Senior Platform Engineering Manager

Duolingo • Pittsburgh, PA

3d

About The Position

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.
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.

Requirements

• Develop your team, deeply understanding each engineer’s 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.

Responsibilities

• 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.
• Develop your team, deeply understanding each engineer’s 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.

What This Job Offers

• Job Type: Full-time
• Career Level: Senior
• Education Level: No Education Listed
• Number of Employees: 501-1,000 employees