Senior II Platform Software Engineer - SRE

Barcelona, Remote. Posted 10 months ago

The role

The Senior II Platform Software Engineer in the SRE team combines software engineering with cloud infrastructure, distributed systems, and observability. You will own the availability and performance of mission-critical services and build automation to prevent problem recurrence.

What you will do

Own the availability and performance of mission-critical services
Build automation to prevent problems recurrence
Improve the system's scalability, observability, and alerting
Build tooling to improve the platform and accelerate software development
Practice sustainable incident response and blameless postmortems
Collaborate with product teams to tackle technical issues and design new systems
Strengthen credibility with the quality of the team's technical execution
Follow the best FinOps practices
Participate in on-call rotation across the team

Required qualifications

Extensive experience (~8 years) in designing, building, maintaining and troubleshooting high traffic distributed systems
AI Expertise: forefront user of Agentic AI with hands-on experience influencing team beyond code generation
Proficient software engineering skills
Experience with at least one major public cloud, its services and infrastructure
Experience in implementing observability and alerting
Willingness to participate on paid on-call rotations
Business-orientation and data-driven approach
Strong communication skills
Minimum C1 English level

Nice to have

Python preferred
AWS preferred

Benefits

Generous monthly allowance for lessons on Preply.com
Learning & Development budget
Time off for self-development
Competitive financial package with equity
Leave allowance
Health insurance
Relocation package to join the Preply Barcelona Hub
Access to 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. The company has reached unicorn status with a $150M Series D.