9 months ago
Kyiv, UkraineStaff+
Responsibilities
- Provide technical leadership across platform squads through architecture decisions, engineering standards, paved paths, and reusable patterns.
- Lead initiatives improving the path from code to production, including CI foundations, delivery workflows, environments, and self-service entry points.
- Drive observability, dashboards, alerting, runbooks, failure recovery, and incident readiness improvements.
- Investigate reliability and performance issues through root cause analysis, remediation, automation, and postmortem follow-through.
- Build and operate critical platform services and tooling for production 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
- Strong track record as a Staff, Principal, or equivalent senior technical leader 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, 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 prevention.
- Ability to communicate complex technical 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 with equity and leave allowance.
- Access to free mental health support platforms.
- Opportunity to influence language learning and teaching for learners and tutors globally.
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.