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Senior Platform Software Engineer

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1 month ago
London, United KingdomSenior

Responsibilities

  • Own the availability and performance of mission-critical services and build automation to prevent recurring problems.
  • Improve platform scalability, observability, alerting, and infrastructure efficiency.
  • Build tooling and core platform services that improve developer productivity and accelerate software delivery.
  • Design, build, maintain, and troubleshoot high-traffic distributed systems and storage systems.
  • Practice sustainable incident response and conduct blameless postmortems.
  • Collaborate with product teams on technical issues and new system designs.
  • Apply FinOps practices and participate in the team’s paid on-call rotation.
  • Use agentic AI thoughtfully in engineering workflows, including quality gates, safety nets, and AI-native alternatives.

Requirements

  • Approximately 8 years of experience designing, building, maintaining, and troubleshooting high-traffic distributed systems.
  • 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.
  • Ability to use agentic AI beyond code generation while applying judgment to architecture, business logic, and security.
  • Business-oriented, data-driven approach and strong communication skills.
  • Minimum C1 English level.

Benefits

  • Generous monthly allowance for lessons on Preply.com.
  • Learning and Development budget, including time off for self-development.
  • Competitive financial package with equity and leave allowance.
  • Opportunity to impact learners and tutors across more than 175 countries.
  • The role includes a paid on-call rotation.

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