Meet the team
We’re looking for a Director of Platform Engineering to lead our Platform teams across SRE, Experimentation, Developer Experience, and Design System - all key to powering our business.
Reporting directly to the CTO and co-founder, this role will play a key part in scaling Preply’s platform for the next stage of growth, ensuring our technology stack evolves in lockstep with product innovation and ambitious business goals.
As a Director of Platform Engineering, you’ll be responsible for:
* Leading platform teams around clear goals, ownership boundaries, and cross-functional collaboration with engineering, data, and product.
* Designing and delivering ML Ops capabilities from the ground up in collaboration with data science and infrastructure teams.
* Optimizing Preply’s cloud costs, while improving observability, tooling, and developer experience across the organization.
* Building a high-trust, high-performance team culture rooted in technical excellence, customer centricity, and continuous improvement.
* Defining and driving the evolution of our infrastructure, architecture, cloud setup, and developer tooling.
* Enhancing key capabilities including ML Ops, database optimization, CI / CD practices, and AWS cost efficiency.
* Collaborating closely with leadership to drive cross-functional initiatives and improve engineering velocity.
* Acting as a culture carrier and people leader: hiring exceptional talent, developing managers, and ensuring teams are engaged and aligned.
Minimum Requirements:
* Proven experience at Director level in Platform Engineering, or as CTO / VP Engineering in high-growth tech environments.
* Experience managing 30–50+ engineers across multiple platform-focused teams (SRE, Infra, DevOps, ML Ops).
* Expertise in AWS / cloud-native systems, CI / CD, observability, microservices, security, and cost optimization.
* Hands-on leadership experience in high-scale companies (ideally cloud, SaaS, edtech, or AI-driven).
Benefits include:
* Learning & Development budget and time off for self-development.
* A competitive financial package with equity, leave allowance, and health insurance.
* An attractive relocation package to join our Preply Barcelona Hub.
Our culture emphasizes a growth mindset and raising performance standards continuously, alongside each new hire and promotion.
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