TL;DR

Staff Enterprise Engineer: Building and operating internal platforms, identity systems, and automation that power how Duos work every day with an accent on modern engineering practices—infra as code, CI/CD, and internal tools. Focus on SaaS governance, license optimization, and risk controls.

Location: New York City or Pittsburgh

Salary: $181,600 — $272,400 USD

Company

Duolingo’s mission is to develop the best education in the world and make it universally available.

What you will do

  • Lead design and implementation of foundational enterprise platforms and services with reliability, security, and scalability in mind.
  • Drive infrastructure‑as‑code, CI/CD, and configuration‑as‑code practices across Enterprise Engineering.
  • Architect and automate employee lifecycle workflows, RBAC/SCIM provisioning, and policy enforcement across core systems.
  • Establish and measure SLOs for internal services; build dashboards, alerts, and runbooks; participate in incident response and on‑call for enterprise platforms.
  • Partner with Security, Finance, Legal, and Procurement to implement SaaS governance, license optimization, and risk controls.
  • Lead cross‑functional technical initiatives end‑to-end: author specs, align stakeholders, sequence deliverables, de‑risk launches, and land durable outcomes.

Requirements

  • Demonstrated staff‑level impact leading large, multi‑stakeholder engineering projects to completion with measurable reliability or efficiency improvements.
  • Deep hands‑on experience with infrastructure‑as‑code and CI/CD to manage identity, SaaS, or internal platform configuration.
  • Strong background in identity and access management concepts and integrations across enterprise systems.
  • Proficiency building automations and internal tooling that integrate with APIs for systems like Okta, Google Workspace, Slack, and Atlassian.
  • Operational excellence: define SLOs, create dashboards/alerts/runbooks, and contribute to on‑call/incident response for internal platforms.
  • Clear, concise communication and documentation skills; ability to influence across Security, Finance, Legal, and Platform engineering partners.
  • The ability to work from or relocate to New York City or Pittsburgh.

Nice to have

  • Experience implementing SaaS governance and license optimization programs in partnership with Finance/Procurement and Security.
  • Track record building reliable employee‑lifecycle automation at scale, including data pipelines and policy guardrails.
  • Experience defining and landing engineering standards for internal platforms that are adopted org‑wide.
  • Prior ownership of MDM/endpoint platforms and fleet‑level automation for security/compliance baselines.
  • Incident leadership experience for enterprise systems and the ability to drive post‑incident improvements that stick.

Culture & Benefits

  • Employees' holistic well-being is cared for with the provided benefits.
  • Duolingo is proud to be an Equal Employment Opportunity employer.