Tech Lead, Prolific
Cloud Platform
High-quality human-powered data at scale
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High-quality human-powered data at scale
101-200 employees
Be an early applicant
101-200 employees
Company mission
To accelerate human understanding.
Role
Who you are
- 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
Desirable
- People management experience
- Familiarity with GCP Security Command Center
- Experience with AWS and event driven distributed systems
- Experience with ArgoCD
What the job involves
- 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
- 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
- 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
Our take
Founded in 2014, Prolific is a marketplace and data analysis company that provides researchers with a network of test participants. From eye-tracking to human-facing AI applications, Prolific’s network acts as both a recruiter for test participants and as a marketplace for researchers scientists to hire said participants.
Founded in 2014, it’s already used by the likes of Google, Stanford, Oxford and Kings College London Universities to test new AI products, providing “stress tests” for its clients. Prolific’s user base now counts over 2000 potential test subjects, whilst researchers leverage its network to launch surveys, tests and evaluation tasks every 2 minutes.
An indicator of Prolific’s success is maintaining of profitability for years after its initial Y Combinator investment. In 2024, it raised $32 million in Series A to maintain its healthy position. This funding will allow it to expand its operations.
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Company Specialist at Welcome to the Jungle
Insights
Company
Funding (1 round)
Jul 2023
$32.8m
Series A
Total funding: $32.8m
Company benefits
- Bank holiday swaps
- Enhanced sick pay
- L&D budget – £1000 per year
- 25 days annual leave + bank holidays
Company values
- We win together
- We care deeply about our customers
- We make every minute count
- We're optimistic and find a way
- We embrace change
- We aim high
Company HQ
Vauxhall, London, UK
Leadership
Phelim Bradley
(Co-Founder & CEO)Currently also Venture Partner at Pioneer Fund. Previously Dphil at Wellcome Trust Centre for Human Genetics, Bioinformatics Intern at Illumina and MPhil of Computer Biology at University of Cambridge.
Diversity, Equity & Inclusion at Prolific
- At Prolific, we want all of our employees, researchers, and participants to be included and so we commit to having ongoing discussions about diversity and inclusion and regularly look at areas where we can improve. This policy aims to: - treat all our employees fairly and respectfully, regardless of their job status, location, or work hours ⏰ - avoid any illegal discrimination based on age, disability, gender, gender identity, marriage or civil partnership, pregnancy and maternity, race or ethnicity, religion or belief, sexual orientation, and traveler status. These are protected by the UK Equality Act (2010), Ireland Employment Equality Act (2004), Americans with Disabilities Act (ADA) at the federal level and the New York State Human Rights Law (NYSHRL) at the state level. ⚖️ - refuse to tolerate any kind of illegal discrimination 🙅🏻♀️. This includes pay and benefits, work conditions, grievance and discipline handling, termination, redundancy, parental leave, flexible working requests, employment selection, promotion, training, and other opportunities for development.
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