As Staff Platform Engineer, you provide technical leadership across platform squads to raise the quality and reliability of Preply’s internal platforms. You’ll shape direction for infrastructure, runtime, data, developer and application platforms while doing hands-on work to deliver production changes. You drive operability, SRE practices, and scalable tooling, guiding engineers and mentoring leads to raise execution standards. You’ll work in a fast-moving, cross-functional environment that values open collaboration and measurable impact. This role offers a unique chance to influence platform reliability at global scale and contribute to a mission-driven ed-tech company.
Compensaciones / Ventajas
- lessons allowance
- Learning & Development budget and time off
- equity
- health insurance
- relocation package to Barcelona
- mental health support platforms
Responsabilidades
- Provide technical leadership across platform squads including architecture decisions and reusable patterns
- Lead cross-squad initiatives to improve code-to-production flow, CI foundations, and self-service entry points
- Drive operability improvements: SLOs, dashboards, alerting standards, runbooks, and incident readiness
- Root-cause analysis and remediation for high-impact reliability issues, with automation to prevent recurrence
- Build and operate critical platform services with strong engineering discipline
- Mentor senior engineers and tech leads to raise design quality and execution standards
- Use data to guide priorities, measure outcomes, and drive durable improvements
- Participate in on-call rotations and incident response to improve execution and prevention
Requisitos principales
- Senior technical leader track record delivering cross-team impact
- Hands-on experience with designing and maintaining high-traffic distributed systems
- Strong Python / Django engineering skills with production-grade tooling
- Experience with DevOps and cloud infrastructure (preferably AWS)
- Strong CI/CD, build/test reliability, and developer workflow expertise
- Foundations in reliability engineering: observability, alerting, incident response
- Clear written communication and technical influence
- Willingness to participate in paid on-call rotations
- collaborative mindset
- strong written communication
- ability to influence and mentor
- Python / Django
- distributed systems design
- DevOps and cloud (AWS)