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# II Platform Software Engineer

- **Company:** Preply Inc.
- **Location:** Barcelona, Spain
- **Salary:** €65,000.0 - €90,000.0
- **Contract:** Permanent contract
- **Skills:** Amazon Web Services, Computing Platforms, Build Automation, Cloud Computing, Computer Programming, Distributed Systems, Python (Programming Language), Software Engineering, SQL Databases, System Software, Web Application Frameworks, Data Analytics, Programming Languages
- **Published:** September 24, 2026
- **Apply:** https://www.adzuna.es/contact-us.html

## About the Role

+ 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.

## Description

The Software Platform Engineer at Preply 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. In this role, you will collaborate closely with other teams, sharing knowledge to deliver on projects.

 + 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.


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