Summary
About this role
Tech Lead - Cloud Platform
Engineering
Prolific
Prolific is not just another player in the AI space – we are the architects of the human data infrastructure that's reshaping the landscape of AI development. In a world where foundational AI technologies are increasingly commoditized, it's the quality and diversity of human-generated data that truly differentiates products and models.
The role
Our Cloud Platform team empowers developers to build and deploy their applications swiftly, securely, and seamlessly. As the Technical Lead of our Cloud Platform team, you'll be responsible for Prolific's technical foundation, ensuring our infrastructure remains scalable, reliable, and ready for growth. You'll be a trusted technical expert to leaders and teams across Prolific, architect scalable cloud infrastructure solutions, and lead a team that enables rapid, secure delivery at scale.
What you’ll bring to the role
- GCP & Kubernetes Expertise: 5+ years with Google Cloud Platform, GKE, and the Kubernetes ecosystem with experience managing large-scale production clusters
- Cloud Platform Experience: Proven experience leading cloud platform initiatives, with expertise in architecting solutions.
- Developer-focused: Track record of designing golden paths and self-service solutions that reduce developer friction while maintaining security and compliance
- Technical Leadership: Proven ability to mentor engineers, drive technical decisions, and collaborate with cross-functional stakeholders
- Compliance & Security: Experience implementing cloud compliance standards (SOC2, ISO-27001) and security best practices
It would be advantageous if you also had:
- People management experience
- Familiarity with GCP Security Command Center
- Experience with AWS and event driven distributed systems
- Experience with ArgoCD
What you’ll be doing in the role
- Leading the technical direction of Cloud Platform projects, ensuring the delivery of scalable, high-quality solutions, and providing guidance and mentorship to team members
- Design and architect robust Kubernetes and GCP solutions that enable rapid, secure application deployment.
- Serve as a trusted technical advisor to product teams, engineering managers, and leadership on platform capabilities and constraints.
- Mentor platform engineers, provide technical guidance, and foster a culture of operational excellence.
- Drive SOC2, ISO-27001, and security compliance initiatives across cloud environments.
- Make architectural decisions, participate in technical design discussions, and establish Cloud Platform engineering standards.
- Assisting in hiring, onboarding, and training new team members
- Collaborating with the Engineering Managers and other Technical Leads to develop and uphold good engineering standards and best practices
- Collaborating with stakeholders to define scope, timelines and required resources
Key Technologies
- Cloud Platforms: Google Cloud Platform and AWS
- Programming Languages: Python, JavaScript, and TypeScript
- Frameworks: Vue.js, Django Rest Framework, Container-based and Serverless architectures
- Databases: MongoDB and DynamoDB
- DevOps and Monitoring: CircleCI, GitHub Actions, Kubernetes, Celery, EventBridge and DataDog
Why Prolific is a great place to work
We've built a unique platform that connects researchers and companies with a global pool of participants, enabling the collection of high-quality, ethically sourced human behavioral data and feedback. This data is the cornerstone of developing more accurate, nuanced, and aligned AI systems.
We believe that the next leap in AI capabilities won't come solely from scaling existing models, but from integrating diverse human perspectives and behaviors into AI development. By providing this crucial human data infrastructure, Prolific is positioning itself at the forefront of the next wave of AI innovation – one that reflects the breath and the best of humanity.
Working for us will place you at the forefront of AI innovation, providing access to our unique human data platform and opportunities for groundbreaking research. Join us to enjoy a competitive salary, benefits, and remote working within our impactful, mission-driven culture.
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Other facts
About Prolific
Prolific Making diverse, high-quality data easily available to anyone, anywhere
Prolific helps dedicated research teams to collect the very highest-quality human-powered data - at scale - using our simple-to-use platform to target and manage participants from our diverse, vetted participant pool.
The truth matters: the best decisions, and biggest discoveries, are built on the highest-quality data. And with the increasing proliferation of AI, access to reliable, diverse data to develop and train AI models has never been more important.
Created by researchers for researchers, Prolific was founded to provide a better way for researchers and organisations to get high-quality human data and feedback at scale for important research.
Now, more than 30,000 researchers across academia and industry use Prolific to gather definitive human data and feedback from reliable, engaged and fairly-treated participants – with a new study launched every 3 minutes.
Active Founders
Phelim Bradley Founder Co-Founder and CEO of prolific.co.Prolific is a platform that makes it easy to run high quality online research. We manage a diverse pool of 100,000+ verified participants and provide access to an ecosystem of tools to run research on them. Previously, I did a PhD in Bioinformatics, where I wrote software to analyze and search bacterial data sets using graph data structures.
Phelim Bradley Founder Co-Founder and CEO of prolific.co.Prolific is a platform that makes it easy to run high quality online research. We manage a diverse pool of 100,000+ verified participants and provide access to an ecosystem of tools to run research on them. Previously, I did a PhD in Bioinformatics, where I wrote software to analyze and search bacterial data sets using graph data structures.
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What you'll do
- Lead the technical direction of Cloud Platform projects and ensure the delivery of scalable, high-quality solutions. Mentor platform engineers and drive compliance initiatives across cloud environments.
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