Staff Software Engineer Web Foundations
Staff Software Engineer Web Foundations
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15-03-2025
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About Quizlet:
Quizlet is the popular global learning platform and app that millions of students teachers and everyday people use to study any subject imaginable for school work or as part of their personal interests including twothirds of high school students and half of all college students in the US. Combining cognitive science and machine learning Quizlet guides students through adaptive study activities to confidently reach their learning goals.
Valued at $1 billion Quizlet has raised over $60 million in venture capital from investors including Icon Ventures Union Square Ventures General Atlantic Costanoa Ventures Owl Ventures and Altos Ventures.
To serve our global community of learners our teams tackle lofty technical challenges and design for use cases across cultures and languages. We work hard act like owners and collaborate every chance we get. Were energized by the potential to power more learners through multiple approaches and various tools.
About the Team:
The Web Foundations team provides the tools frameworks and services that enable Quizlets developers to deliver worldclass learning experiences to millions of users. We are a team of problemsolvers dedicated to improving developer productivity and maintaining high standards for quality across the organization.
About the Role:
This position is for a Staff Software Engineer who brings expertise in reliability performance scalability and software engineering best practices. You will leverage your experience to help solve some of our hardest problems model best practices and drive learning and improvement across engineering teams while contributing to broader software development initiatives. You will collaborate with product and platform teams to build robust scalable and highperforming systems that support our products and services.
Were happy to share that this is an onsite position. To help foster team collaboration we require that employees be in the office at a minimum of three days a week: Monday Wednesday and Thursday and as needed by your manager or the company. We believe that this working environment facilitates increased work efficiency team partnership and supports growth as an employee and organization.
In this role you will:
- Design build and maintain scalable and reliable software systems across various product and infrastructure domains
- Drive initiatives that improve system performance reliability efficiency and maintainability ensuring highquality user experiences
- Collaborate with crossfunctional teams including Product Engineering and Platform Infrastructure to develop robust architectural solutions
- Implement best practices for observability performance optimization and incident response
- Develop automation frameworks deployment processes and tooling to enhance engineering efficiency
- Contribute to largescale engineering efforts by providing technical guidance and mentorship
- Partner across Product teams to refine and improve servicelevel objectives (SLOs) and key performance indicators (KPIs) to monitor system health
- Advocate for best practices in system design testing and operational excellence
- Lead blameless postmortems and continuously improve incident management processes
What you bring to the table:
- 7 years of experience in software engineering with a track record of delivering reliable and scalable systems.
- Strong coding proficiency in modern programming languages (e.g. Go PHP Python JavaScript Java C# etc. and expertise in distributed systems.
- Experience designing and operating highavailability highscale systems.
- Familiarity with observability incident response and performance optimization techniques.
- Strong problemsolving skills with the ability to design and implement endtoend solutions.
- Leadership and mentorship abilities to influence engineering teams and drive technical initiatives.
- Excellent communication skills with the ability to explain technical concepts to diverse audiences.
Bonus points if you have:
- Experience implementing SRE principles in a general software engineering environment.
- Handson experience with Kubernetes Terraform ArgoCD GitHub Actions or similar tooling.
- Familiarity with cloud infrastructure (Google Cloud AWS etc. and modern DevOps practices.
- Background working in PHP and Go languages specifically.
- Experience in largescale distributed systems and eventdriven architectures.
- Passion for fostering a culture of reliability and continuous improvement.
Compensation Benefits & Perks:
- Quizlet is an equal opportunity employer. We celebrate diversity and are committed to creating an inclusive environment for all employees. Salary transparency helps to mitigate unfair hiring practices when it comes to discrimination and pay gaps. Total compensation for this role is market competitive including a starting base salary of $185000 $225000 depending on location and experience as well as company stock options
- Collaborate with your manager and team to create a healthy worklife 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)
- Employersponsored 401k 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
We strive to make everyone feel comfortable and welcome!
We work to create a holistic interview process where both Quizlet and candidates have an opportunity to view what it would be like to work together in exploring a mutually beneficial partnership.
We provide a transparent setting that gives a comprehensive view of who we are!
In Closing:
We have a bias for action take initiative and take pride in delivering results. We make informed decisions whenever possible but are unafraid to take calculated risks on great ideas to promote learning. We embrace challenges and see effort as the path to mastery. Were constantly seeking opportunities to learn and we embrace curiosity. Quality matters at Quizlet and we hold the bar high on everything we do.
We treat each other with honesty and respect encourage vigorous debate and seek critical feedback. We value diversity humility transparency and collaboration as the best paths to our success as individuals as a team and as a company.
Quizlets success as an online learning community depends on a strong commitment to diversity equity and inclusion. We are actively working to build a team that is representative of the diverse communities we serve and an open inclusive work environment where all employees can thrive. As an equal opportunity employer and a tech company committed to societal change we welcome applicants from all backgrounds. Women people of color members of the LGBTQ community individuals with disabilities and veterans are strongly encouraged to apply. Come join us!
To All Recruiters and Placement Agencies:
At this time Quizlet does not accept unsolicited agency resumes and/or profiles.
Please do not forward unsolicited agency resumes to our website or to any Quizlet employee. Quizlet will not pay fees to any thirdparty agency or firm nor will it be responsible for any agency fees associated with unsolicited resumes. All unsolicited resumes received will be considered the property of Quizlet.
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