OverviewAs a Software Platform Engineer at Preply, you will own the availability and performance of mission-critical services while expanding platform tooling and automation.

You will work closely with cross-functional teams to improve scalability, observability, and incident response, shaping core services used by production traffic.

The role blends software engineering with cloud infrastructure in a dynamic, supportive environment that values growth andMentorship.

You'll contribute to a high-uptime, cost-conscious platform that powers learning experiences across 175+ countries.

Compensaciones / BeneficiosGenerous monthly lesson allowance

Learning & Development budget

Competitive package with equity

Leave allowance

ResponsabilidadesOwn availability and performance of mission-critical services and automate issue prevention

Improve scalability, observability, and alerting of the system

Build tooling to enhance the platform and accelerate software development

Practice blameless postmortems and sustain incident response





Collaborate with product teams to tackle technical issues and design new systems

Strengthen the team's credibility through high-quality technical execution

Follow FinOps practices

Participate in on-call rotation across the team

Requisitos principalesExtensive experience (~8 years) in designing, building, maintaining and troubleshooting high-traffic distributed systems

Proficient software engineering skills with strong coding in one or more languages (preferably Python)

Experience with at least one major public cloud and its services (preferably

AWS

)

Experience implementing observability and alerting

Willingness to participate in paid on-call rotations

Business orientation and data-driven approach

Nice to have: knowledge of modern web frameworks; SQL and relational DBs

Strong communication skills

Minimum B2 English level

Strong communication

Collaborative mindset

Data-driven decision making

Python

AWS

Observability and alerting

📌 Senior Software Engineer, Services (Barcelona)
🏢 Preply
📍 Barcelona