Senior Software Engineer, Developer Experience

Quizlet • San Francisco, CA

2d • $165,000 - $225,000 • Onsite

About The Position

At Quizlet, our mission is to help every learner achieve their outcomes in the most effective and delightful way. Our $1B+ learning platform serves tens of millions of students every month, including two-thirds of U.S. high schoolers and half of U.S. college students, powering over 2 billion learning interactions monthly. 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. Let's Build the Future of Learning Join us to design and deliver AI-powered learning tools that scale across the world and unlock human potential. About the Role: We are looking for a Senior Software Engineer to join our Developer Experience team and build the tools, systems, and workflows that make our engineering organization more productive. You'll focus on release engineering, CI/CD pipelines, testing infrastructure, AI tooling, and metrics-driven improvements that help developers ship faster and more reliably. We're happy to share that this is an onsite position in our San Francisco office. To help foster team collaboration, we require that employees be in the office a minimum of three days per 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.

Requirements

• 5+ years of professional software engineering experience, with significant time spent on developer tooling, CI/CD, testing infrastructure, or release engineering
• Previous experience as a product engineer building features and shipping code to production
• Strong programming skills in languages such as Python, Go, TypeScript, or PHP
• Deep experience with CI/CD systems (e.g., GitHub Actions, CircleCI) and automated testing frameworks
• Hands-on experience with release engineering, deployment strategies (blue/green, canary, feature flags), and rollback procedures
• Comfortable with data analysis and metrics—you know how to measure developer productivity and use data to drive improvements
• Familiarity with infrastructure-as-code (Terraform) and configuration management tools
• Strong systems thinking with the ability to identify bottlenecks and design scalable solutions
• Excellent communication skills; able to understand developer needs and advocate for productivity improvements

Responsibilities

• Develop internal tools and platforms that reduce friction in the development workflow—from local development to production deployment
• Design and build CI/CD pipelines and release automation systems that enable safe, fast deployments across our engineering organization
• Create and maintain testing infrastructure, including frameworks, tooling, and environments that improve test coverage and developer confidence
• Establish metrics and observability for developer experience, measuring build times, deployment frequency, test reliability, and other key indicators
• Partner with product engineering teams to understand pain points and design solutions that scale across the organization
• Lead technical initiatives to improve code quality, test automation, and release processes
• Mentor engineers on testing best practices, CI/CD patterns, and developer productivity techniques

Benefits

• Total compensation for this role is market competitive, including a starting base salary of $165,000 - $225,000, depending on location and experience, as well as company stock options
• Collaborate with your manager and team to create a healthy work-life balance
• 20 vacation days that we expect you to take!
• Competitive health, dental, and vision insurance (100% employee and 75% dependent PPO, Dental, VSP Choice)
• Employer-sponsored 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

What This Job Offers

• Job Type: Full-time
• Career Level: Mid Level
• Education Level: No Education Listed
• Number of Employees: 251-500 employees