Senior Site Reliability Engineer, Quizlet

Platform

$192.5-231.6k

+ Company stock options

Kubernetes

GCP

Python

Linux

Terraform

BigQuery

Datadog

Senior and Expert level

San Francisco Bay Area

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

201-500 employees

B2CArtificial IntelligenceEducationLearningSaaS

Be an early applicant

$192.5-231.6k

+ Company stock options

Kubernetes

GCP

Python

Linux

Terraform

BigQuery

Datadog

Senior and Expert level

San Francisco Bay Area

More information about location

3+ days a week in office

201-500 employees

B2CArtificial IntelligenceEducationLearningSaaS

Company mission

Quizlet's mission is to give every student the tools and confidence to succeed, no matter their motivation or what they’re striving to achieve.

Job

Company

Role

Who you are

5+ years of experience in SRE, infrastructure, or systems software engineering
Strong proficiency in Go and/or Python, with experience automating operational workflows
Deep understanding of Kubernetes (GKE), Istio, and distributed systems
Hands-on experience with CI/CD systems (GitHub Actions, CircleCI, ArgoCD) and Terraform
Expertise in Datadog, incident response, and observability-driven engineering
Solid foundation in Linux systems, networking, and GCP or similar cloud environments
Proven ability to improve reliability, reduce MTTR, and lead by example
At Quizlet, we’re excited about passionate people joining our team—even if you don’t check every box on the requirements list. We value unique perspectives and believe everyone has something meaningful to contribute

What the job involves

Join us to design and deliver AI-powered learning tools that scale across the world and unlock human potential
As a Senior Site Reliability Engineer, you’ll design and build the automation, observability, and systems architecture that enable Quizlet to scale reliably for the next generation of AI-powered learning
You’ll engineer software, tools, and processes that improve service performance, reduce operational toil, and ensure our platform meets strict SLOs for global learners
Develop and maintain automation and tooling that ensures 99.95% uptime under peak load
Build self-healing and auto-remediation systems for our Kubernetes clusters (GKE) and service mesh (Istio)
Optimize our CI/CD toolchain (GitHub Actions, CircleCI, ArgoCD) to improve deployment velocity and reliability
Design and deploy deep observability and diagnostics in Datadog, leading post-incident reviews with Jeli
Conduct capacity planning and performance tuning across databases (Spanner, PlanetScale, BigQuery)
Collaborate with product engineering to define SLOs and ensure new services are resilient by design

Our take

Quizlet has built a large-scale business around simple-to-share and simple-to-use products. Its free flashcard maker helps students prepare for exams. Those insights fuel Quizlet Plus, the startup’s subscription product that charges an annual fee for access to more features, including tutoring services.

After a long period of runaway growth, during which the company achieved a $1 billion valuation, Quizlet has been somewhat buffered by the general market downturn affecting the tech sector in 2022, which hit EdTech particularly heavily. It has responded by a shakeup of its leadership team, appointing AirBnB and Starship Technologies veteran Lex Bayer.

With an entrepreneurial management team and a strong user base of over 60 million students and teachers, Quizlet seems likely to weather the current economic situation and resume its growth in the near future.

Freddie

Company Specialist at Welcome to the Jungle

Insights

Top investors

75% employee growth in 12 months

Glassdoor (3.5)

Trustpilot (1.5)

Company

Funding (last 2 of 3 rounds)

May 2020

$30m

SERIES C

Feb 2018

$20m

SERIES B

Total funding: $62m

Company benefits

Comprehensive health, dental, vision and disability plans for you and your family. 100% paid premiums for employees, 75% for dependents
20 days of PTO, 10 paid holidays, and 5 volunteer days
Generous family leave plan
$1,000 stipend each year for professional development
$100/month reimbursement towards wellness, plus memberships to physical & mental health resources
Stock options
401k match
Free lunch and dinner, healthy snacks & drinks daily
Commuter Benefits - we'll help cover 50% of your public commuter & parking costs, plus pre-tax FSA.

Company HQ

China Basin, San Francisco, CA

Leadership

Dave Margulius

(Board Member)

Currently Advisor at Law Students for Climate Accountability. Previously on the Board of Directors at Churchill Club and Founder at Enterprise Insight.

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