Staff Site Reliability Engineer - Platform

Quizlet • Full-time • Hybrid in San Francisco, California, United States • $220,700 - $268,100 / year • 2w ago

Fast Facts

Quizlet is seeking a Staff Site Reliability Engineer to lead automation and reliability across their platform, focusing on scaling systems and enhancing performance. This role involves mentoring engineers and driving architectural improvements in an onsite role in San Francisco.

Responsibilities: Design and implement self-healing infrastructure, improve CI/CD reliability, and mentor engineering teams while ensuring operational excellence standards are maintained.

Skills: Experience in SRE systems, Kubernetes, Terraform, CI/CD pipelines, and strong programming skills in Go or Python.

Qualifications: 8+ years in SRE or infrastructure engineering and proven leadership in reliability initiatives are preferred.

Location: San Francisco, CA

Compensation: $220700 - $268100 / Annually

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 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 401(k) 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

Why Join Quizlet?

🌎 Massive reach: 60M+ users, 1B+ interactions per week

🧠 Cutting-edge tech: Generative AI, adaptive learning, cognitive science

📈 Strong momentum: Top-tier investors, sustainable business, real traction

🎯 Mission-first: Work that makes a difference in people’s lives

🤝 Inclusive culture: Committed to equity, diversity, and belonging

We strive to make everyone feel comfortable and welcome!

We work to create a holistic interview process, where both Quizlet and candidates have an opportunity to view what it would be like to work together, in exploring a mutually beneficial partnership.

We provide a transparent setting that gives a comprehensive view of who we are!

In Closing:

At Quizlet, we’re excited about passionate people joining our team—even if you don’t check every box on the requirements list. We value unique perspectives and believe everyone has something meaningful to contribute. Our culture is all about taking initiative, learning through challenges, and striving for high-quality work while staying curious and open to new ideas. We believe in honest, respectful communication, thoughtful collaboration, and creating a supportive space where everyone can grow and succeed together.”

Quizlet’s success as an online learning community depends on a strong commitment to diversity, equity, and inclusion.

As an equal opportunity employer and a tech company committed to societal change, we welcome applicants from all backgrounds. Women, people of color, members of the LGBTQ+ community, individuals with disabilities, and veterans are strongly encouraged to apply. Come join us!

To All Recruiters and Placement Agencies:

At this time, Quizlet does not accept unsolicited agency resumes and/or profiles.

Please do not forward unsolicited agency resumes to our website or to any Quizlet employee. Quizlet will not pay fees to any third-party agency or firm nor will it be responsible for any agency fees associated with unsolicited resumes. All unsolicited resumes received will be considered the property of Quizlet.

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