- New York City, New York, United States
- On-site
- Full-time · Senior
- $204K–$306K per year
As a Staff Security Engineer, you will shape and deliver Duolingo’s security strategy, safeguarding our learners, employees, systems, and services.
Compensation
Salary Range: $204,000—$306,000 USD
Responsibilities
- Set technical direction for security across Duolingo’s applications, cloud infrastructure, and engineering systems.
- Lead complex, multi-team security initiatives from problem definition and design through implementation, measurement, and ongoing ownership.
- Design and build scalable security services, controls, and automation that prevent, detect, and remediate risks with minimal manual effort.
- Partner with engineering teams to threat model systems, review architecture and code, prioritize risks, and deliver practical mitigations.
- Strengthen security across the software-development lifecycle, including secrets management, dependency security, vulnerability management, and CI/CD controls.
Requirements
- Nice to have: AWS
- Nice to have: GCP
- Nice to have: AI-assisted tooling
Skills
Benefits
- holistic well-being
- equity compensation



