Software Engineer - Infrastructure

Summary

Join Quora's Core Infrastructure team as a backend engineer and contribute to the reliability, scalability, and efficiency of our large-scale distributed systems. You will own and maintain databases and services, continuously improve infrastructure systems, write and review code, develop documentation and capacity plans, and debug production issues. This role requires strong problem-solving and communication skills, proficiency in a programming language, and experience with large-scale distributed systems. The position is remote-first and can be performed from anywhere in South Korea. Quora offers a wide range of benefits, including medical/dental/vision coverage, equity refreshers, remote work reimbursement, and paid time off.

Requirements

• Members of our Infrastructure Engineering team are not required to work the full “ coordination hours
• But should anticipate that they will need 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 in 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 with proficiency in any programming language (e.g. Python, C++, etc)
• Strong problem solving and communication skills
• Ability to debug production issues independently

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

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

Benefits

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