Senior Platform Database Engineer | Paid relocation to Barcelona

Senior Platform Database Engineer | Paid relocation to Barcelona Join Preply as a Senior Platform Database Engineer. We’re all about creating life‑changing learning experiences.

At Preply, we help people discover the perfect tutor, craft a personalized learning journey, and stay motivated to grow. Our approach is human‑led, tech‑enabled, creating real impact. So far, 90,000 tutors have delivered over 20 million lessons to learners in more than 175 countries.

Meet the team The SRE team unites infrastructure, engineering and business to ensure great synergy that helps Preply succeed. Our main focuses are:

Top industry uptime record and latency.

Develop core services & tooling powering our Platform.

Run infrastructure in a cost‑effective way.

We work in small teams, allowing you to influence system design and contribute to the company's growth.

We have diverse technical challenges that will allow you to develop your skills across the stack. Take a look at our Engineering Blog, Tech Radar and YouTube channel for more.

What You'll Be Doing

Own the availability and performance of mission‑critical databases 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.

What You Need To Succeed

Experience with operating PostgreSQL at high traffic in Master/Replica setups, even multi‑region.

Experience with distributed systems in the cloud.

Experience with DB Capacity Planning & Scaling strategies, Backups and Disaster Recovery.

Performance optimisation and DB tuning.

Infrastructure proficiency to be self‑sufficient in managing our database infrastructure in the cloud (preferably AWS).

DB monitoring and troubleshooting.

Familiarity with SRE principles.

Willingness to participate on paid on‑call rotations.

Strong communication skills. Minimum B2 English level.

Nice to Have

Django ORMs or any other ORM.

RDS Aurora.

NoSQL DBs.

Scripting: Python and Bash.

Why you'll love it at Preply

Open, collaborative, dynamic and diverse culture.

Generous monthly allowance for lessons on Preply.com.

Learning & Development budget, including time off for your self‑development.

Competitive financial package with equity, and leave allowance.

Opportunity to shape the lives of learners and tutors from over 175 countries.

Care to change the world – we are passionate about our work and care deeply about its impact.

We do it for learners – for both Preply and tutors, learners are why we do what we do.

Keep perfecting – we focus on simplicity, smoothness, and enjoyment.

Now is the time – in a fast‑paced world, it matters how quickly we act.

Disciplined execution – we set clear goals and utilize resources efficiently.

Dive deep – we investigate disparities between numbers and stories to guide decisions.

Growth mindset – we proactively seek growth opportunities and learn from setbacks.

Raise the bar – we continuously raise performance standards.

Challenge, disagree and commit – we value open communication.

One Preply – we prioritize collaboration, inclusion, and team success.

Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion Preply.com is committed to creating an inclusive environment where people of diverse backgrounds can thrive. We consider all applications for employment without regard to race, color, religion, gender identity or expression, sexual orientation, national origin, disability, age or veteran status.

Additional Details

Seniority level: Mid‑Senior level.

Employment type: Full‑time.

Job function: Information Technology.

Industries: Technology, Information and Internet.

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