4 months ago
London, United KingdomStaff+
Responsibilities
- Provide technical leadership across platform squads through architecture decisions, engineering standards, paved paths, and reusable patterns.
- Lead cross-engineering initiatives that improve CI foundations, delivery workflows, environments, and self-service capabilities.
- Drive operability improvements including SLOs, dashboards, alerting standards, runbooks, failure recovery, and incident readiness.
- Investigate and resolve high-impact reliability and performance problems through root cause analysis, remediation, 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 while raising design and execution standards.
- Use delivery, reliability, adoption, and satisfaction metrics to guide priorities and measure outcomes.
- Participate in on-call and major incident response and improve incident prevention over time.
Requirements
- Strong track record as a senior technical leader at Staff, Principal, or equivalent level with 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, including networking, identity and access patterns, infrastructure automation, and operational practices.
- Experience with CI/CD systems, build and test reliability, artifact management, and developer workflows.
- Strong foundations in observability, alerting, incident response, capacity planning, and automation-driven reliability improvement.
- Ability to communicate complex tradeoffs, drive alignment through RFCs, and influence technical direction across teams.
- Comfort writing production-quality tooling through AI-assisted coding.
Benefits
- Monthly allowance for lessons on Preply.com.
- Learning and Development budget and time off for self-development.
- Competitive financial package including equity, leave allowance, and health insurance.
- Access to free mental health support platforms.
- Opportunity to shape language learning for learners and tutors across 175 countries.
About Preply
Preply builds an online marketplace that connects learners with human tutors for live language lessons, supported by AI tools. Consumers book 1:1 sessions and ongoing courses, while organizations use Preply Business for corporate language training; revenue comes from commissions and subscriptions. Founded in 2012 and privately held, Preply operates globally with 100,000+ tutors teaching 90+ languages.