Job Description

Quizlet is seeking a Senior Staff Platform Engineer to lead the design, strategy, and evolution of their database and data infrastructure. This role involves architecting large-scale systems, ensuring reliability, performance, and scalability, and partnering with other engineering teams to set the technical direction for database systems.

Responsibilities

• Architect and evolve database ecosystem (Cloud Spanner, PlanetScale MySQL, BigQuery, Redis)
• Set technical direction for database reliability, observability, and disaster recovery
• Lead large-scale modernization initiatives
• Drive platform-wide resilience and automation
• Mentor engineers in database design and operational excellence
• Define SLOs and align platform strategy with product and AI initiatives
• Contribute to architecture reviews and infrastructure standards

Requirements

• 10+ years of backend/platform engineering experience, 5+ focused on databases
• Experience architecting high-throughput, low-latency database infrastructures
• Deep expertise in MySQL and PlanetScale
• Proficiency with Cloud Spanner, Postgres, or BigQuery
• Experience with Terraform, Kubernetes (GKE), and Python/Go
• Expertise in observability, monitoring, and incident management
• Strong collaboration and communication skills

Benefits

• No benefits