Director of Platform Engineering
Director of Platform Engineering
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Were looking for a Director of Platform Engineering to lead our Platform teams across SRE Experimentation Developer Experience and Design System all key to powering our business. Reporting directly to the CTO and cofounder this role will play a key part in scaling Preplys platform for the next stage of growth ensuring our technology stack evolves in lockstep with product innovation and ambitious business goals.
As a Director of Platform Engineering youll be responsible for:
- Platform teams around clear goals ownership boundaries and crossfunctional collaboration with engineering data and product.
- Architectural decisions including the strategic decomposition of our monolith into modular maintainable systems.
- Designing and delivering ML Ops capabilities from the ground up in collaboration with data science and infrastructure teams.
- Significantly optimizing Preplys cloud costs while improving observability tooling and developer experience across the organization.
- Building a hightrust highperformance team culture rooted in technical excellence customer centricity and continuous improvement.
What youll be doing:
- Leading and growing a highperforming organization (initially 34 direct reports 67 teams) with room to expand.
- Defining and driving the evolution of our infrastructure architecture cloud setup and developer tooling.
- Leveling up key capabilities including ML Ops database optimization CI/CD practices and AWS cost efficiency.
- Bringing deep technical insight to strategic architectural decisions including our move to more modular systems.
- Contributing to our AI strategy by enabling teams to train deploy and scale models effectively.
- Collaborating closely with leadership to drive crossfunctional initiatives and improving engineering velocity.
- Acting as a culture carrier and people leader: hiring exceptional talent developing managers and ensuring teams are engaged and aligned.
- Balancing technical vision business impact and organizational leadership to deliver results that matter.
What you need to succeed:
- Proven experience at Director level in Platform Engineering or as CTO/VP Engineering in highgrowth tech environments.
- Experience managing 3050 engineers across multiple platformfocused teams (SRE Infra DevOps ML Ops).
- Deep understanding of modern infrastructure: AWS/cloudnative systems CI/CD observability microservices security and cost optimization.
- Strong business acumen and a product mindset you think in terms of value delivered not just systems built.
- Exceptional people leadership skills you know how to stabilize align and grow diverse highperforming teams.
- Handson leadership experience in companies of high scale (ideally cloud SaaS edtech or AIdriven).
Why youll love it at Preply:
- An open collaborative dynamic and diverse culture;
- A generous monthly allowance for lessons on Preply 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:
Director
Employment Type
Full Time
