Staff Platform Engineer

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Responsibilities

• ▹Provide technical leadership across platform squads: architecture decisions, engineering standards, paved paths, and reusable patterns that reduce cognitive load and increase consistency
• ▹Lead cross-squad and cross-engineering initiatives that improve the path from code to production: CI foundations, delivery workflow reliability, environments, and self-service entry points
• ▹Drive operability improvements: SLO thinking, dashboards, alerting standards, runbooks, failure recovery patterns, and incident readiness across platform-owned systems
• ▹Go deep on high-impact reliability and performance problems, including root cause analysis, remediation design, automation to prevent recurrence, and postmortem follow-through
• ▹Build and operate critical platform services and tooling that serve production traffic and internal users, with strong engineering quality and operational discipline
• ▹Act as a multiplier through mentorship: coaching senior engineers and tech leads, improving design quality, and raising execution standards across the tribe
• ▹Use data to guide priorities and measure outcomes (delivery health, reliability signals, adoption, and satisfaction), and help teams turn metrics into durable improvements
• ▹Participate in on-call and major incident response, leading by example and helping teams improve incident execution and prevention over time

Requirements

• ▹Strong track record as a senior technical leader (Staff, Principal, or equivalent) delivering cross-team impact: setting standards, aligning stakeholders, de-risking complex technical decisions, and landing changes in production
• ▹Extensive hands-on experience designing, building, maintaining, and troubleshooting high-traffic distributed systems in production
• ▹Deep experience with DevOps and cloud infrastructure (preferably AWS): networking basics, identity and access patterns, infrastructure automation, and operational best practices
• ▹Experience with CI/CD systems, build and test reliability, artifact management, and developer workflows
• ▹Strong foundations in reliability engineering: observability, alerting, incident response, capacity planning, and automation-driven prevention
• ▹Communication and technical influence — articulates complex tradeoffs clearly, drives alignment through RFCs, and influences technical direction across teams
• ▹Comfort writing production-quality tooling through AI-assisted coding

Soft skills

What we offer

• ▹An open, collaborative, dynamic and diverse culture
• ▹A generous monthly allowance for lessons on Preply.com, Learning & Development budget and time off for your self-development
• ▹A competitive financial package with equity and leave allowance
• ▹Access to free mental health support platforms
• ▹The opportunity to shape the lives of learners and tutors through language learning and teaching in 175 countries (and counting!)

About the company

Preply is an EdTech company connecting learners with tutors — over 100,000 tutors teaching 90+ languages to learners in 180 countries. The company recently reached unicorn status after a $150M Series D funding round. The Platform Tribe builds and operates the internal products that make it simple, safe, fast, and reliable for engineers to deliver value. The team builds scalable Python/Django applications, ships production changes 50-60 times a day thanks to advanced CI/CD, and has reached 90%+ adoption of AI coding tools across engineering.