Staff Database Reliability Engineer

About Quizlet:
Inspired by our belief that anyone can learn anything and powered by our own curiosity, we build the smartest tools we can imagine to help students learn.  
Quizlet is the popular, global learning platform and app that millions of students, teachers and everyday people use to study any subject imaginable for school, work or as part of their personal interests -- including two-thirds of high school students and half of all college students in the US. Combining cognitive science and machine learning, Quizlet guides students through adaptive study activities to confidently reach their learning goals. We’re on track to become the undisputed leader in user-generated learning content and engagement, at the scale of YouTube.  
Valued at $1 billion, Quizlet has raised over $60 million in venture capital from investors including Icon Ventures, Union Square Ventures, General Atlantic, Costanoa Ventures, Owl Ventures, and Altos Ventures.  
To serve our global community of learners, our teams tackle lofty technical challenges and design for use cases across cultures and languages. We work hard, act like owners, and collaborate every chance we get. We’re energized by the potential to power more learners through multiple approaches and various tools.

About the Team:
The Data Engineering team is growing fast. Apart from traditional Data Eng responsibilities for OLAP functions, we also own the OLTP and streaming databases that power Quizlet’s learning platform.  This team has been involved in projects including building database load test framework, MemoryStore migration, and ProxySQL Kubernetes implementation.
About the Role:
Reliable data stores are the bed rocks of running large-scale services at Quizlet.  This team works with product engineering to transition from a primary and replica cluster setup to technologies that scale better; raise database reliability awareness, and advise on datastore selection for new projects.  A Database Reliability Engineer has the opportunity to make an enormous impact on our next phase of growth.  
We are authorized to hire in: AZ, CA, CO, FL, GA, HI, MA, MI, MT, NJ, NY, NC, OR, PA, SC, TX, and WA. Please only apply if you currently reside in one of those states or are willing to relocate.

In this role, you will:

• Monitor and support Cloud SQL MySQL, Spanner, ElasticSearch, Memcached, and Redis clusters
• Perform daily maintenance, monitoring, problem resolution and internal customer/development support
• Develop, implement and maintain automation tools to manage and monitor diverse database technologies we have
• Do capacity planning and load testing on various databases
• Perform database & Application (SQL) performance tuning and database upgrades
• Be on-call for production databases on a rotation basis
• Implement automation for DDL migrations
• Perform root cause analysis of production-related database issues
• Monitor and support MySQL, BigQuery, Cloud Spanner, and Memcache instances
• Make sure backups are recoverable at all times
• Troubleshooting and identifying Database performance issues quickly
• Support the product teams with their persistent storage needs
• Apply your engineering skills and best practices on databases
• Create and update database documentation as required

What you bring to the table:

• 2-3 years of experience maintaining at least one of the database technologies cited above
• 2-3 years of experience with a cloud service platform
• Experience installing and setting up databases as well as monitoring and diagnostics
• Knowledge of database replication, backup, and restore
• Experience with running large databases with high throughput and low latency
• Experience with on-call and incident management
• Good software development skills in Python, Go, or similar languages for scripting and automation
• Experience performing schema changes in production
• Proven ability to thrive in an environment that prioritizes giving and receiving candid feedback
• Passion for learning and technology

Bonus points if you have:

• Knowledge of infrastructure tools like Terraform, Consul and Argo
• Some experience working with Google Kubernetes Engine (GKE)

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, includin