Senior Backend Software Engineer

• The Observability team builds infrastructure and tools that give engineers confidence and clarity at Duolingo scale

• We create monitoring, alerting, and debugging experiences that help teams ship faster and respond to incidents effectively

• In this team, you’ll build instrumentation frameworks, deploy telemetry infrastructure, design dashboards, and connect signals to catch issues before they impact learners

• Collaborate on software projects with product design and backend aspects

• Develop, release, and maintain backend services and/or infrastructure

• Lead individual project priorities, milestones, and ensure we’re always shipping

Benefits

• Medical, dental, and vision for employees as well as eligible partners and dependents

• Mental health benefits such as therapy sessions and coaching to support you to be your best self

• Fertility benefits to support your family planning journey

• Fully paid parental and adoption leave

• Fully paid subscription to Care.com and paid backup days for dependents and your fur family

• 401(k) with generous match and immediate vesting

• 20 days of paid time off, with two additional weeks off for winter break

• First-time home buyer bonus (in Pittsburgh)

• Competitive salaries and equity

• Yearly stipend for professional development

• Transportation reimbursement for however you get to work

• Lunch prepared daily by our in-house chefs

• Annual international retreat for all full-time employees

• Monthly events celebrating our team and their amazing work

• On-site gym and massages

• Game room for taking brain breaks- We’re looking for engineers passionate about developer experience and reliability

• Experience programming in Java, Python, or Kotlin

• Solid understanding of one or more database technologies

• A Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science or a related technical field

• Strong competencies in data structures, algorithms, and software design

• Industry experience building high-traffic APIs using public cloud providers

• Experience with industry observability technology, such as OpenTelemetry, Grafana, Prometheus, or DataDog