Senior IT System Engineer

We power people’s progress.:
At Preply, we’re all about creating life-changing learning experiences. We help people discover the magic of the perfect tutor, craft a personalised learning journey, and stay motivated to keep growing. Our approach is human-led, tech-enabled - and it’s creating real impact.

We’ve just reached unicorn status with a $150M Series D, accelerating our vision to transform education through human-led, AI-enhanced learning. Today, 100,000+ tutors teach 90+ languages to learners in 180 countries - and we’re only getting started. As a category-defining company, we’re shaping what the future of learning looks like at global scale.

Every Preply lesson sparks change, fuels ambition, and drives progress that matters. Joining Preply means helping define the future of education at global scale, and building something that truly matters for millions of people, every day.

A Senior IT Systems Engineer is a senior technical leader responsible for the architecture, reliability, and security of the company's core IT infrastructure and services. This role goes beyond complex operational support to drive strategic technical initiatives, define best practices, and mentor P5 and P6 engineers. The P7 Engineer owns the technical roadmap for key systems and is accountable for the successful execution of cross-functional projects that enhance the global employee experience and corporate security posture.

What you’ll be doing:
Cloud Infrastructure & SaaS Governance:

• Own and evolve our cloud infrastructure on GCP — from identity architecture and access controls to cost optimisation and scalability planning
• Design and maintain our IAM ecosystem (Okta, Google Workspace, Jamf) including SSO/MFA enforcement, provisioning workflows, and identity lifecycle automation
• Build and enforce endpoint management policies across a 99% Apple fleet via Jamf and MDM, ensuring security baselines and a great employee experience
• Create dashboards and reporting frameworks that give leadership real visibility into our SaaS spend, cloud posture, and asset health

Code, Automation & AI Platforms:

• Write production-quality code daily — Python scripts, API integrations, iPaaS (integration Platform as a platform) workflows (Workato or similar), and lightweight internal tools that solve real problems for our team
• Build and maintain integration pipelines that connect our SaaS ecosystem: identity provisioning, automated onboarding/offboarding, license reconciliation, and event-driven workflows
• Develop internal tooling and dashboards (Google Apps Script, Python, HTML/CSS/JS) that surface actionable data — from AI usage analytics to hardware fleet health and budget forecasting
• Shape and execute our internal AI tools strategy — managing adoption, governance, and usage analytics for platforms like Claude, ChatGPT Enterprise, GitHub Copilot, and Cursor
• Evaluate and pilot emerging AI capabilities for IT operations — from AI-assisted troubleshooting to predictive SaaS usage and automated compliance evidence collection
• Treat Infrastructure as Code as a default: version-controlled configurations, reproducible environments, and CI/CD pipelines for IT automation deployments
• Design automation solutions that are clean, maintainable, and built to last — not just clever scripts, but well-documented, testable, production-grade systems

Team Leadership & Technical Mentoring:

• Lead and mentor a team of 5-6 IT engineers — hiring, coaching, mentoring, and creating real career development paths
• Elevate your team’s engineering skills through hands-on mentoring: pair programming, code reviews, architecture discussions, and setting quality standards that raise everyone’s game
• Build a collaborative engineering culture where the team ships robust IT solutions that internal customers genuinely value
• Help IT engineers grow from script-writers into systems thinkers — teaching them to build modular, testable, well-documented automation they’re proud of
• Champion open communication and a strong feedback culture — great teams are built on psychological safety, trust, and transparency
• Collaborate across the Platform group to align your team with company objectives and ambitious IT maturity goals
• Build roadmaps that balance long-term strategic vision (governance frameworks, scalable architectures) with tactical quick wins that deliver immediate value

Security & Compliance:

• Partner with Security and Legal to maintain SOC 2 compliance — owning IT controls, evidence collection, and audit readiness
• Ensure GDPR and data protection requirements are embedded into every system and workflow your team touches
• Lead initiatives that enforce best-in-class governance practices: access reviews, vendor risk assessments, and shadow IT remediation
• Embrace an agile “build it and run it” mindset where your team owns what they build, from launch through ongoing security and support

**Operational Excellence & Continuous