Senior Enterprise Engineer

Join Duolingo's Enterprise Engineering team as a Senior Enterprise Engineer. In this role, you will design and implement foundational enterprise services, automate employee lifecycle workflows, and partner with various departments to improve reliability and security. You will have the opportunity to work in New York City or Pittsburgh and enjoy a range of benefits, including medical, dental, and vision coverage, mental health support, and a generous 401(k) plan.

About Duolingo

Design and implement foundational enterprise services, focusing on reliability, security, and scalability.

Responsibilities

• Build and evolve infrastructure-as-code, CI/CD, and configuration-as-code patterns; contribute modules/templates and participate in reviews.
• Automate employee lifecycle workflows, RBAC/SCIM provisioning, and policy enforcement across core systems.
• Hands‑on experience with infrastructure‑as‑code and CI/CD (e.g., Terraform and modern pipelines) to manage identity, SaaS, or internal platform configuration
• Strong background in identity and access management concepts and integrations (SSO/SAML/OIDC, SCIM provisioning, RBAC/ABAC) across enterprise systems
• Operational excellence: you define SLOs, build dashboards/alerts/runbooks, and contribute to on‑call/incident response for internal platforms
• Proficiency building automations and internal tooling that integrate with APIs for systems like Okta, Google Workspace, Slack, and Atlassian
• A track record building reliable joiner/mover/leaver automation at scale, including data pipelines and policy guardrails
• Experience defining and landing engineering standards for internal platforms (module libraries, templates, checkers, documentation patterns) adopted org‑wide
• Prior ownership of MDM/endpoint platforms and fleet‑level automation for security/compliance baselines

Requirements

• Proven impact shipping multi‑stakeholder engineering projects that improve reliability, efficiency, or employee experience at scale
• Clear, concise communication and documentation skills; you collaborate effectively with Security, Finance, Legal, and Platform partners
• The ability to work from or relocate to New York City or Pittsburgh

Preferred

• Experience implementing SaaS governance and license optimization programs with Finance/Procurement and Security partners
• Incident leadership experience for enterprise systems and the ability to drive lasting post‑incident improvements

Pay

USD 162,400 - 219,700