Senior II Security Engineer - Platform

About the Company

Preply is a category-defining Ed-Tech unicorn that helps people discover the magic of the perfect tutor through human-led, AI-enhanced learning. With over 100,000 tutors teaching 90+ languages in 180 countries, we are shaping the future of education at a global scale.

Responsibilities

• Own platform security across AWS, Kubernetes, and GCP, focusing on detection, alerting, and incident response
• Lead key platform security initiatives end-to-end from definition to rollout
• Evolve monitoring capabilities from basic SIEM to effective, actionable detection and response
• Strengthen cloud and platform security through practical guardrails, secure patterns, and automation
• Improve Kubernetes security, including cluster/workload security and policy enforcement
• Mature detection and response using Datadog, including building actionable detections and reducing noise
• Improve secrets management and reduce exposure risk across CI/CD and runtime
• Build security automation to make the secure path the easy path for engineers

Requirements

• Strong experience securing cloud and platform environments (AWS and Kubernetes required, GCP preferred)
• Hands-on experience delivering technical security initiatives in production
• Understanding of SDLC, CI/CD, and Infrastructure as Code
• Experience with identity and access security, specifically Okta event monitoring
• Experience maturing security operations and turning SIEM inputs into operational outcomes
• Strong collaboration skills to influence SRE, Data, Engineering, and GRC teams
• Minimum C1 English level
• Willingness to participate in on-call rotations

Preferred Qualifications

• Experience with Terraform and IaC at scale
• Jenkins hardening and CI/CD supply chain security
• Cloudflare security controls (WAF, bot mitigation)
• Scripting or programming for automation
• Incident response experience in cloud-native environments