Desired Skills and Experience
- Own backend databases like MySQL and HBase, infrastructure components like Memcache and Redis, and everything in between
- Drive reliability, uptime and efficiency improvements to Quora’s core systems
- Write and review code, plan and execute upgrades, develop documentation and capacity plans, and debug production issues
- Share on-call rotation and be an escalation contact for service incidents
- Work cross-functionally with various engineering teams
- Build monitoring tools and automation to increase efficiency of all teams at Quora
- Drive postmortems and operations reviews for Quora’s core systems and services
- At least 3 years of experience working on large-scale distributed systems
- Strong operational experience in environments running MySQL, Memcache, Redis and NoSQL systems
- Strong operational experience with Linux operating system internals, filesystems, disk/storage technologies and networking
- Excellent coding skills (Python or Java or C++) and experience with scripting languages (Bash)
- Experience with AWS or other public cloud technologies
- Experience with capacity planning for web scale systems
- BS/MS in Computer Science (or equivalent)
- Love of the Quora product