Staff Platform Engineer

The role

You will act as a high-leverage technical leader across platform squads to set technical direction and unblock complex problems. You will build and operate critical platform services and tooling while providing mentorship to senior engineers and tech leads.

What you will do

• Provide technical leadership across platform squads regarding architecture, standards, and reusable patterns.
• Lead cross-squad and cross-engineering 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 for production traffic and internal users.
• Act as a multiplier through coaching senior engineers and tech leads.
• 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: observability, alerting, incident response, capacity planning, and automation-driven prevention.
• Communication and technical influence to articulate complex tradeoffs and drive alignment through RFCs.
• Comfort writing production-quality tooling through AI-assisted coding.

Nice to have

• AWS

Benefits

• An open, collaborative, dynamic and diverse culture.
• A generous monthly allowance for lessons on Preply.com
• Learning & Development budget and time off for your self-development.
• A competitive financial package with equity, leave allowance and health insurance.
• Access to free mental health support platforms.

About the company

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