Senior II Platform Software Engineer

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Responsibilities

• ▹Own the availability and performance of mission-critical services and build automation to prevent problems recurring
• ▹Improve the system's scalability, observability, and alerting
• ▹Build tooling to improve the platform and accelerate 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 team's technical execution
• ▹Follow the best FinOps practices
• ▹Participate in on-call rotation across the team

Requirements

• ▹Extensive experience (~8 years) 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 in paid on-call rotations
• ▹Business-orientation and data-driven approach
• ▹Minimum B2 English level

Nice to have

• ▹Knowledge of modern web frameworks
• ▹SQL and relational databases
• ▹Strong communication skills

Soft skills

What we offer

• ▹Open, collaborative, dynamic and diverse culture
• ▹Generous monthly allowance for lessons on Preply.com
• ▹Learning & Development budget, including time off for self-development
• ▹Competitive financial package with equity and leave allowance

About the company

Preply is a language-learning platform connecting 100,000+ tutors with learners across 180 countries in 90+ languages. Having recently reached unicorn status with a $150M Series D, the company builds human-led, AI-enhanced learning experiences.