Senior Engineering Manager, Quizlet
Trust & Safety
$235.8-311.1k
+ Company stock options
More information about location
3+ days a week in office
Learning tools for students and teachers
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Learning tools for students and teachers
501-1000 employees
Be an early applicant
$235.8-311.1k
+ Company 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
- 12+ years of software engineering experience with 3+ years managing and scaling engineering teams
- Proven experience leading Trust & Safety, Integrity, or Platform Safety engineering teams in a production environment
- Strong people leadership skills, including coaching senior engineers, technical leads, and emerging managers
- Experience owning execution for complex, cross-functional initiatives in partnership with Product and Operations teams
- Hands-on experience building or operating content moderation, abuse prevention, fraud detection, or enforcement systems
- Strong understanding of policy-driven enforcement, escalation, and appeals workflows
- Experience designing systems that support human-in-the-loop moderation and Trust & Safety Operations at scale
- Familiarity with global trust & safety challenges, including harassment, spam, manipulation, and misuse
- Strong background in distributed systems, data pipelines, and service-oriented architectures
- Experience with ML-assisted safety systems, rule-based detection, or risk scoring frameworks
- Ability to design systems with reliability, auditability, and explainability as first-class concerns
- Experience supporting incident response, on-call rotations, and postmortem-driven improvement
- Experience building or supporting safeguards for AI-generated or AI-assisted content
- Understanding of risks related to prompt abuse, policy evasion, automation, and content manipulation
- Familiarity with content authenticity, labeling, or provenance mechanisms is a strong plus
- Ability to balance rapid AI innovation with responsible deployment and user protection
- Proven ability to partner closely with Trust & Safety Operations, Legal, Policy, Privacy, and Security teams
- Strong communication skills for translating policy and risk requirements into technical execution
- Sound judgment and calm decision-making in high-stakes or ambiguous situations
- Deep commitment to user safety, trust, and ethical technology
What the job involves
- We are seeking a Senior Engineering Manager to lead Quizlet’s Trust & Safety engineering efforts, building the systems that protect learners, educators, and creators while enabling healthy, high-quality participation across our community
- In this role, you will lead teams responsible for moderation, abuse prevention, community integrity, and AI safety infrastructure, working closely with Trust & Safety, Legal, Policy, and Product partners to ensure Quizlet remains a safe, trusted place for learning at global scale
- Lead and grow engineering teams responsible for trust & safety systems, including content moderation, abuse and fraud detection, and enforcement workflows
- Design and scale proactive safety mechanisms, including automated detection, risk scoring, and policy-driven enforcement
- Build tools and platforms that support human-in-the-loop moderation, appeals, and case management
- Establish engineering best practices for reliability, auditability, and explainability in safety systems
- Design and evolve community integrity and contribution quality systems that promote safe, constructive participation
- Build reputation, signaling, and feedback mechanisms that help surface high-quality content and interactions while reducing harmful behavior
- Partner with Product to shape community experiences that encourage positive engagement and discourage abuse at scale
- Strengthen safety capabilities for AI-generated and AI-assisted content, including detection, labeling, and transparency mechanisms
- Build safeguards to prevent misuse of AI features, including prompt abuse, policy evasion, and automated spam or manipulation
- Support content authenticity, provenance, and policy enforcement for AI-powered learning experiences
- Partner closely with Trust & Safety Operations, Legal, Policy, Privacy, and Security teams to translate policies into scalable technical systems
- Ensure safety systems support privacy, consent, and regulatory compliance across regions
- Contribute to incident response, postmortems, and continuous improvement of Quizlet’s safety posture
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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