Senior Platform Software Engineer - Preply

Preply Inc.
Madrid, Spain
3 days ago
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Role details

Contract type
Permanent contract
Employment type
Full-time (> 32 hours)
Experience required
8 years minimum
Working hours
Regular working hours

Tech stack

Amazon Web Services Computing Platforms Cloud Computing Distributed Systems Python (Programming Language) Software Engineering SQL Databases System Software Web Application Frameworks

Job description

As a Software Platform Engineer at Preply, you will own the availability and performance of mission-critical services while expanding platform tooling and automation.You will work closely with cross-functional teams to improve scalability, observability, and incident response, shaping core services used by production traffic.The role blends software engineering with cloud infrastructure in a dynamic, supportive environment that values growth andMentorship.You’ll contribute to a high-uptime, cost-conscious platform that powers learning experiences across 175+ countries.Generous monthly lesson allowance Competitive package with equity Leave allowance Own availability and performance of mission-critical services and automate issue prevention Improve scalability, observability, and alerting of the system Build tooling to enhance the platform and accelerate software development Practice blameless postmortems and sustain incident response Collaborate with product teams to tackle technical issues and design new systems Strengthen the team’s credibility through high-quality technical execution Follow 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 with strong coding in one or more languages (preferably Python) Experience with at least one major public cloud and its services (preferably AWS) Experience implementing observability and alerting Willingness to participate in paid on-call rotations Business orientation and data-driven approach Nice to have: knowledge of modern web frameworks; SQL and relational DBs Strong communication Python AWS Observability and alerting Senior Platform Software Engineer - Preply barcelona, catalunya, es#J-*****-Ljbffr

Requirements

Generous monthly lesson allowance Competitive package with equity Leave allowance Own availability and performance of mission-critical services and automate issue prevention Improve scalability, observability, and alerting of the system Build tooling to enhance the platform and accelerate software development Practice blameless postmortems and sustain incident response Collaborate with product teams to tackle technical issues and design new systems Strengthen the team’s credibility through high-quality technical execution Follow 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 with strong coding in one or more languages (preferably Python) Experience with at least one major public cloud and its services (preferably AWS) Experience implementing observability and alerting Willingness to participate in paid on-call rotations Business orientation and data-driven approach Nice to have: knowledge of modern web frameworks; SQL and relational DBs Strong communication Python AWS Observability and alerting Senior Platform Software Engineer - Preply barcelona, catalunya, es #J-*****-Ljbffr

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