Speak
Platform Engineer
San Francisco
Sponsorship not specifiedDetected 433 days ago
PythonNode.jsPostgreSQLRedisGCPKubernetesTerraformCI/CDPrometheusDevOpsSite Reliability EngineeringPlatform EngineeringRESTMachine LearningIncident ResponseMentoring
About the role
- As a Platform Engineer at Speak, you'll be the driving force behind the reliability and resilience of the systems that power our global language learning experience.
- Speak is growing rapidly, and we're pushing our systems harder every day.
- This is a unique opportunity to shape the future of our platform as we scale to the next 10x of users.
Responsibilities
- Own the reliability of Speak's infrastructure across GCP, Kubernetes, and our Node.js/Postgres stack
- Define and drive adoption of SLOs/SLAs for core systems and services
- Build tools and frameworks to make reliability easier for product engineers-think safer deploys and infrastructure automation
- Collaborate cross-functionally with Product, Engineering, and ML teams to ensure reliability is baked into everything we build
- You'll own incident response, observability, and SLOs while embedding a culture of reliability throughout the engineering org.
Requirements
- 7+ years of experience in SRE, DevOps, Platform, and/or infrastructure-focused engineering roles, ideally with experience leading or mentoring others
- Strong experience with GCP, Kubernetes, Terraform, Node.js, Python, PostgreSQL, Redis, and observability tooling like Prometheus and Sentry
- Proven track record of improving reliability, scaling systems, and reducing incident frequency and severity with high traffic systems
- Strong systems thinking, with the ability to identify failure points and proactively harden services
- Familiarity with cost optimization strategies in cloud-native environments
Skills
- Improve observability, alerting, and on-call processes so we catch issues before users do
- Set short term and long term roadmaps to ensure stability for our growing user base.
Benefits
- Lead response for P0/P1 incidents, drive postmortems, and ensure we're learning from every outage
Company info
- Our mission is to reinvent the way people learn, starting with language.
- Learning a language can change a life by opening doors to new cultures, careers, and communities. Two billion people around the world are actively trying to learn a language, but the best way to learn (one-on-one tutoring) is hard to access at scale and hasn't been meaningfully improved in decades. Speak is building a human-level, AI-powered tutor in your pocket: a conversation-first experience that lets learners actually speak, get instant feedback, and progress through carefully designed lessons. The result is a complete path from beginner to confident speaker across multiple languages.
- Speak first launched in South Korea in 2019, where Speak has now become the number one language learning app, and we now serve learners across many markets and 15+ languages. Speak is one of the world's leading AI companies, with over $150m raised in venture investment from OpenAI, Accel, Founders Fund, Khosla Ventures, and more, with a distributed team across San Francisco, Seoul, Tokyo, Taipei, and Ljubljana.
- Learning a language can change a life by opening doors to new cultures, careers, and communities.
- Two billion people around the world are actively trying to learn a language, but the best way to learn (one-on-one tutoring) is hard to access at scale and hasn't been meaningfully improved in decades.
- Speak is building a human-level, AI-powered tutor in your pocket: a conversation-first experience that lets learners actually speak, get instant feedback, and progress through carefully designed lessons.
- The result is a complete path from beginner to confident speaker across multiple languages.
- Speak first launched in South Korea in 2019, where Speak has now become the number one language learning app, and we now serve learners across many markets and 15+ languages.
- Speak is one of the world's leading AI companies, with over $150m raised in venture investment from OpenAI, Accel, Founders Fund, Khosla Ventures, and more, with a distributed team across San Francisco, Seoul, Tokyo, Taipei, and Ljubljana.
- we're growing very quickly, we've most recently raised our Series C from some of the top investors in the valley, and we've achieved product-market fit in our initial markets.
- You'd join at a magical time when a single person could significantly change the course of the company.
This listing is sourced directly from Speak's careers page and normalized into a canonical job model.