Preply

Staff Platform Engineer

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7 months ago
Barcelona, SpainStaff+

Responsibilities

  • Provide technical leadership across platform squads through architecture decisions, engineering standards, paved paths, and reusable patterns.
  • Lead cross-engineering initiatives involving CI foundations, delivery workflows, environments, and self-service platform entry points.
  • Improve operability through SLO practices, dashboards, alerting standards, runbooks, failure recovery patterns, and incident readiness.
  • Investigate and remediate reliability and performance issues through root cause analysis, automation, and postmortem follow-through.
  • Build and operate critical platform services and tooling for production traffic and internal users.
  • Mentor senior engineers and technical 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

  • Demonstrated experience 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 reliability engineering foundations, including observability, alerting, incident response, capacity planning, and automation-driven prevention.
  • 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

  • Generous monthly allowance for Preply lessons plus a Learning & Development budget and self-development time off.
  • Competitive financial package including equity, leave allowance, and health insurance.
  • Attractive relocation package for candidates joining the Barcelona Hub from outside Barcelona.
  • Access to free mental health support platforms.
  • Access to Gympass-partnered wellness and gym centers throughout Spain.
  • Opportunity to support learners and tutors through Preply’s global language-learning platform.

Tech Stack

AWSDjangoPython

Categories

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About Preply

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