Senior Platform Engineering Manager
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Job Location:
Pittsburgh, PA - USA
Monthly Salary:
Not Disclosed
Posted on:
14 hours ago
Vacancies:
1 Vacancy
Job Summary
Our mission at Duolingo is to develop the best education in the world and make it universally available. Its a big mission and thats where you come in!
At Duolingo youll join a team that cares about finding innovative solutions to complex technical problems running countless experiments (300 at a time!) with our massive user base to make data-driven decisions and educating our users and employees alike. Youll have limitless learning opportunities mentorship and collaboration with world-class minds and a variety of projects with large scopes while doing work thats both fun and meaningful.
Join our life-changing mission to develop education for our half a billion (and growing!) learners around the world.
About the role
As a Senior Platform Engineering Manager at Duolingo you will own mission-critical infrastructure projects from end to end contribute to our technical strategy and lead a team of world-class engineers.
You will lead teams that build the core networking storage and foundational tooling for Duolingos infrastructure across multiple cloud providers. You will define and drive a multi-year strategy for scaling the developer experience on our cloud infrastructure.
:brain: As a team lead you will...
- Lead multiple teams and collaborate with peers across the Platform pillar to build an empowering developer interface for product and platform engineers across Duolingo.
- Own the planning execution and success of projects that directly improve the stability performance and cost of our infrastructure and our top-line business metrics.
- Partner closely with product engineering to identify high-ROI platform investments; align stakeholders remove roadblocks and ensure impact.
- Set clear expectations around engineering quality and promote practices that enhance code quality scalability and maintainability.
:check: As a role manager you will...
- Develop your team deeply understanding each engineers strengths and career goals and proactively providing mentorship and stretch opportunities to help them grow their impact.
- Set clear expectations and hold a high bar for performance regularly providing candid feedback addressing challenges decisively and maintaining a supportive environment where engineers feel valued engaged and empowered.
- Provide clarity and alignment transparently communicating the why behind decisions thoughtfully guiding your team through changes and ensuring everyone understands their role in achieving team and company goals.
:star: You have...
- Develop your team deeply understanding each engineers strengths and career goals and proactively providing mentorship and stretch opportunities to help them grow their impact.
- Set clear expectations and hold a high bar for performance regularly providing candid feedback addressing challenges decisively and maintaining a supportive environment where engineers feel valued engaged and empowered.
- Provide clarity and alignment transparently communicating the why behind decisions thoughtfully guiding your team through changes and ensuring everyone understands their role in achieving team and company goals.
We post a multi-level salary range for all of our roles.
This is not inclusive of the rest of our awesome portfolio that includes equity compensation and world-class benefits. Our salary ranges are the same for all US locations. Your recruiter can share more details about the range for a specific level during the hiring process. The actual salary within the range is determined by many factors including but not limited to skills experience education and internal equity.
Take a peek at how we care for our employees holistic well-being with our benefitshere.
We will do everything we can within reason to make sure that your interview takes place in an environment that fairly and accurately assesses your skills. If you need assistance or accommodation please contact.
Duolingo is proud to be an Equal Employment Opportunity employer. We do not discriminate based upon race religion color national origin gender (including pregnancy childbirth or related medical conditions) sexual orientation gender identity gender expression age status as a protected veteran status as an individual with a disability or other applicable legally protected characteristics.
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Required Experience:
Manager
Key Skills
- Data Center Experience
- ArcGIS
- Cloud Infrastructure
- Construction Estimating
- Go
- Mathcad
- React
- Redux
- AWS
- Software Development
- Auto Estimating
- Distributed Systems
About Company
Duolingo is the world's most popular way to learn a language. It's 100% free, fun and science-based. Practice online on duolingo.com or on the apps!
