Software Engineer New Grad 2025-2026 - Data Infrastructure, Quora (Remote)
About The Position
Quora’s mission is to grow the world's collective intelligence. To do so, we have two platforms: Quora: a global knowledge sharing platform with over 300M monthly unique visitors, bringing people together to share insights on various topics and providing a unique platform to learn and connect with others. Poe: a platform providing millions of global users with one place to chat, explore and build with a wide variety of AI language models (bots), including GPT-5.2, Claude Opus 4.5, Grok 4.1, Veo 3.1, Nano Banana Pro (Gemini 3 Pro Image), and more. As AI capabilities rapidly advance, Poe provides a single platform to instantly integrate and utilize these new 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. Join us on this journey to create a positive impact and make a significant change in the world. This role will be working on our Quora product. Our small data infrastructure team owns everything data—the data lake, pipelines, query engines, A/B testing infrastructure, dashboards, and visualization tools. We run on open source technologies like Kafka, Iceberg, Trino, Spark, and Airflow, alongside a few systems we've built in-house, our main programming language is Python. No previous data infrastructure experience required for this role. You'll go through a mentorship program and hands-on technical training, working on meaningful projects across our stack from day one. We're looking for someone curious about large-scale infra and excited by the chance to improve the reliability of critical services, to drive significant cost and performance wins and to boost productivity improving dev tools used across the company.
Requirements
- Availability for meetings and impromptu communication during Quora's “coordination hours" (Mon-Fri: 9am-3pm Pacific Time)
- A 2025 or 2026 graduate with or pursuing a B.S., M.S., or Ph.D. in Computer Science, Engineering or a related technical field
- Interest in scalability challenges and infrastructure technologies
- A passion for learning, always improving yourself and the team around you
Nice To Haves
- Previous software engineering experience via an internship, work experience, or coding competition
- Passion for Quora's mission and goals
- Knowledge of Python and SQL
Responsibilities
- Help implement scalable and efficient data architectures, meeting data needs from data scientists, engineers and business partners
- Actively participate in the team’s planning process, discussing team’s priorities and proposing project ideas as you grow your knowledge and ownership in data-infra systems
- Identify and implement improvements to system’s cost efficiency, reducing data storage and processing costs
- 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
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What This Job Offers
Job Type
Full-time
Career Level
Entry Level
