Senior Backend Software Engineer

About this role

• 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
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