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Senior Enterprise Engineer
Duolingo INC · 🇺🇸 New York, NY; Pittsburgh, PA
Sponsorship verdict
Sponsorship possible
One solid signal, not two — worth applying, and worth asking about sponsorship early.
- Employer is on a government sponsor recordThe US Department of Labor certified 100 H-1B/E-3 labor condition applications for this employer between Oct 2025 and Jun 2026 (latest Jun 2026) — the step every H-1B hire needs first. USCIS also records 5 H-1B approvals in FY2023. Source: LCA disclosure data (US Department of Labor (OFLC)).
- The posting doesn’t mention sponsorshipSilence isn’t a refusal — ask the recruiter before investing much time.
- No salary bar for this routeH-1B has no fixed salary bar: the employer must pay at least the prevailing wage for the role and area. Cap-subject employers enter a lottery weighted by wage level. Source: https://www.federalregister.gov/documents/2025/12/29/2025-23853/weighted-selection-process-for-registrants-and-petitioners-seeking-to-file-cap-subject-h-1b, rules effective 2026-02-27.
- What Duolingo INC paid sponsored hires in similar roles32 certified filings for “Software Engineer, Data Engineering” (Software Developers) in NY: $159k–$209k, median $173k. Most were filed at wage level I (56%) — 1 lottery entry, ≈15% projected selection odds for cap-subject employers. Source: US Department of Labor LCA disclosure data (Oct 2025 – Jun 2026).
- Confirmed live todayWhen a source last listed this job as open.
US H-1B: cap-subject employers enter a lottery weighted by wage level — Level I gets 1 entry, Level IV gets 4 (DHS projected selection odds ≈15% at Level I to ≈61% at Level IV). Universities and non-profit research employers are cap-exempt. The $100,000 fee for new petitions from abroad is currently blocked by a court order (appeal pending).
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The US Department of Labor certified 100 H-1B/E-3 labor condition applications for this employer between Oct 2025 and Jun 2026 (latest Jun 2026) — the step every H-1B hire needs first. USCIS also records 5 H-1B approvals in FY2023. Source: LCA disclosure data (US Department of Labor (OFLC)).
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About the role
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 Senior Enterprise Engineer, you will design and ship high‑impact projects across identity and access, SaaS integrations and governance, device/endpoint platforms, and employee lifecycle automation. You’ll partner closely with Security, Finance, Legal, and Platform to reduce toil through automation, improve reliability, and turn policy into maintainable workflows and code. This role is based in New York City or Pittsburgh. We believe exceptional candidates come from all backgrounds. If you meet only some of the qualifications below, we encourage you to apply! 🧠 You will... • Design and implement foundational enterprise services (e.g., identity and access management, SaaS integrations, MDM/endpoint, internal tooling) with reliability, security, and scalability in mind. • Build and evolve infrastructure‑as‑code, CI/CD, and configuration‑as‑code patterns; contribute modules/templates and participate in reviews to raise the engineering bar across Enterprise Engineering. • Automate employee lifecycle workflows (onboarding, transfers, offboarding), RBAC/SCIM provisioning, and policy enforcement across core systems like Okta, Google Workspace, Slack, and Atlassian. • Define and measure SLOs for internal services; create 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—codifying processes into auditable, testable workflows. • Deliver cross‑functional initiatives end‑to‑end: author clear specs, align stakeholders, de‑risk launches, and land durable outcomes with strong documentation. ✅ You have... • Proven impact shipping multi‑stakeholder engineering projects that improve reliability, efficiency, or employee experience at scale. • 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. • Proficiency building automations and internal tooling that integrate with APIs for systems like Okta, Google Workspace, Slack, and Atlassian. • Operational excellence: you define SLOs, build dashboards/alerts/runbooks, and contribute to on‑call/incident response for internal platforms. • 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. ⭐ Exceptional candidates will have... • Experience implementing SaaS governance and licen