Senior Software Engineer, Data Infrastructure

Quora

full-time

Posted on: 9/26/2025

Origin: • 🇺🇸 United States

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💰 $155,656 - $225,160 per year

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About the role

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

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