Senior Platform Engineer - Software
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Job Description
We power peoples progress.
At Preply were all about creating life-changing 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 human-led tech-enabled - 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!
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.
- Invest in Platforms scalability.
- Develop core services & tooling powering our Platform.
- 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. We promote self-direction 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 have diverse technical challenges that will allow you to develop your skills across the stack - sometimes we write about them in our Engineering Blog! Please also visit our Tech Radar and our YouTube channel to learn more about the technologies we use at Preply!
What youll be doing:
The Software Platform Engineer at Preply combines software engineering practices with cloud infrastructure distributed systems patterns storage systems and observability to deliver on a wide range of projects - ranging from tooling to core Platform services which serve production this role you will collaborate closely with other teams sharing knowledge to deliver on projects.
- Own the availability and performance of mission-critical services and build automation to prevent problems recurrence.
- Improve the systems scalability observability and alerting.
- Build tooling to improve our platform and accelerate the overall software development.
- 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 execution.
- Follow the best FinOps practices.
- Participate in on-call rotation across the team.
What you need to succeed:
- Expertise in designing building maintaining and troubleshooting high traffic distributed systems.
- Proficient software engineering skills. Strong coding experience in one or more programming languages (preferably Python).
- Experience with at least one major public cloud its services and infrastructure (preferably AWS).
- Experience in implementing observability and alerting.
- Willingness to participate on paid on-call rotations.
- Business-orientation and data-driven approach.
- Nice to have: knowledge of modern web frameworks; SQL and relational DBs.
- Strong communication skills. Minimum B2 English level.
Why youll love it at Preply
- Open collaborative dynamic and diverse culture.
- Generous monthly allowance for lessons .
- Learning & Development budget including time off for your self-development.
- Competitive financial package with equity and leave allowance.
- Opportunity to shape the lives of learners and tutors from over 175 countries through language learning and teaching.
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 fast-paced world it matters how quickly we act. Now is the time to make great things happen.
- Disciplined execution - What makes us disciplined is the excellence in our execution. 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 high-performing 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 Ed-Tech 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
Employment Type
Full Time
