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Senior Platform Software Engineer

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8 months ago
Barcelona, SpainSenior

Responsibilities

  • Own the availability and performance of mission-critical services and build automation to prevent recurring problems.
  • Improve system scalability, observability, and alerting.
  • Build platform tooling that accelerates software development and enables engineers to ship safely and quickly.
  • Practice sustainable incident response and conduct blameless postmortems.
  • Collaborate with product teams on technical issues and new system designs.
  • Improve the quality and credibility of the team’s technical execution.
  • Apply FinOps practices to infrastructure decisions.
  • Participate in the team’s paid on-call rotation.

Requirements

  • Approximately eight years of experience designing, building, maintaining, and troubleshooting high-traffic distributed systems.
  • Hands-on expertise using agentic AI to enhance engineering workflows, establish quality gates and safety nets, and propose AI-native alternatives while applying judgment to architecture, business logic, and security.
  • Proficient software engineering skills, with Python preferred.
  • Experience with at least one major public cloud and its services and infrastructure, preferably AWS.
  • Experience implementing observability and alerting.
  • Willingness to participate in paid on-call rotations.
  • Business orientation and a data-driven approach.
  • Strong communication skills and minimum C1 English proficiency.

Benefits

  • Open, collaborative, dynamic, and diverse company culture.
  • Monthly allowance for Preply lessons, a Learning & Development budget, and time off for self-development.
  • Financial package including equity, leave allowance, and health insurance.
  • Relocation package for candidates joining the Barcelona Hub from elsewhere.
  • Access to free mental health support platforms.
  • Access to Gympass-partnered wellness and gym centers throughout Spain.

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