Requirements:

Members of our Infrastructure Engineering team are not required to work the full “coordination hours”, but should anticipate being available Mon-Fri from 3pm-9pm PST at a 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 (e.g., MySQL, MyRocks, HBase, Memcached, Redis, etc.), traffic handling (e.g., DNS, CDN, load balancing, etc.), or infrastructure orchestration (Ansible, Terraform, Docker, Kubernetes, etc.)
Excellent coding skills in any programming language (e.g., Python, C++, etc.)
Strong problem-solving and communication skills
Ability to debug production issues independently

Preferred Qualifications:

Familiarity with AWS services (e.g., EC2, S3) or other public cloud services
Operational experience in database systems (e.g., MySQL, Memcache, Redis, and NoSQL systems)
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

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