Senior Software Engineer - Data Infrastructure, Quora (Remote)
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Quora is a privately held, "remote-first" company. This position can be performed remotely from multiple countries around the world. Please visit careers.quora.com/eligible-countries for details regarding employment eligibility by country.
About Quora
Quora’s mission is to grow the world’s collective intelligence. To do so, we have two platforms:
* Quora: a global knowledge sharing platform with over 300M 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-5, Claude Sonnet 4.5, Grok 4, Veo 3.1, Gemini 2.5 Flash Image (Nano Banana), and more.
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.
About The Team And Role
Our data infrastructure team is responsible for all things data — data lake, data pipelines, distributed query engines, experimentation framework, data dashboards, and visualization tools. Our data ecosystem is composed of open source technologies like Kafka, Hive, Trino, Spark and Airflow, along with a few in-house‑built systems. As a member of our team you would spend time designing and scaling our existing infrastructure, improving system reliability, working closely with other teams to improve or create new tooling for our infrastructure, and promoting the correct use of data at the company. We are looking for someone who will be excited by the prospect of optimizing, enhancing or even redesigning our company’s data architecture/pipelines to support our next generation data initiatives.
Discover Our Team's Exciting Projects!
* 🚀 Migrating a Decade of Redshift Usages to Trino at Quora: Dive into how we transformed our data ecosystem, enhancing efficiency and performance!
* ⚡ Revamping the Spark Ecosystem at Quora: Explore our efforts to elevate Spark, making it more powerful and user-friendly for our engineering teams!
* 🎥 Adopting Trino's Fault‑tolerant Execution Mode at Trino Summit 2023: Catch the highlights from our presentation at the Trino Summit, where we shared insights on building resilience in data processing!
Responsibilities
* Design and implement scalable and efficient data architectures, meeting data needs from data scientists, engineers and business partners.
* Identify and implement improvements to system cost efficiency, reducing data storage and processing costs.
* Bring your expertise to help model structured & unstructured data. Own these data models at a high level & be a data consultant for partner teams.
* Champion best practices on system usage and hold high‑quality code standards.
* Participate in the team’s on‑call rotation, helping solve timely reliability incidents.
Minimum Requirements
* Availability for meetings and impromptu communication during Quora’s “coordination hours” (Mon‑Fri: 9am‑3pm Pacific Time).
* Must have 4+ years of experience working in Data Infrastructure.
* Flexibility for working and owning different Data Engineering systems. Open to working on the areas with highest priority for the company at a given time.
* 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.
Preferred Requirements
* Hands‑on experience with AWS technologies like S3, EC2, RDS, EKS, or Apollo Iceberg.
* Flexible and positive team player with good interpersonal skills.
Benefits
Quora offers a wide range of benefits including medical/dental/vision coverage, equity refreshers, remote work reimbursement, paid time off, employee assistance programs, and more. Benefits are country‑specific and may vary. For more information on benefits, visit the benefits page.
There are many factors that will determine the starting pay, including but not limited to experience, location, education, and business needs.
* US candidates only: For US based applicants, the salary range is $155,656 - $225,160 USD + equity + benefits.
* Canada candidates only: For Toronto and Vancouver based applicants, the salary range is $201,613 - $233,311 CAD + equity + benefits. For all other locations in Canada, the salary range is $188,172 - $217,757 CAD + equity + benefits.
Equal Employment Opportunity
We are an equal opportunity employer and value diversity at our company. We do not discriminate on the basis of race, religion, color, national origin, gender, sexual orientation, age, marital status, veteran status, or disability status.
Please note: AI technology may assist in sorting applications and recording interview notes, but all decisions are made by a member of our team.
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