Senior Software Engineer, Quora

• Availability for meetings and impromptu communication during Quora's “coordination hours" (Mon-Fri: 9am-3pm Pacific Time)
• 5+ years of full-time product development experience building consumer or enterprise web products (internships excluded)
• 2+ years of industry experience in online advertising or related area
• Excellent proficiency with Python or similar programming language
• Knowledge of backend storage systems such as MySQL, HBase, Memcached, or Redis
• Knowledge of frontend technologies such as React, Javascript, Typescript
• Experience with large-scale distributed systems

Desirable

• Since we first launched our advertising platform, we've already grown to support thousands of advertisers who are reaching over 300 million monthly unique visitors on Quora
• Today, we're working on a broad range of areas to support our data-intensive needs: metrics and insights reporting, audience targeting, low-latency real-time ad delivery, and a suite of advertiser tools to create and optimize campaigns, to name just a few
• As an engineer on the Ads product team, you'll work on efforts focused on generating revenue for the success of the company and mission. As part of a highly cross-functional development team, you'll work closely with machine learning engineers, data scientists, product managers, designers, build data-intensive applications and systems to enable advertisers to reach a well-targeted audience, and ensure that our users experience ads comparable to the quality of the content they appear alongside
• Drive projects from ideation to production using the full technology stack
• Architect, design, and implement features for our mission-critical online ad platform at massive scale with data-driven iteration
• Identify high impact features that achieve engineering and revenue goals, and be able to explain rationale for your decisions
• Work with designers, fellow engineers, and data scientists to prototype and implement functionality and analyze impact