Duolingo
Senior Platform Engineering Manager
Edtech.com's Summary
- Lead multiple teams building networking, storage, and foundational tooling across cloud infrastructure.
- Own planning and execution of projects to improve infrastructure stability, performance, and cost-efficiency.
- Collaborate with product engineering to identify and prioritize high-impact platform investments.
- Promote engineering best practices to maintain code quality, scalability, and maintainability.
- Provide mentorship, career development, and performance management for engineering team members.
- Communicate clearly to align teams with company goals and drive transparency behind decisions.
- Technical leadership in multi-cloud infrastructure strategy and developer experience scaling.
- Salary range from $200,000 to $300,000 USD annually.
- Part of Duolingo's Engineering division focused on platform solutions.
- Serves a global education platform with over half a billion users.
Senior Platform Engineering Manager Full Description
Our mission at Duolingo is to develop the best education in the world and make it universally available. Itâs a big mission, and thatâs where you come in!
At Duolingo, youâll 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. Youâll have limitless learning opportunities, mentorship, and collaboration with world-class minds, and a variety of projects with large scopes â while doing work thatâs 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 Duolingo's 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 engineerâs 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 âwhyâ 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 engineerâs 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 âwhyâ 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 benefits here.
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 accommodations@duolingo.com.
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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