Senior Platform Engineer, Quizlet

• 5+ years of experience as a Platform Engineer 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 for 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're fluent in at least one of our languages (GoLang and/or Python) and willing to dive into other languages as needed
• Familiarity with incident management/response best practices with large-scale distributed systems
• A 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

Desirable

• As a Sr Platform Engineer, you will work 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
• Additionally, you will enable Quizlet teams to perform tasks more swiftly, securely, and reliably
• Our charter is "To deliver a performant and delightful customer experience on a low-friction platform for developers."
• 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 our on-call rotation