About the company
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.
Responsibilities
- Own platform security across AWS, Kubernetes, and GCP
- Lead key platform security initiatives end-to-end
- Act as a strong technical voice in defining how platform security is designed, implemented, and operated
- Evolve our monitoring from “we have a SIEM” to a detection and response capability
- Work hands-on with our current tooling, including Datadog as our SIEM, Okta as our primary IdP
- Drive cross-functional platform security initiatives
- Strengthen cloud and platform security across AWS and Kubernetes
- Improve the robustness of access to internal infrastructure
- Improve security of Kubernetes deployments
- Mature detection and response capability using Datadog
- Improve log coverage and data quality
- Build and tune actionable detections
- Reduce noise through correlation, deduplication, enrichment, and continuous tuning
- Establish repeatable triage workflows and clear escalation paths
- Create investigation playbooks and runbooks
- Partner with Data teams to improve monitoring for suspicious activity
- Improve secrets management and reduce exposure risk
- Build security automation
Requirements
- Strong experience securing cloud and platform environments, especially AWS and Kubernetes
- Hands-on experience driving and delivering technical security initiatives end-to-end
- Strong understanding of the software development lifecycle
- Practical experience improving identity and access security
- Experience building or maturing security operations capability
- Experience improving logging coverage and signal quality
- Strong collaboration skills
- Business-oriented mindset
- Strong communication skills. Minimum C1 English level.
- Willingness to participate in on-call rotations
Nice to have
- Terraform and infrastructure as code at scale
- Jenkins hardening and CI/CD supply chain security controls
- Cloudflare security controls
- Scripting or programming for automation and tooling
- Incident response experience in cloud-native environments