Duolingo has an opening for a Platform Engineer II, based in New York or Pennsylvania. The job is full-time and office based. The advertised pay is $153,000 to $207,000 a year.
The description below comes from Duolingo's own job posting.
Our mission at Duolingo is to develop the best education in the world and make it universally available. It’s a big mission, and that’s where you come in!
At Duolingo, you’ll 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. You’ll have limitless learning opportunities, mentorship and collaboration with world-class minds, and a variety of projects with large scopes - while doing work that’s both fun and meaningful.
Join our life-changing mission to develop education for our half a billion (and growing!) learners around the world.
As a Platform Engineer on the Compute team, you’ll improve how engineers build and run services, helping ensure our compute platform is reliable at scale for our learners and fellow Duo engineers.
The Compute team builds and operates the core compute platform that powers our applications. We build paved roads (self-service platform primitives, templates, and tooling) and we operate them so product engineers can focus on shipping features with confidence.
The offered salary is dependent upon several factors, including work experience, skills, and internal peer comparisons. The posted range is subject to change in the future. For this role, base salary is supplemented by equity compensation. We encourage you to talk with your recruiter for more information related to compensation for this role!
Salary Range: $153,000 to $207,000 USD
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Duolingo advertises $153,000 to $207,000 a year for this role.
No, it is an on-site job in New York or Pennsylvania.
The posting mentions a bachelor's degree or equivalent and skills such as Kubernetes, Terraform, AWS and Azure. Read the full description above for the complete list.
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Duolingo published the role on September 2, 2026. We check the employer's job board every day and take this page down when the role closes, so if you can read it, the job was still listed at our last check.
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