Preply - Senior Platform Software Engineer
Requirements
• Extensive experience (~8 years) in designing, building, maintaining and troubleshooting high traffic distributed systems. • AI Expertise: You're a forefront user of Agentic AI. You're able to bring hands-on experience and start influencing the team beyond code generation; reserving judgment for architecture, business logic, and security, using AI as a thought partner and being able to set up quality gates and safety nets to enhance existing engineering workflows and propose AI-native alternatives. • Proficient software engineering skills (Python preferred). • 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. • Strong communication skills. Minimum C1 English level.
Responsibilities
• The Senior Platform Software Engineer role in our SRE team 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 traffic. • Own the availability and performance of mission-critical services and build automation to prevent problems recurrence. • Improve the system’s 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 team's technical execution. • Follow the best FinOps practices. • Participate in on-call rotation across the team.
Benefits
• Open, collaborative, dynamic and diverse culture. • Generous monthly allowance for lessons on Preply.com . • 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 • Our Principles • Care to change the world - We are passionate about our work and care deeply about its impact to be life changing. • Care to change the world • 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. • We do it for learners • Keep perfecting - To create an outstanding customer experience, we focus on simplicity, smoothness, and enjoyment, continually perfecting it as every detail matters. • Keep perfecting • Now is the time - In a fast-paced world, it matters how quickly we act. Now is the time to make great things happen. • Now is the time • 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. • Disciplined execution • Dive deep - We leverage business acumen and curiosity to investigate disparities between numbers and stories, unlocking meaningful insights to guide our decisions. • Dive deep • Growth mindset - We proactively seek growth opportunities and believe today's best performance becomes tomorrow's starting point. We humbly embrace feedback and learn from setbacks. • Growth mindset • 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. • Raise the bar • Challenge, disagree and commit - We value open and candid communication, even when we don’t fully agree. We speak our minds, challenge when necessary, and fully commit to decisions once made. • Challenge, disagree and commit • One Preply - We prioritize collaboration, inclusion, and the success of our team over personal ambitions. Together, we support and celebrate each other's progress. • One Preply • Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion
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