Quora

Quora is the place to share knowledge and better understand the world.

Senior Software Engineer, Data Infrastructure

Full-stack EngineerSoftware EngineerFull TimeRemoteTeam 201-500Since 2009H1B SponsorCompany SiteLinkedIn

Location

United States

Posted

169 days ago

Salary

$155.7K - $225.2K / year

4 yrs expEnglishApacheAWSEC2No SQLPythonSparkSQL

Job Description

• Design and implement scalable and efficient data architectures, meeting data needs from data scientists, engineers and business partners • Identify and implement improvements to system’s cost efficiency, reducing data storage and processing costs • Model structured & unstructured data and own data models at a high level; act as a data consultant for partner teams • Champion best practices on system usages and hold high-quality code standards • Participate in the team’s oncall rotation, helping solve timely reliability incidents • Design and scale data lake, data pipelines, distributed query engines, experimentation framework, and dashboards • Improve system reliability, create/improve tooling, and promote correct use of data across the company • Optimize, enhance or re-design company’s data architecture/pipelines to support next generation data initiatives

Job Requirements

  • Availability for meetings and impromptu communication during Quora's “coordination hours" (Mon-Fri: 9am-3pm Pacific Time)
  • 4+ years of experience working in Data Infrastructure
  • Flexibility for working and owning different Data Engineering systems
  • Operational mindset with ability to do Problem diagnosis, Root cause analysis, Performance tuning and Incident Management
  • Proficiency in Python and SQL query design
  • Proficiency with big data processing frameworks, like: Hive, Spark and Trino
  • Experience building data-intensive applications (high velocity/high volume)
  • Experience with SQL/NoSQL data store & data lake operations
  • Participate in the team’s oncall rotation (availability for incidents)
  • Preferred: Hands-on experience with AWS technologies like S3, EC2, RDS, EKS, or in Apache Iceberg
  • Preferred: Flexible and positive team player with good interpersonal skills

Benefits

  • medical/dental/vision coverage
  • equity refreshers
  • remote work reimbursement
  • paid time off
  • employee assistance programs
  • benefits are country-specific and may vary
  • wide range of benefits (see https://www.careers.quora.com/benefits)

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