Platform Engineer, Quizlet
User Foundation
$167.4-259.4k
+ Stock Options
More information about location
3 days a week in office
Learning tools for students and teachers
Open for applications
Learning tools for students and teachers
501-1000 employees
Open for applications
$167.4-259.4k
+ Stock Options
More information about location
3 days a week in office
501-1000 employees
Company mission
To give every student the tools and confidence to succeed, no matter their motivation or what they’re striving to achieve.
Role
Who you are
- Strong backend or platform engineering experience building reliable, scalable systems
- Experience with notification systems, messaging infrastructure, or lifecycle platforms
- Experience supporting product experimentation, feature flags, or A/B testing systems
- Familiarity with event-driven systems, queues, APIs, and service reliability
- Strong judgment around user experience, notification quality, privacy, and guardrails
- Ability to work cross-functionally with Product, Data, and Engineering teams
- Comfort operating in a fast-moving environment where speed and reliability both matter
- At Quizlet, we’re excited about passionate people joining our team—even if you don’t check every box on the requirements list
Desirable
- Experience with email or push delivery systems
- Experience with Braze or similar lifecycle messaging platforms
- Experience with feature flag systems or experimentation frameworks
- Familiarity with user targeting, audience logic, or growth analytics
- Experience building internal tooling for operators or product teams
What the job involves
- We’re looking for a Platform Engineer to build and operate the systems that power lifecycle messaging and in-product growth experimentation across Quizlet
- This role focuses on the infrastructure behind email, push, and in-product messaging, as well as the tooling that enables rapid, measurable growth experiments
- You’ll work closely with Product, Data, and Engineering partners to improve activation, engagement, retention, and reactivation through reliable notification systems and fast iteration loops
- This is a high-impact role for someone who enjoys building platform capabilities that directly shape user growth and engagement
- Own email, push, and in-product messaging orchestration infrastructure
- Maintain messaging decisioning logic, eligibility rules, and frequency guardrails
- Build and maintain systems that support lifecycle programs across activation, engagement, retention, and reactivation
- Build and support growth experimentation infrastructure, including feature flag integration, experiment rollout controls, and exposure logging
- Partner with Growth PMs and product teams to launch and measure in-product experiments quickly and safely
- Ensure notification and experiment systems are observable, reliable, and easy to use
- Help define guardrails so lifecycle and experiment programs remain compliant with privacy and Trust & Safety standards
- Improve the feedback loop between experiment results, user behavior signals, and product decisions
Our take
Quizlet has evolved from a simple flashcard tool into one of the most recognizable consumer learning platforms, now serving over 60M active users. It reaches two-third of US high schoolers and half of college students, putting it among the top 20 US websites and leading education apps on mobile.
Its core strength lies in helping students learn quickly and effectively through tools like flashcards, practice tests, AI-generated study guides, and now course-specific collaborative folders. By focusing on efficiency and relevance, Quizlet has become a go-to resource for students who want targeted, outcome-driven study support. And its collaborative features also allow large groups of students to share and refine materials together, so learning really is a shared experience.
Recent expansions - including Course-Powered Quizlet and its deepened partnership with Brand Metrics - show the platform's continued momentum. With AI-driven personalization, independent ad measurement, and growing peer-recommended content, Quizlet is strengthening trust with advertisers while meeting modern student expectations. And these advancements sure position Quizlet as a leading, forward-thinking plater in ed-tech.
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Company Specialist at Welcome to the Jungle
Insights
75% employee growth in 12 months
Company
Funding (last 2 of 3 rounds)
May 2020
$30m
SERIES C
Feb 2018
$20m
SERIES B
Total funding: $62m
Company benefits
- Competitive Healthcare: Comprehensive health, dental, vision and disability plans for you and your family. 100% paid premiums for employees, 75% for dependents
- PTO & Family Benefits: Everyone gets 20 days of PTO, a minimum of 10 paid holidays, and 5 volunteer days off. We also provide resources for growing families, such as Carrot (fertility & family forming) and UrbanSitter (daycare & nannies). Our generous family leave plan offers 12 weeks of leave plus disability leave for birthing mothers when welcoming a new little learner into their family.
- Learning & Development: Here at Quizlet, we invest in our employees’ career development to support learning and professional growth. Employees have access to LinkedIn Learning, an on-demand learning solution designed to help them gain new skills and advance their careers. We host speakers and workshops and also offer support for other professional development opportunities.
- Shared Financial Success: Competitive salaries, stock options and a 401k match that makes saving for retirement easy.
- Wellness: We strive to promote the physical and mental health & well-being of our employees. We offer resources for mental health & well-being, plus a $100/month reimbursement towards wellness and fitness memberships.
- Commuter Benefits: We don’t have a school bus, but we'll help cover 50% of your public commuter & parking costs, plus pre-tax FSA. If you decide to work late, your ride home is on us.
Company HQ
China Basin, San Francisco, CA
Leadership
Kurt Beidler
(CEO)Prior to joining Quizlet in 2024, Kurt was the Co-CEO of Swift. He also spent 17 years at Amazon in various roles, including General Manager of Automotive Sales, Advertising, and Amazon Kids as well as Director of Kindle Content in Beijing.
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