Staff Software Engineer – Platform

🕒 March 18

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Preply

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501 - 1000 employees

Founded 2012

📚 Education

🏪 Marketplace

👥 B2C

Education • Marketplace • B2C

Preply is an online education marketplace that connects learners with professional tutors for live, personalized 1-on-1 lessons across languages and other subjects. The platform offers thousands of vetted tutors, user reviews, mobile apps, and tools for scheduling and secure payments, plus plans for individuals and corporate language training. Preply focuses on tailored learning paths, flexible scheduling, and progress tracking to help students improve conversational and exam skills.

📋 Description

• 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 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. • Strong software engineering skills in Python / Django, with the ability to write production-quality tooling and services. • Deep experience with DevOps and cloud infrastructure (preferably AWS): networking basics, identity and access patterns, infrastructure automation, and operational best practices. • Strong 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. • Strong written communication and technical influence (RFCs, clear tradeoffs, and driving alignment). • Willingness to participate in paid on-call rotations.

🏖️ Benefits

• 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, leave allowance and health insurance. • 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!).