We help people discover the magic of the perfect tutor, craft a personalized learning journey, and stay motivated to keep growing. Our approach is human-led, tech-enabled - and it's creating real impact. Every Preply lesson sparks change, fuels ambition, and drives progress that matters.

The SRE team unites infrastructure, engineering and business to ensure great synergy that helps Preply succeed. Develop core services & tooling powering our Platform.

- We work in small teams, thus you will be able to influence system design and contribute a lot in the company's growth. We promote self-direction to work on meaningful projects, while we also strive to create an environment that provides the support and mentorship needed to learn and grow.

We have diverse technical challenges that will allow you to develop your skills across the stack - sometimes we write about them in our Engineering Blog! Please, also visit our Tech Radar and our YouTube channel to learn more about the technologies we use at Preply!

The Database Platform Engineer at Preply is a database specialist who helps run and evolve our databases in an environment of continuous growth and change, where we need to meet operational stability, scalability and feature development. Our databases are mission-critical and directly impact our product uptime. You will bring deep expertise on databases, help us improve our operations, improve scalability and collaborate with engineering teams to guide them on evolving Preply together.

- Own the availability and performance of mission-critical databases and build automation to prevent problems recurrence.
- Build tooling to improve our platform and accelerate the overall software development.




- Collaborate with product teams to help them tackle technical issues and design new systems - bringing a unique perspective from the database side.
- Strengthen credibility with the quality of the team's technical execution.
- Experience with operating PostgreSQL at high traffic in Master/Replica setups, even multi-region.
- Experience with distributed systems in the cloud.
- DB Capacity Planning & Scaling strategies, Backups and Disaster Recovery.
- Performance optimisation and DB tuning.
- Infrastructure proficiency to be self-sufficient in managing our database infrastructure in the cloud (preferably AWS).
- DB monitoring and troubleshooting.
- Minimum B2 English level.

Django ORMs or any other ORM

- RDS Aurora
- Python and Bash

Why you'll love it at Preply

- com, Learning & Development budget, and time off for your self-development;
- A competitive financial package with equity, leave allowance, and health insurance;
- We offer an attractive relocation package to join us in our Preply Barcelona Hub;
- We do it for learners - For both Preply and tutors, learners are why we do what we do. Keep perfecting - To create an outstanding customer experience, we focus on simplicity, smoothness, and enjoyment, continually perfecting it as every detail matters.
- Now is the time - In a fast-paced world, it matters how quickly we act. Growth mindset - We proactively seek growth opportunities and believe today's best performance becomes tomorrow's starting point. Raise the bar - We raise our performance standards continuously, alongside each new hire and promotion. Challenge, disagree and commit - We value open and candid communication, even when we don't fully agree. We believe that the presence of different opinions and viewpoints is a key ingredient for our success as a multicultural Ed-Tech company. Senior Platform Database Engineer (Barcelona)

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📌 Senior PostgreSQL Database Engineer (Barcelona)
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📍 Barcelona