Staff Platform Engineer

The role

You will act as a high-leverage technical leader across the Platform Tribe. You will set technical direction, unblock complex problems, mentor engineers, and ship production changes to improve platform capabilities and reliability.

What you will do

• Provide technical leadership across platform squads regarding architecture and engineering standards.
• Lead cross-squad initiatives to improve the path from code to production.
• Drive operability improvements including SLO thinking, dashboards, and alerting standards.
• Solve high-impact reliability and performance problems through root cause analysis and remediation.
• Build and operate critical platform services and tooling.
• Coach senior engineers and tech leads to improve design quality and execution standards.
• Use data to guide priorities and measure outcomes.
• Participate in on-call and major incident response.

Required qualifications

• Strong track record as a senior technical leader delivering cross-team impact.
• Extensive hands-on experience designing, building, maintaining, and troubleshooting high-traffic distributed systems in production.
• Deep experience with DevOps and cloud infrastructure.
• Experience with CI/CD systems, build and test reliability, artifact management, and developer workflows.
• Strong foundations in reliability engineering including observability, alerting, incident response, and capacity planning.
• Ability to articulate complex tradeoffs and drive alignment through RFCs.
• Comfort writing production-quality tooling through AI-assisted coding.

Nice to have

• Experience with AWS

Benefits

• Monthly allowance for lessons on Preply.com
• Learning & Development budget and time off for self-development
• Competitive financial package with equity
• Leave allowance
• Health insurance
• Relocation package to join the Preply Barcelona Hub
• Free mental health support platforms
• Access to Gympass-partnered wellness and gym centers throughout Spain

About the company

Preply is a category-defining Ed-Tech company that helps people discover tutors and craft personalised learning journeys. They have reached unicorn status with a $150M Series D.