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Preply is a unicorn edtech platform (Series D, $150M) that connects 100,000+ tutors teaching 90+ languages to learners across 180 countries. The company is transforming education through human-led, AI-enhanced learning at global scale.
The SRE/Platform Engineering team focuses on maintaining industry-leading uptime and latency, scaling the platform, developing core services and tooling, and running infrastructure cost-effectively. The team operates in small units with high autonomy and influence over system design.
As a Senior Platform Software Engineer, you will own the availability and performance of mission-critical services, building automation to prevent problem recurrence. Key responsibilities include improving system scalability, observability, and alerting; developing tooling to accelerate software development; practicing sustainable incident response and blameless postmortems; collaborating with product teams on technical challenges and system design; and following FinOps best practices. You'll participate in paid on-call rotations and help strengthen the team's technical execution quality.
Required: ~8 years designing, building, maintaining, and troubleshooting high-traffic distributed systems; strong software engineering skills with proficiency in Python or similar languages; experience with a major public cloud (preferably AWS) and its services; experience implementing observability and alerting; willingness to participate in on-call rotations; business orientation and data-driven approach; strong communication skills (minimum B2 English).
Nice-to-have: modern web frameworks, SQL, relational databases.
Preply offers a collaborative, diverse culture; generous monthly Preply lesson allowance; learning & development budget with self-development time; competitive compensation with equity; and the opportunity to impact learners and tutors globally. The engineering team has 90%+ adoption of AI coding tools and emphasizes autonomous, AI-augmented development at scale.
