Overview 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 integral scale and contribute to a mission-driven ed-tech company.

Compensaciones / Beneficioslessons allowanceLearning & Development budget and time offequityhealth insurancerelocation package to Barcelonamental health support platforms ResponsabilidadesProvide technical leadership across platform squads including architecture decisions and reusable patternsLead cross-squad initiatives to improve code-to-production flow, CI foundations, and self-service entry pointsDrive operability improvements: SLOs, dashboards, alerting standards, runbooks,



and incident readinessRoot-cause analysis and remediation for high-impact reliability issues, with automation to prevent recurrenceBuild and operate critical platform services with strong engineering disciplineMentor senior engineers and tech leads to raise design quality and execution standardsUse data to guide priorities, measure outcomes, and drive durable improvementsParticipate in on-call rotations and incident response to improve execution and prevention Requisitos principalesSenior technical leader track record delivering cross-team impactHands-on experience with designing and maintaining high-traffic distributed systemsStrong Python / Django engineering skills with production-grade toolingExperience with DevOps and cloud infrastructure (preferably AWS)Strong CI/CD, build/test reliability, and developer workflow expertiseFoundations in reliability engineering: observability, alerting, incident responseClear written communication and technical influenceWillingness to participate in paid on-call rotationscollaborative mindsetstrong written communicationability to influence and mentorPython / Djangodistributed systems designDevOps and cloud (AWS)

📌 Staff Platform Engineer (Barcelona)
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📍 Barcelona