About Quizlet:
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
As a Staff Site Reliability Engineer, you’ll lead reliability engineering across Quizlet’s platform — designing automation, scaling systems, and ensuring that our infrastructure can support rapid innovation in AI-powered learning. You’ll drive the architectural direction for resilience, observability, and performance while mentoring other engineers and influencing platform-wide standards.
This is an onsite position in our San Francisco office, with a minimum of three days per week onsite: Monday, Wednesday, and Thursday.
In this role, you will
Lead the design and implementation of self-healing, auto-scaling infrastructure across our Kubernetes and Istio environments.Architect and implement CI/CD reliability improvements that reduce MTTR and deployment risk.Partner with teams to define and enforce SLOs and operational excellence standards.Build systems and tools that enable proactive reliability and capacity management.Drive incident analysis and postmortems using Datadog and Jeli to identify architectural improvements.Mentor engineers and establish best practices for automation, observability, and scaling.
What you bring to the table
8+ years of experience in SRE, systems, or infrastructure engineering.Expertise in Kubernetes (GKE), Terraform, and CI/CD pipelines (ArgoCD, GitHub Actions, CircleCI).Deep programming skills in Go and/or Python for infrastructure automation.Strong experience in Datadog, system monitoring, and distributed tracing.Familiarity with GCP services, Linux internals, and large-scale networking.Proven experience leading cross-team reliability initiatives and architectural improvements.
Compensation, Benefits & Perks
Quizlet is an equal opportunity employer. We celebrate diversity and are committed to creating an inclusive environment for all employees. Salary transparency helps to mitigate unfair hiring practices when it comes to discrimination and pay gaps.Total compensation for this role is market competitive, including a starting base salary of $220,700 – $268,100, depending on location and experience, as well as company stock options.Collaborate with your manager and team to create a healthy work-life balance20 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 401(k) plan with company matchAccess to LinkedIn Learning and other resources to support professional growthPaid Family Leave, FSA, HSA, Commuter benefits, and Wellness benefits40 hours of annual paid time off to participate in volunteer programs of choice
