Sr. Platform Engineer

September 5

🔄 Hybrid – Manhattan

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Quizlet

Helping students (and their teachers) practice and master whatever they are learning.

Education Technology and Consumer Learning

201 - 500

💰 $30M Series C on 2020-05

Description

•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

Requirements

•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

Benefits

•Quizlet is an equal opportunity employer. We celebrate diversity and are committed to creating an inclusive environment for all employees. •Total compensation for this role is market competitive, including a starting base salary of $130,000 - $185,000, depending on location and experience, as well as company stock options •Collaborate with your manager and team to create a healthy work-life balance •20 vacation days (and we expect you to take them!) •Competitive health, dental, and vision insurance (100% employee and 75% dependent PPO, HMO, VSP Choice) •Employer-sponsored 401k plan with company match •Access to LinkedIn Learning and other resources to support professional growth •Paid Family Leave, FSA, HSA, Commuter benefits, Wellness benefits •40 hours of annual paid time off to participate in volunteer programs of choice

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