Senior Software Engineer - Data Infrastructure, Quora (Remote)

Quora

90d • $155,656 - $225,160

About The Position

Quora is a privately held, 'remote-first' company. This position can be performed remotely from multiple countries around the world. Quora’s mission is to grow and share the world’s knowledge. To do so, we have two knowledge sharing products: Quora, a global knowledge sharing platform with over 400M monthly unique visitors, and Poe, a platform providing millions of global users with one place to chat, explore and build with a wide variety of AI language models. Behind these products are passionate, collaborative, and high-performing global teams. We have a culture rooted in transparency, idea-sharing, and experimentation that allows us to celebrate success and grow together through meaningful work. This role will be working on our Quora product.

Requirements

• Availability for meetings and impromptu communication during Quora's 'coordination hours' (Mon-Fri: 9am-3pm Pacific Time)
• Must have 4+ years of experience working in Data Infrastructure
• Flexibility for working and owning different Data Engineering systems. Open to working on the areas with highest priority for the company at a given time
• Operational mindset with ability to do Problem diagnosis, Root cause analysis, Performance tuning and Incident Management
• Proficiency in Python and SQL query design
• Proficiency with big data processing frameworks, like: Hive, Spark and Trino
• Experience building data-intensive applications (high velocity/high volume)
• Experience with SQL/NoSQL data store & data lake operations

Nice To Haves

• Hands-on experience with AWS technologies like S3, EC2, RDS, EKS, or in Apache Iceberg
• Flexible and positive team player with good interpersonal skills

Responsibilities

• Design and implement scalable and efficient data architectures, meeting data needs from data scientists, engineers and business partners
• Identify and implement improvements to system’s cost efficiency, reducing data storage and processing costs
• Bring your expertise to help model structured & unstructured data. Own these data models at a high level & be a data consultant for partner teams
• Champion best practices on system usages and hold high-quality code standards
• Participate in the team’s oncall rotation, helping solve timely reliability incidents

Benefits

• Medical/dental/vision coverage
• Equity refreshers
• Remote work reimbursement
• Paid time off
• Employee assistance programs

What This Job Offers

• Job Type: Full-time
• Career Level: Mid Level
• Number of Employees: 251-500 employees