Site Reliability Engineer, Quizlet
Cloud Infrastructure
$120-168.5k
+ Stock options
More information about location
3+ days a week in office
Learning tools for students and teachers
Be an early applicant
Learning tools for students and teachers
501-1000 employees
Be an early applicant
$120-168.5k
+ 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
- 2+ years of professional experience in SRE, DevOps, Platform Engineering, or related infrastructure roles
- Previous internship or professional experience writing code in a software development role (backend, full-stack, or similar)
- Solid programming skills in languages such as Python, Go, PHP
- Familiarity with CI/CD systems and infrastructure-as-code tools (e.g., Terraform, GitHub Actions)
- Understanding of Linux systems, networking fundamentals, and cloud-native concepts
- Exposure to Kubernetes, container orchestration, or service mesh technologies is a plus
- Experience with monitoring and alerting tools (e.g., Prometheus, Grafana, Datadog) is helpful
- A growth mindset with interest in continuous improvement, root cause analysis, and reducing operational burden
- Good communication and collaboration skills; comfortable working across teams
What the job involves
- We are looking for a Site Reliability Engineer (SRE) to join our infrastructure team and help build reliable, scalable, and efficient systems
- As an SRE, you'll blend software engineering expertise with systems knowledge to improve uptime, enhance performance, and reduce operational toil
- Monitor and maintain the reliability and uptime of our systems and services through effective alerting, incident response, and resilient design patterns
- Write automation scripts and tools for deployments, infrastructure management, and operational tasks to reduce manual effort (toil)
- Contribute to observability improvements (metrics, logging, tracing) to enhance visibility into systems and applications
- Work with product and engineering teams to ensure systems are designed with scalability and resilience in mind
- Participate in post-incident reviews and implement action items to prevent recurrence
- Support and optimize infrastructure (e.g., Kubernetes, cloud platforms like GCP/AWS)
- Learn and apply SRE best practices, including SLOs, SLIs, and error budgets
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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