Speak · 1 day ago
Platform Engineer
San Francisco Bay Area
Full-time
Hybrid
Senior Level
7+ years expSpeak is a leading AI company on a mission to reinvent language learning. As a Platform Engineer, you will ensure the reliability and resilience of the systems that support their global language learning experience, leading efforts to scale infrastructure and enhance operational tooling.
Artificial Intelligence (AI)E-LearningLanguage LearningSpeech Recognition
Responsibilities
Own the reliability of Speak’s infrastructure across GCP, Kubernetes, and our Node.js/Postgres stack
Lead response for P0/P1 incidents, drive postmortems, and ensure we’re learning from every outage
Improve observability, alerting, and on-call processes so we catch issues before users do
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
Set short term and long term roadmaps to ensure stability for our growing user base
Be a thought leader and coach around platform and infrastructure engineering principles—blameless culture, operational maturity, and continuous improvement
Qualification
Required
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 incident management and root cause analysis skills—you know how to lead under pressure
Experience building and maintaining CI/CD pipelines and deployment safety tooling
Strong systems thinking, with the ability to identify failure points and proactively harden services
Deep sense of ownership and a desire to make infrastructure a force multiplier for the rest of the org
Preferred
Familiarity with cost optimization strategies in cloud-native environments
Background in security, chaos engineering, or disaster recovery planning
Contributions to internal tooling, automation, or developer productivity initiatives
Benefits
Join a fantastic, tight-knit team at the right time: 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.
Do your life's work with people you’ll love working with: we care strongly about our craft and want every person at Speak to feel like they're growing every day.
Global in nature: We're live in over 40 countries and launching in a number of new markets soon.
Impact people's lives in a major way: Learning a language is one of the single most life-changing skills one can learn.
Company
Speak
The language learning app that gets you speaking
51-200 employees
H1B Sponsorship
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2025 (3)
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Funding
Current Stage
Growth StageTotal Funding
$152MKey Investors
AccelBuckley VenturesLachy Groom
2024-12-10Series C· $78M
2024-06-21Series B· $20M
2023-07-19Series B· $16M
Leadership Team
Andrew Hsu
Cofounder & CTO
Recent News
2025-12-11
2025-12-03
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