Staff Platform Engineer: Drive Cross-Platform Reliability

Preply; United States; On-site; USD 180,000 - 240,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Equity

Health insurance

Learning budget and time off for self‑

Job summary

Preply is seeking a Staff Platform Engineer to serve as a high‑leverage technical leader across the Platform Tribe. You’ll shape technical direction, unblock complex problems, and raise the quality bar while shipping production changes hands‑on.

You will work with Infrastructure, Runtime and Data, Developer Platform, Application Platform, Frontend Platform, and Mobile Platform squads to improve reliability and scalability.

Qualifications

• Strong track record as a senior technical leader delivering cross‑team impact and production readiness.
• Extensive hands‑on experience designing, building, maintaining, and troubleshooting high‑traffic distributed systems.
• Deep experience with DevOps and cloud infrastructure (preferably AWS).
• Experience with CI/CD systems, build/test reliability, and developer workflows.
• Strong foundations in reliability engineering: observability, alerting, incident response, capacity planning.

Responsibilities

• Provide technical leadership across platform squads: architecture decisions, standards, paved paths, and reusable patterns.
• Lead cross‑squad initiatives to improve code-to-production pathways: CI foundations, delivery workflow reliability, environments, and self‑service entry points.
• Drive operability improvements: SLO thinking, dashboards, alerting standards, runbooks, and incident readiness across platform systems.
• Go deep on high‑impact reliability problems: root-cause analyses, remediation design, automation, and postmortem follow‑through.
• Build and operate critical platform services and tooling serving production traffic and internal users with strong quality and operational discipline.
• Mentor senior engineers and tech leads to raise design quality and execution standards across the tribe.
• Use data to guide priorities and measure outcomes (delivery health, reliability signals, adoption, satisfaction).
• Participate in on‑call and major incident response, improving incident execution and prevention over time.

Skills

Senior technical leader

Cross-team impact

Production systems design

DevOps

Cloud infrastructure (AWS)

CI/CD

Observability

Incident response

Communication skills

RFCs and influence

Tools

CI/CD pipelines

Monitoring tools

Terraform

Job description

Preply is seeking a Staff Platform Engineer to serve as a high‑leverage technical leader across the Platform Tribe. You’ll shape technical direction, unblock complex problems, and raise the quality bar while shipping production changes hands‑on.

You will work with Infrastructure, Runtime and Data, Developer Platform, Application Platform, Frontend Platform, and Mobile Platform squads to improve reliability and scalability.