About the Team:
Quizlet’s Platform Engineering team gets big things done. We are a team of curious individuals with experience in software engineering, distributed systems, site reliability, traffic shaping, developer experience, and all things backend. We love to solve scaling challenges as code and strive to build resilient distributed systems that scale while enabling feature velocity. We build, evolve and operate tools, frameworks and infrastructure that handle application delivery from source to production.
Currently, we run production in Kubernetes and continue to modernize other parts of the infrastructure using cloud-native technologies. To automate application delivery and all things infrastructure we follow the gitOps philosophy to perform continuous delivery and infrastructure as Code (IaC) practices. We follow Agile development methodologies to plan our projects.
Quizlet embraces a philosophy of service ownership by empowering service developers to build highly observable, reliable, and resilient services.
About the Role:
As a Sr. Platform Engineer, you will be working on strategic projects to figure out solutions to continue making our systems more resilient as we move to a service-oriented architecture. This role requires a strong partnership with the Product Engineering and Technical Infrastructure teams. You’ll be working on strategic projects aiming to increase service reliability, improve observability, and safe/rapid service delivery while ensuring feature velocity and cost efficiency. An enabler of repeatable processes, you will contribute to building, extending, or improving existing tools and frameworks that not only reduce toil but also enable Quizlet teams to perform tasks more swiftly, securely, and reliably.
This is a hybrid role based out of our Denver, Los Angeles, New York, Seattle, and San Francisco office.
In this role, you will:
- Collaborate on projects for larger initiatives that enable Quizlet’s growth
- Contribute to key projects that solve feature velocity, scaling, performance, and infrastructure problems.
- Improve our ability to understand and respond to the performance of our systems
- Enhance service insights and observability that tell us details about our traffic patterns
- Use a combination of skills in systems and software engineering, configuration management, and networking to build and run distributed, fault-tolerant software systems and infrastructure to create reusable services and modularized infrastructure components
- Drive automation to reduce toil
- Be in the thick of solving problems of running systems at scale
- Support production by participating in an on-call rotation
What you bring to the table:
- 5+ years of experience as a Platform Engineering building and enabling the creation of scalable, observable and resilient distributed services in cloud native infrastructure environments
- You feel energized by solving unique problems
- Passionate about automation and building resilient products
- Enthusiasm building software and system integrations to bridge the gaps between our core infrastructure and the software we deliver to our customers
- Proficiency with containers, Kubernetes and Terraform
- You are fluent in at least one of our languages (GoLang and/or Python) and willing to dive into other ones, as needed
- Familiarity with incident management/response best practices with large scale distributed systems
- Systematic problem-solving approach, coupled with good communication skills and a strong sense of ownership
- Ability to work across team boundaries to identify and solve pain points that affect engineering velocity, system resilience, system/service performance
Bonus points if you have:
- Significant production experience with Kubernetes at very large scale
- Familiarity using service mesh implementations with a proxy (Istio, LinkerD, Consul Connect, Envoy)
- Expertise in building platforms that enable services to be delivered via software to enable Product teams to be self sufficient and operate the services they own
- Familiarity with Hashicorp products like TFCloud
- Proficiency with Google Cloud Platform
- Exposure to gRPC, distributed tracing, microservices
Compensation, Benefits & Perks:
- Quizlet is an equal opportunity employer. We celebrate diversity and are committed to creating an inclusive environment for all employees. Salary transparency helps to mitigate unfair hiring practices when it comes to discrimination and pay gaps. Total compensation for this role is market competitive, including a starting base salary of $125,000 - $185,000, depending on location and experience, as well as company stock options
- Collaborate with your manager and team to create a healthy work-life balance
- 20 vacation days (and we expect you to take them!)
- Competitive health, dental, and vision insurance (100% employee and 75% dependent PPO, HMO, VSP Choice)
- Employer-sponsored 401k plan with company match
- Access to LinkedIn Learning and other resources to support professional growth
- Paid Family Leave, FSA, HSA, Commuter benefits, Wellness benefits
- 40 hours of annual paid time off to participate in volunteer programs of choice
