Senior Platform Engineer

Joining Busuu means being part of one of the top EdTech companies in the world, a multiple award-winner recognised for its innovation and impact in language learning. Busuu's vision is to empower people through languages. We are the world's largest online community for language learning, with 120+ million registered users. We make learning a language easy by combining AI-powered courses with feedback from our global community of native speakers and lesson content designed for real life. Busuu is part of the global Chegg family. Chegg is the leading student-first connected learning platform and a NYSE listed company.

The role: As a Senior Platform Engineer at Busuu, you will be building technology that helps millions of people learn languages every day. You will help us design, scale, and improve the infrastructure that powers our platform. You'll be part of a team focused on reliability, automation, and observability — enabling our engineers to deliver faster and with confidence. Your tasks will include building and scaling reliable cloud infrastructure, preferably in AWS, operating and optimizing Kubernetes clusters at scale, improving observability across systems using OpenTelemetry and New Relic, automating infrastructure and deployments with Terraform, Terragrunt, and GitOps (ArgoCD), designing and evolving secure, scalable network architectures across multiple environments, and collaborating on CI/CD pipelines.

Job requirements: A solid foundation in cloud infrastructure, Kubernetes, and Infrastructure as Code is essential. Hands-on experience with monitoring, tracing, and logging, strong understanding of networking principles, routing, and connectivity in cloud-native architectures, and programming or scripting skills (Python preferred) are required. Familiarity with databases and Kafka or similar event systems is also necessary. A problem-solving mindset and comfort with taking ownership and learning new things on the fly are crucial.

Benefits: Busuu offers a range of benefits including well-equipped offices with free breakfast, snacks, and fresh fruit, 2 free lunches per week, private health insurance, a personal training budget, flexible working hours, enhanced maternity and paternity leave, and various social activities. We support a hybrid model of working to help balance work-life commitments.

Applications details: We aim to have a simple and speedy hiring process. The process includes a CV application review, a quick chat with our recruiter, a culture fit interview, a technical call with the team, a technical test, and a coding review. We are committed to creating a diverse and inclusive workplace.