# Staff Security Engineer

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 As a Staff Security Engineer, you will shape and deliver Duolingo’s security strategy, safeguarding our learners, employees, systems, and services. You’ll identify the highest-impact security problems, lead complex initiatives from proposal through production, and build durable security capabilities across our applications and cloud infrastructure. Working across Engineering, Product, Legal, Finance, and IT, you’ll make practical risk decisions, establish

- **Id**: 3994521
- **Url**: <https://alion.io/job/duolingo-staff-security-engineer>
- **Role**: Security
- **Role family**: Security
- **Seniority**: staff
- **Work mode**: on_site
- **Hiring geo confidence**: structured
- **Locations**: New York, United States
- **Countries**: US
- **Hiring countries total**: 0
- **Visa sponsorship**: no
- **Relocation package**: no
- **Has equity**: yes
- **Status**: live
- **First seen at**: 2026-11-09T21:11:46Z
- **Employer posted date**: 2026-11-09
- **Last verified at**: 2026-11-10T00:44:25Z
- **Board verified**: yes
- **Days open**: 0
- **Description format**: text
- **Description chars**: 6320
- **Description truncated**: no
- **Benefits**: Equity
- **Relocation offered**: yes
- **Industries**: Language Learning, E-learning

## Company

- **Id**: 19161
- **Name**: Duolingo
- **Domain**: duolingo.com
- **Url**: <https://alion.io/company/duolingo-blog>
- **Size band**: 501-1000
- **Is staffing agency**: no
- **Employer type**: direct
- **Is intermediary**: no
- **Ats vendor**: Greenhouse

### Truth index

- **Grade**: B
- **Score**: 84
- **Open postings**: 11
- **Ghost share**: 0
- **Stale share**: 0.636
- **Repost share**: 0
- **Time to fill p50 days**: 56
- **Computed at**: 2026-11-09T06:03:00Z

## Salary

- **Min**: 204000
- **Max**: 306000
- **Currency**: USD
- **Period**: year
- **Usd annual**: 306000

## Technologies

- **AWS** — Optional: no
- **CI/CD** — Optional: no
- **GCP** — Optional: no
- **Threat Modeling** — Optional: no

## Trust

- **Level**: ok
- **Days open**: 0

## Requirements

- **Manages managers**: no
- **Security clearance**: no

## Lifecycle

- Event: open; At: 2026-11-10T00:44:25Z

## Visa

- Country: US; Licensed sponsor: yes; Adverts offering sponsorship 24m: 0; Sanctioned now: no; Evidence: H-1B filings in 12 months: 104 · green card filings: 19; Filings 12m: 104

## Liveness

- **Score**: 86
- **Band**: hot
- **Label**: Hiring now
- **P open**: 1
- **P active**: 0.86
- **P room**: 1
- **Age days**: 0
- **Expected fill days**: 56
- **Reasons**: conf:1, win:early
- **Computed at**: 2026-11-10T02:13:57Z

## Pay

- **Stated usd annual**: 306000
- **Is top pay**: yes

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