Software Engineer - Infrastructure, Quora (Remote)

Position Overview

• Location Type: Remote
• Job Type: Full-Time
• Salary: Not Specified

Quora is a privately held, "remote-first" company. This position can be performed remotely from anywhere in South Korea. Please visit careers.quora.com/eligible-countries for details regarding employment eligibility by country.

About Quora: 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, 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-4, Claude 3, Gemini Pro, DALL-E 3 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 primarily be working on our Quora product.

About the Team and Role: Our small engineering team works on challenging problems every day. We have a culture that's rooted in constantly learning and improving, and our engineers are encouraged to think big and experiment with new ideas. We iterate quickly by using continuous deployment, which means that every commit goes live on our production servers within minutes, no matter what time it is. Our engineers focus on creating polished products and writing high-quality code by designing APIs and abstractions that are extensible and maintainable. Everyone on the engineering team has a huge impact on our product and our company.

Core Infrastructure engineers build, maintain, and operate large-scale distributed systems to support Quora up and running and are responsible for reliability, scalability, and efficiency of various services. We use open-source storage systems such as MySQL, MyRocks, HBase, Redis, Memcache, and ElasticSearch to power large-scale online access to Quora. In addition, we also build various in-house services to deal with scalability challenges with high efficiency, such as email/notification service, asynchronous job queue, and long polling connections. In this role, you will be a part of a small team solving technically challenging problems that has a huge impact on Quora’s mission of sharing and growing the world’s knowledge.

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 the efficiency of all teams at Quora.
• Share on-call rotation.

Minimum Qualifications

• 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.

Preferred Qualifications

• Familiarity with AWS services (e.g. EC2, S3) or other public cloud services.
• Operational experience in databases.