153K–207K USD / year
Platform Engineer
DevOpsWorkplace — New York, NY
Published on 2026-09-18
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About this role
As a Platform Engineer on the Compute team, you'll enhance how engineers build and run services and ensure the reliability of the compute platform. This role involves building core compute primitives, improving deployment processes, and raising operational standards.
About the company
Duolingo is a language-learning platform that offers a variety of courses and tools to help users learn new languages through interactive exercises and innovative technologies. The company also develops educational products like Duolingo Math and employs a range of professionals to enhance its services.
The team
Compute team
Stack
KubernetesGitOpsTerraformCloudFormation
What you'll do
- Build and operate core compute primitives
- Improve the delivery pipeline from commit to production
- Define SLOs and build dashboards/alerts
- Enable effective self-service of platform capabilities
What we're looking for
- Strong problem-solving skills
- Experience with distributed systems fundamentals
- Experience with production systems
- Familiarity with CI/CD tools and infrastructure management
Nice to have
- Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science or related field
- Experience managing production infrastructure on cloud platforms
- Exposure to multi-cluster or multi-region architectures
- Knowledge of service mesh/zero-trust networking patterns