--- title: 'Platform Engineering Manager at Prolific' canonical: 'https://feeny.ai/job/platform-engineering-manager-prolific-united-kingdom-pypqwdx6ektv' type: 'job' last_seen: '2026-09-06' --- # Platform Engineering Manager at Prolific - **Company:** Prolific - **Location:** United Kingdom - **Work type:** remote - **Posted:** 2026-07-31 - **Last confirmed live:** 2026-09-06 - **Apply:** https://job-boards.eu.greenhouse.io/prolific/jobs/4928993101 ## Job description Platform Engineering Manager Engineering 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. As our Platform Engineering Manager, you will lead our Cloud Platform and SRE teams, taking charge of the technical foundation and reliability that allows Prolific to scale securely and efficiently. ## Why Prolific At Prolific, our product development group is a powerhouse of Engineering, Platform, Product, Data, Design, and Research – all working in lockstep. You'll thrive in cross-functional teams, each with a clear mission and the freedom to self-organize and innovate towards the best possible outcomes. We're passionate about moving fast and continuously improving, and we champion strong engineering principles and a culture of strong ownership. As a Platform Engineering Manager, you've built deep technical credibility as a senior individual contributor, solving complex infrastructure and business problems firsthand,before progressing into building high-performing teams and raising the bar through structured management practices. Your expertise will directly impact the technical excellence of your teams' work. You'll be instrumental in driving technical decision-making and collaboratively building scalable, resilient, and maintainable systems that power the future of AI. ## What you'll be doing - Unified Leadership: Provide leadership, coaching, and professional growth opportunities for one or more Platform teams, fostering a culture of high performance and ownership. - Infrastructure Ownership: Drive the strategic direction for our infrastructure and platform ensuring robust management of our services like Kubernetes (GKE) clusters. Focus on continuous improvement, operational excellence, and innovation. - Champion SRE Culture: Own availability and embed SRE principles across the organization, including defining SLOs, SLAs, error budgets, and enhancing observability and incident remediation. - Platform & Developer Experience: Own the developer-facing platform — golden paths, self-service infrastructure, and internal tooling — so teams can provision, deploy, and operate services safely and independently. Treat the platform as a product with its own roadmap and adoption metrics, not just a set of shared services. - Security and Compliance: Ensure our cloud environments remain secure and compliant with standards such as SOC2 and ISO-27001. ## What you'll bring - Infrastructure Leadership: Proven experience leading teams in the infrastructure and SRE domains, with a track record of scaling platforms and people. - Technical Expertise: Several years of deep expertise in Google Cloud Platform (GCP), Kubernetes, and Infrastructure-as-Code (Terraform/Terragrunt, Crossplane), with GitOps workflows using tools like ArgoCD. - Reliability & Architecture: Solid understanding of complex infrastructure and application architecture, observability principles, and incident management. - Stability & Velocity: Experience balancing the need for platform stability and reliability with the goal of increasing developer productivity and velocity. - Bridge Builder: Fluency in translating complex technical solutions and their feasibility into clear, compelling narratives for non-technical stakeholders. Our Technology Stack (You'll be working with these technologies): - Cloud Platforms: Google Cloud Platform (GCP), Amazon Web Services (AWS) - Infrastructure as Code: Terraform, Terragrunt, Crossplane - Programming Languages: Python, JavaScript, TypeScript - Frameworks: Django Rest Framework, container-based services, Serverless architectures - Databases: MongoDB, Postgres, ElasticSearch, and DynamoDB - DevOps & Monitoring Tools: CircleCI, GitHub Actions, Kubernetes, Celery, EventBridge, DataDog Join us at Prolific and play a critical role in shaping the human data infrastructure that is powering the next generation of AI innovation. Apply now and let's build the future, together. Why is Prolific 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 breadth 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. Links to more information on Prolific [Benefits](https://www.notion.so/prolific/dbc97f2b3ff24f1bb6fa834a2c9c3283?v=4f874e88e46a4f54afd8bf62f1db19ed&p=9f2c1de05dfa43338d48c20362bfead1&pm=c) [External Handbook](https://www.notion.so/prolific/dbc97f2b3ff24f1bb6fa834a2c9c3283?v=4f874e88e46a4f54afd8bf62f1db19ed) [Website](https://www.prolific.com/) [Youtube](https://www.youtube.com/@JoinProlific) Privacy Statement By submitting your application, you agree that Prolific may collect your personal data for recruiting and global organization planning. Prolific's [Candidate Privacy Notice](https://www.notion.so/prolific/Policy-Privacy-Notice-for-Candidates-f94a136a67544388b4888bc436451b57) explains what personal information Prolific may process, where Prolific may process your personal information, its purposes for processing your personal information, and the rights you can exercise over Prolific use of your personal information. ## About Prolific ## Company Overview - **One-liner**: Prolific is a technology company that provides a platform for collecting high-quality, human-derived data from verified participants, used by AI developers, researchers, and organizations for AI training, surveys, and user research. - **Entity Type**: Private (Series A) - **Headquarters**: London, UK (with a New York City hub and remote presence across the US and UK) - **Founded**: 2014 - **Founders**: Phelim Bradley, Ph.D. (CEO & Co-founder) ## Core Business - **Primary industry/industries**: AI data services, market research, academic research, human-in-the-loop AI - **Target customers**: B2B — AI developers, academic researchers, product teams, and enterprise organizations (35,000+ data collectors use the platform) - **Mission or purpose statement**: "To help thinkers, creators, and innovators make the impossible possible" by building a future where human insight drives breakthroughs in science, technology, and society. ## Products & Services - **Prolific Platform**: A web-based platform that connects researchers and AI developers with a pool of 200,000+ active, verified participants for online studies. Studies launch every 2 minutes, with a 97% completion rate and data sets delivered in under 2 hours on average. - **AI Training & Evaluation**: Human feedback from representative populations for preference tuning, safety evaluations, and benchmarks. Used to defend AI model quality. - **Research Services**: Accelerated research through insights from verified participants, supporting behavioral research, surveys, and user testing. - **Participant Marketplace**: A paid participant side where individuals can join paid online studies with flexible scheduling and real payouts. ## Market Standing - **Valuation/Market Cap**: Not publicly disclosed - **Key Metric**: $32 million in Series A funding (secured in 2023) - **Notable Investors/Partners**: Series A funding of $32M (lead investors not specified in available data); trusted by thousands of organizations including cutting-edge AI startups and Ivy League universities. - **Growth Signals**: - Expanded into the US with a New York City hub (announced February 2024) - 172 open job listings across multiple departments (as of mid-2026) - 700+ studies launch every day on the platform - Participants from 38+ countries speaking 80+ languages - 10,000+ organizations use Prolific - 35,000+ data collectors use the platform ## Competitive Advantages - **Verified participant pool**: All participants are actively vetted, verified, and fairly paid, ensuring high-quality, trustworthy data without the noise of typical survey platforms. - **Speed and reliability**: Data sets are delivered in under 2 hours on average, with a 97% study completion rate — a significant moat for time-sensitive AI and research projects. - **Representative populations**: Ability to source diverse, representative participant pools for AI safety evals and benchmarks, critical for regulatory compliance and model defensibility. - **Trusted brand**: 10 years of operation, trusted by leading academics, AI developers, and Ivy League universities. ## Strategic Focus - **AI and human data**: Continuing to build the "biggest pool of human-derived data in the world" with a focus on powering AI training, safety evaluations, and benchmarks. - **US expansion**: Opening a New York City hub and hiring across the US (San Francisco, Seattle, New York) signals a major push into the North American market. - **Product development**: Active hiring for product, engineering, data science, and AI research roles indicates ongoing platform innovation and scaling. - **Enterprise growth**: Hiring for Strategic Customer Success Managers, Solutions Engineers, and Strategic Account Executives suggests a focus on enterprise and strategic accounts. ## Why Work Here - **Remote-first culture**: Prolific is remote-first with flexible work arrangements. Employees report high satisfaction with working location freedom (FlexScore data). Regular company-wide and team meet-ups, plus an annual in-person get-together. - **Autonomy and flexibility**: 81% of employees feel they have complete autonomy over their work; 83% are happy with flexible hours; 78% report good work-life balance. - **Benefits**: Home office budget for new joiners with annual top-up, personal learning and development budget, share options, and competitive benefits (86% employee satisfaction with benefits). - **Diversity and inclusion**: Strong DEI focus with a formal Diversity, Equity and Inclusion Monitoring statement; a culture that celebrates differences and removes barriers. - **Growth opportunity**: Join a fast-scaling business backed by $32M in Series A funding with a clear mission and strong product-market fit. - **Culture principles**: "We care deeply about our customers," "We embrace change," "We aim high," "We win together," "We make every minute count," "We are optimistic and find a way." - **Hiring process**: Structured 4-stage process (talent call, hiring manager interview, panel interview with task compensation, final principles interview) with feedback surveys to continuously improve. ## Sources 1. [prolific.com](https://www.prolific.com/) 2. [prolific.com/about](https://www.prolific.com/about) 3. [prolific.com/careers](https://www.prolific.com/careers) 4. [job-boards.greenhouse.io/prolific](http://job-boards.greenhouse.io/prolific) 5. 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