Staff Platform Engineer - Scalable Backend, Equity

Preply; Amsterdam; On-site; EUR 140,000 - 190,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Open culture

Learning budget

Equity

Health insurance

Job summary

Preply is seeking a Staff Platform Engineer to drive technical leadership across its Platform Tribe. You will shape architecture, raise the quality bar, and unblock complex problems while contributing hands-on to production changes.

You will mentor senior engineers, improve reliability, and harness data to guide priorities. This role blends leadership with practical execution in a rapidly evolving AI-enabled engineering environment.

Qualifications

• Extensive hands-on experience designing, building, maintaining, and troubleshooting high-traffic distributed systems in production.
• Strong track record as a senior technical leader delivering cross-team impact.
• Deep experience with DevOps and cloud infrastructure (preferably AWS).
• 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.
• Comfort writing production-quality tooling through AI-assisted coding.

Responsibilities

• 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.

Skills

Senior leader

Distributed systems

DevOps

CI/CD

Observability

Incident response

Mentorship

Data-driven decisions

Communication

AI-assisted coding

Tools

AWS

CI/CD tooling

Job description

Preply is seeking a Staff Platform Engineer to drive technical leadership across its Platform Tribe. You will shape architecture, raise the quality bar, and unblock complex problems while contributing hands-on to production changes.

You will mentor senior engineers, improve reliability, and harness data to guide priorities. This role blends leadership with practical execution in a rapidly evolving AI-enabled engineering environment.