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...
Duolingo’s Enterprise Engineering team builds and operates the internal platforms, identity systems, and automation that power how Duos work every day. We apply modern engineering practices—infra as code, CI/CD, and internal tools—to deliver secure, reliable, and scalable employee experiences. As a Staff Enterprise Engineer, you will lead high‑impact initiatives across identity and access, SaaS governance, device/endpoint platforms, and employee lifecycle automation. You’ll partner closely with Security, Finance, Legal, and Platform peers to set technical direction, reduce toil through automation, and raise the operational bar for internal systems at scale. This role is based in New York City or Pittsburgh.
🧠 You will...
- Lead design and implementation of foundational enterprise platforms and services (e.g., identity and access management, SaaS integrations, MDM/endpoint, internal tooling) with reliability, security, and scalability in mind.
- Drive infrastructure‑as‑code, CI/CD, and configuration‑as‑code practices across Enterprise Engineering; own standards, reviews, and reusable modules/templates.
- Architect and automate employee lifecycle workflows (onboarding, transfers, offboarding), RBAC/SCIM provisioning, and policy enforcement across core systems (Okta, Google Workspace, Slack, Atlassian, etc.).
- 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—turning policy into maintainable, testable code and workflows.
- Lead cross‑functional technical initiatives end‑to‑end: author specs, align stakeholders, sequence deliverables, de‑risk launches, and land durable outcomes.
- Mentor engineers across the team; elevate documentation quality so internal tools and jobs are discoverable, well‑maintained, and easy to use.
✅ You have...
- 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 (e.g., Terraform and modern pipelines) to manage identity, SaaS, or internal platform configuration.
- Strong background in identity and access management concepts and integrations (e.g., SSO/SAML/OIDC, SCIM provisioning, RBAC/ABAC) across enterprise systems.
- Proficiency building automations and internal tooling (scripts/services/jobs) 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.
⭐ Exceptional candidates will 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 (joiner/mover/leaver), including data pipelines and policy guardrails.
- Experience defining and landing engineering standards for internal platforms (module libraries, templates, checkers, docs patterns) 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.
We post a multi-level salary range for all of our roles.
This is not inclusive of the rest of our awesome portfolio that includes equity compensation and world-class benefits. Our salary ranges are the same for all US locations. Your recruiter can share more details about the range for a specific level during the hiring process. The actual salary within the range is determined by many factors including but not limited to, skills, experience, education, and internal equity.
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What We Do
Duolingo is a language-learning education platform that offers 98 total courses across nearly 40 distinct languages. Duolingo is the world’s most popular way to learn a language. Our mission is to develop the best education in the world and make it universally available. Some of our products include: 1. Duolingo: The free, fun, and effective way to learn a language! 2. DET (Duolingo English Test): A modern language proficiency tool designed for today's international students and institutions. It offers an English proficiency score, video interview, and writing sample in an accessible, efficient, and secure testing experience. 3. Duolingo Math: An app that can make math be fun. For everyone. Students can focus on elementary math, which covers classroom topics, or adults can focus on brain training, which strengthens mental math skills and covers more advanced topics. 4. Duolingo ABC: An educational learning app that offers immersive lessons to teach preschool to second grade kids reading fundamentals. Founded in 2011 by Luis von Ahn and Severin Hacker, Duolingo is the most downloaded education app in the history of the App Store and in 2019 became the top-grossing education app worldwide. The app has been awarded Apple's iPhone App of the Year and Android's Best of the Best. Learning a new language used to be expensive; we believe it should be free. Over 1.2 billion people are learning a second language and most of them are learning English to improve their lives. Learning a new language is hard; we believe it can be fun. We use bite-sized lessons that feel like playing a game to keep our learners motivated. With over 500 million learners we have unprecedented data insights on how people learn. Our teams of language learning scientists, machine learning engineers, and AI experts use this data to constantly improve our effectiveness. We’re building a future in which the highest-quality education is accessible to all. Duolingo has been named: 2022 Fast Company’s Best Workplaces for Innovators 2022 Fast Company 10 Most Innovative Education Company 2021 Forbes Best Startup Employers 2020, 2018, 2017, 2013 Most Innovative Company by Fast Company 2020 Best Machine Learning Startups for by Glassdoor 2018 Inc. Best Places to Work 2018 Entrepreneur Top Company Culture List University Program Awards: 2022 Handshake Early Talent Award 2022 Untapped Top Internship Programs 2022 OneReq Internship Program Trailblazer Award
Why Work With Us
Our global team works together to make language learning fun, free, and effective for anyone who wants to learn, wherever they are. Best of all, you get to work alongside Duo (literally)!
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