Staff Platform Engineer

The role

You will act as a high-leverage technical leader across platform squads. You will set technical direction, unblock complex problems, mentor engineers, and ship production changes hands-on.

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.
• 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 and leave allowance.
• 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.