Hybrid Senior Platform Cloud Engineer

at Preply

• Job title: Senior Platform Cloud Engineer
• Job type: Full Time
• Experience level: Senior
• Salary: Not specified
• Degree requirement: Bachelor's Degree
• Tech skills: AWS, Cloud, Distributed Systems, Kafka, Kubernetes, SQL, Terraform
• Location requirements: Hybrid, Barcelona, Spain

About the role

• Senior Platform Cloud Engineer at Preply, specializing in AWS to enhance the cloud infrastructure. Ensuring reliability and performance of services within a dynamic EdTech environment.

Responsibilities

• 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.

Requirements

• Expertise in designing, building, maintaining and troubleshooting high traffic distributed systems in the cloud.
• Strong experience in AWS services and infrastructure, particularly with Kubernetes, Load Balancers, Kafka, Networking.
• Strong experience in CDN, Edge Ingress setup.
• Highly proficient with Terraform.
• Experience in implementing observability and alerting.
• Proficiency with production troubleshooting.
• Business-orientation and data-driven approach.
• Willingness to participate on paid on-call rotations.
• Strong communication skills. Minimum B2 English level.
• Nice to have: coding experience, knowledge of modern web frameworks; SQL and relational DBs.

Benefits

• An open, collaborative, dynamic, and diverse culture;
• A generous monthly allowance for lessons on Preply.com, Learning & Development budget, and time off for your self-development;
• A competitive financial package with equity, leave allowance, and health insurance;
• Not in Barcelona? We offer an attractive relocation package to join us in our Preply Barcelona Hub;
• Access to free mental health support platforms;
• Access to Gympass-partnered wellness and gym centers throughout Spain to promote and support well-being and physical health;
• The opportunity to shape the lives of learners and tutors through language learning and teaching in 175 countries (and counting!)