Senior Platform Software Engineer
We power people’s progress. At Preply, we’re 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 it’s creating real impact. So far, 90,000 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 Platform’s scalability.
- Develop core services & tooling powering our Platform.
- Running infrastructure in a cost effective way.
- 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.
- 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 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.
- 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.
- 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 today's best performance becomes tomorrow's 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 don’t 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 other's progress.