2 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.
