# Senior Site Reliability Engineer

**Company:** [Duolingo](https://hotfix.jobs/companies/duolingo)
**Location:** Pittsburgh, PA
**Role:** DevOps / SRE
**Salary:** $183k – $247k/yr
**Experience:** 5+ years
**Skills:** Site Reliability Engineering, DevOps, Distributed Systems, Java, Kotlin, Python, Go, Docker, Kubernetes, Mesos, Nomad, Incident Response, Dynamo, MySQL, Postgres
**Posted:** 2026-09-04

> Senior Site Reliability Engineer responsible for improving the reliability, scalability, and operational performance of large-scale distributed systems. Requires 5+ years in SRE or DevOps, programming experience, and familiarity with containerization and orchestration technologies.

## Job Description

## Responsibilities
- Collaborate with internal teams to identify instability in distributed systems and drive operational excellence.
- Support core infrastructure by understanding, diagnosing, and debugging systems in production.
- Provide system design consulting, develop software platforms and frameworks, and conduct launch reviews and root cause analyses.
- Maintain and document sustainable postmortem and incident-response practices.
- Advocate for and implement changes that improve reliability, scalability, and engineering velocity.
- Reduce operational toil through iterative development of tooling and automation.
- Collaborate with engineering teams to release new features and develop deep expertise in company services.

## Requirements
- 5+ years of experience in site reliability engineering or DevOps for a product with millions of users.
- Experience identifying and solving issues in large-scale distributed systems.
- Experience with Java, Kotlin, Python, or Go.
- Understanding of containerization toolsets and container orchestration technologies such as Docker, Mesos, Kubernetes, or Nomad.

## Nice-to-haves
- Experience improving automation and tooling to reduce service-maintenance toil.
- Experience driving improvements to incident-response processes.
- Experience assessing reliability and troubleshooting Dynamo, MySQL, and/or PostgreSQL databases.

## Compensation
- Base salary range: $182,800–$247,300 USD.
- Equity compensation supplements the base salary.

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