Software Engineer - Infrastructure, Quora (Remote)

Requirements:

• Members of the Infrastructure Engineering team are expected to be available Mon-Fri from 3pm-9pm PST at minimum
• B.S. or M.S. in Computer Science, Engineering, or a related technical field
• 3+ years of experience working on large-scale distributed systems
• Familiarity with data storage, traffic handling, or infrastructure orchestration
• Excellent coding skills in any programming language
• Strong problem-solving and communication skills
• Ability to debug production issues independently

Preferred Qualifications:

• Familiarity with AWS services or other public cloud services
• Operational experience in database systems like MySQL, Memcache, Redis, and NoSQL
• Operational experience with Linux operating system internals, filesystems, disk/storage technologies, and networking
• Experience with scripting languages (e.g., shell script)
• Experience with capacity planning for web scale systems
• Passion for Quora's mission and goals

Responsibilities:

• Own backend databases and services (e.g., MySQL, HBase, Memcached, Redis, Nginx, etc)
• Continuously improve scalability, reliability, and efficiency of infrastructure systems
• Write and review code, plan and execute upgrades, develop documentation, and capacity plans, and debug production issues
• Build monitoring tools and automation to increase efficiency of all teams at Quora
• Share on-call rotation

Perks and Benefits:

• Medical/dental/vision coverage
• Equity refreshers
• Remote work reimbursement
• Paid time off
• Employee assistance programs
• And more. Benefits are country-specific and may vary.