Job Description

Quizlet is seeking a Senior Platform Engineer to design and maintain their database infrastructure, ensuring performance, scalability, and resilience as the platform grows. The role involves optimizing query performance, automating operations, and guiding best practices for reliability and observability across the data stack.

Responsibilities

• Design, implement, and maintain large-scale database systems
• Improve system reliability and performance through automation
• Collaborate with product and infrastructure teams
• Build tooling and monitoring dashboards
• Contribute to platform standards for caching and indexing
• Participate in on-call rotations and drive post-incident improvements

Requirements

• 5+ years of experience in database engineering or platform infrastructure
• Hands-on experience managing MySQL, Cloud Spanner, or BigQuery
• Strong background in performance tuning and high-availability design
• Programming proficiency in Go or Python
• Familiarity with Kubernetes and Terraform
• Solid understanding of caching systems like Redis or Memcached
• Excellent problem-solving skills

Benefits

• No benefits