Platform Engineer

Busuu; Greater London; Hybrid; GBP 45,000 - 80,000; Full time

Job summary

An established industry player in EdTech is seeking a passionate Platform Engineer to join their innovative team. In this role, you will work on exciting initiatives that directly impact millions of users. You will leverage your expertise in AWS, DevOps, and Kubernetes to build robust, scalable solutions within a cloud-native infrastructure. This position offers the opportunity to collaborate across departments, ensuring that your contributions are seen and valued. The company fosters a culture of continuous learning and work-life balance, making it an ideal environment for career growth and personal development. If you're eager to tackle complex challenges and make a difference, this is the perfect opportunity for you.

Benefits

Free breakfast

Free snacks

Private Health Insurance

Personal training budget

Flexible working hours

Enhanced maternity leave

Social activities and team events

Qualifications

• Strong expertise in AWS and cloud-native services is essential.
• Experience with Kubernetes and CI/CD pipelines is crucial.

Responsibilities

• Develop features from ideation to release, collaborating across departments.
• Measure and evaluate released features to enhance user experience.

Skills

AWS cloud expertise

DevOps mindset

CI/CD experience

Kubernetes expertise

Network engineering skills

Observability platforms experience

Python programming

Linux system debugging

Tools

Terraform

GitHub

ArgoCD

OpenTelemetry

Kafka

SQL

MongoDB

Redis

Job description

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Joining Busuu means being part of one of the top EdTech companies in the world, a multiple award-winner recognised for its innovation and impact in language learning.

Busuu’s vision is to empower people through languages. We are the world’s largest online community for language learning, with 120+ million registered users. We make learning a language easy by combining AI-powered courses with feedback from our global community of native speakers and lesson content designed for real life.

Busuu is part of the global Chegg family. Chegg is the leading student-first connected learning platform and a NYSE listed company.

What does a Platform Engineer do at Busuu?

As a Platform Engineer you will be working on a new and exciting initiative at Busuu. You will work on features from ideation, implementation, and release collaborating with all departments of the company. Once released to users your work will be seen by millions and from there you will measure, evaluate, and evolve what you just released.

Our platform runs in a distributed system architecture where development teams work with Node.js (TypeScript), following best coding standards and hexagonal architecture with Domain-Driven Design. We embrace event-driven architecture patterns using message brokers and event streaming. Our infrastructure is cloud-native, leveraging AWS services and following infrastructure-as-code principles. We practice DevOps and GitOps methodologies with a strong focus on automation and observability. Working at scale presents exciting challenges, and we're looking for someone passionate about solving complex problems and building robust, scalable solutions.

What makes a great Platform Engineer at Busuu?

Must-have skills:

• AWS cloud expertise with focus on cloud-native services
• DevOps mindset with CI/CD experience (GitHub, ArgoCD) and Infrastructure as Code (Terraform/Terragrunt)
• Kubernetes expertise in container orchestration and cluster management
• Network engineering skills including load balancers, CDN, Istio, and security patterns
• Experience with observability platforms (OpenTelemetry) and distributed systems

Nice-to-have skills:

• Python programming and Linux system debugging
• Database administration (SQL, MongoDB, Redis)
• Message broker and event streaming experience (Kafka)
• Database performance optimisation skills

At Busuu we want to ensure that you have access to some great benefits:

• Our centrally located offices are well-equipped with free breakfast, plenty of snacks, fresh fruit, and free dinner of your choice if you need to stay late
• Busuu offers a great Private Health Insurance scheme
• There is a personal training budget just for you, so you can learn more in your field to ensure our employees can continuously grow and progress in their careers
• We like to support our teams with their work-life balance so we offer flexible working hours and a hybrid model of working
• We offer enhanced maternity and paternity leave
• Staying connected as a team is very important to us, so we have lots of social activities for you to join such as team lunches, Friday socials, quarterly team, and company events

What Happens Next

We aim to have a simple and speedy hiring process and we want to make sure that we are right for you as much as the other way around.

• CV application review - We will review it as quickly as possible
• Let’s chat - Quick chat with our recruiter about your experience and the role
• Culture fit interview - On-site or video call with the Engineering Manager
• Technical questions - Technical call with the team
• Technical test - We will send you a technical test to complete in your time
• Coding review - Technical interview and task review with the team

Our platform is for everyone, and so is our workplace. We pride ourselves on embracing our differences, whether they're cultural, racial, religious, or otherwise. This means each one of us comes to work knowing that we have a voice – and a safe, judgement-free zone to speak freely.

If you like the sound of that, join us. We'd love to hear what you have to say.

Seniority level

Mid-Senior level

Employment type

Full-time

Job function

Engineering and Information Technology

Industries

Software Development