Staff Platform Engineer for language learning

Preply creates language-learning experiences that connect learners with tutors worldwide. Its platform supports personalized learning journeys, AI-enhanced education, and scalable teaching across more than 180 countries.

• Provide technical leadership across platform squads through architecture decisions, engineering standards, paved paths, and reusable patterns;
• Lead cross-squad and cross-engineering initiatives improving the path from code to production, including CI foundations, delivery workflows, environments, and self-service entry points;
• Drive operability improvements through SLO thinking, dashboards, alerting standards, runbooks, failure recovery patterns, and incident readiness;
• Investigate high-impact reliability and performance problems through root cause analysis, remediation design, recurrence-prevention automation, and postmortem follow-through;
• Build and operate critical platform services and tooling for production traffic and internal users;
• Mentor senior engineers and tech leads, improve design quality, and raise execution standards across the tribe;
• Use data to guide priorities and measure delivery health, reliability signals, adoption, and satisfaction;
• Participate in on-call and major incident response, leading by example and improving incident execution and prevention.

• Strong track record as a senior technical leader at Staff, Principal, or equivalent level, delivering cross-team impact;
• Extensive hands-on experience designing, building, maintaining, and troubleshooting high-traffic distributed systems in production;
• Deep experience with DevOps and cloud infrastructure, preferably AWS;
• Knowledge of networking basics, identity and access patterns, infrastructure automation, and operational best practices;
• Experience with CI/CD systems, build and test reliability, artifact management, and developer workflows;
• Strong foundations in reliability engineering, including observability, alerting, incident response, capacity planning, and automation-driven prevention;
• Ability to articulate complex tradeoffs, drive alignment through RFCs, and influence technical direction across teams;
• Comfortable writing production-quality tooling through AI-assisted coding.

• Relocation to Barcelona or London is optional;
• Competitive financial package with equity, leave allowance, and health insurance;
• Monthly allowance for lessons on Preply.com;
• Learning & Development budget and time off for self-development;
• Free mental health support platforms.