We power peoples progress.
At Preply were all about creating lifechanging learning experiences. We help people discover the magic of the perfect tutor craft a personalized learning journey and stay motivated to keep growing. Our approach is humanled techenabled and its creating real impact. So far 90000 tutors have delivered over 20 million lessons to learners in more than 175 countries. Every Preply lesson sparks change fuels ambition and drives progress that matters.
Meet the team!
As a member of the Platform tribe the Site Reliability Engineer (SRE) at Preply combines software development infrastructure operations and business skills to run a largescale faulttolerant global language education platform. The SRE ensures that Preply systems have high reliability topintheindustry uptime and a fast rate of product innovations. Additionally SREs keep an everwatchful eye on the capacity and performance of our system. Youll work on core parts of our platform and help us to meet the challenges of growing our organization in terms of both traffic and the number of developers.
The SRE team unites infrastructure engineering and business to ensure great synergy that helps Preply succeed. Our main focuses are:
- Top in the industry uptime record and latency.
- Blazingly fast Lead Time for our product engineers.
- Running infrastructure in a cost effective way.
We work in small teams thus you will be able to influence system design and contribute a lot in the companys growth. Were really serious about it: youll be able to actually measure how your work impacts business and present it to the whole company. We promote selfdirection to work on meaningful projects while we also strive to create an environment that provides the support and mentorship needed to learn and grow.
We release our product 7080 times per day by leveraging modern technologies like Kubernetes Docker and topnotch CI/CD processes. We have diverse technical challenges (sometimes we write about them on our Engineering Blog that will allow you to develop your skills across the stack. Please visit ourTech Radar and our YouTube channel to learn more about the technologies we use at Preply!
What youll be doing:
- Own the availability and performance of missioncritical services and build automation to prevent problems recurrence.
- Improve the lead time of Engineers at Preply.
- Improve the systems scalability observability and alerting.
- Practice sustainable incident response and blameless postmortems.
- Collaborate with product teams to help them tackle technical issues and design new systems.
- Strengthen credibility with the quality of the teams technical .
- Follow the best FinOps practices.
- Manage oncall rotation across the team.
What you need to succeed:
- Expertise in problem solving and analyzing high loaded systems.
- Proficiency with production troubleshooting.
- Businessorientation and datadriven approach.
- Strong experience with k8s Docker Helm or similar technologies.
- Experience with AWS or any other cloud provider
- Understanding of Networking: network topologies and common network protocols and services.
- Experience coding in one or more programming languages. Any knowledge of modern web frameworks is a plus as well as SQL and relational DBs.
- Willingness to participate on paid oncall rotations.
- Strong communication skills. Minimum B2 English level.
Why youll love it at Preply
- An open collaborative dynamic and diverse culture;
- A generous monthly allowance for lessons onPreply Learning & Development budget and time off for your selfdevelopment;
- A competitive financial package with equity leave allowance and health insurance;
- Not in Barcelona We offer an attractive relocation package to join us in our Preply Barcelona Hub;
- Access to free mental health support platforms;
- Access to Gympasspartnered wellness and gym centers throughout Spain to promote and support wellbeing and physical health;
- The opportunity to shape the lives of learners and tutors through language learning and teaching in 175 countries (and counting!.
Our Principles
- Care to change the world We are passionate about our work and care deeply about its impact to be life changing.
- We do it for learners For both Preply and tutors learners are why we do what we do. Every day we focus on empowering tutors to deliver an exceptional learning experience.
- Keep perfecting To create an outstanding customer experience we focus on simplicity smoothness and enjoyment continually perfecting it as every detail matters.
- Now is the time In a fastpaced world it matters how quickly we act. Now is the time to make great things happen.
- Disciplined What makes us disciplined is the excellence in our . We set clear goals focus on what matters and utilize our resources efficiently.
- Dive deep We leverage business acumen and curiosity to investigate disparities between numbers and stories unlocking meaningful insights to guide our decisions.
- Growth mindset We proactively seek growth opportunities and believe todays best performance becomes tomorrows starting point. We humbly embrace feedback and learn from setbacks.
- Raise the bar We raise our performance standards continuously alongside each new hire and promotion. We build diverse and highperforming teams that can make a real difference.
- Challenge disagree and commit We value open and candid communication even when we dont fully agree. We speak our minds challenge when necessary and fully commit to decisions once made.
- One Preply We prioritize collaboration inclusion and the success of our team over personal ambitions. Together we support and celebrate each others progress.
Diversity Equity and Inclusion
Preply is committed to creating a diverse and inclusive environment where people from all backgrounds can thrive. Different opinions and viewpoints are key ingredients in our success as a multicultural EdTech company.
Preply will consider all applications for employment without regard to race color religion gender identity or expression sexual orientation national origin disability age or veteran status. Together we are The World Class.
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Required Experience:
Senior IC