Senior Site Reliability Engineer – Platform
QuizletSan Francisco, California, United States
Posted November 15, 2025
192500 - 231600 USD year
Full Time
About the Company
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.
Job Description
At Quizlet, our mission is to help every learner achieve their outcomes in the most effective and delightful way. We blend cognitive science with machine learning to personalize and enhance the learning experience for students, professionals, and lifelong learners alike. We’re energized by the potential to power more learners through multiple approaches and various tools.
Requirements
- 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.
Benefits
- 20 vacation days
- Competitive health, dental, and vision insurance
- Employer-sponsored 401(k) plan with company match
- Access to LinkedIn Learning and other resources to support professional growth
- Paid Family Leave, FSA, HSA, Commuter benefits, and Wellness benefits
- 40 hours of annual paid time off to participate in volunteer programs of choice