Software Engineer New Grad 2025-2026 - Data Infrastructure, Quora (Remote)
[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.]
Quora’s mission is to grow the world's collective intelligence. To do so, we have two platforms:
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.
Our small data infrastructure team owns everything data—the data lake, pipelines, query engines, A/B testing infrastructure, dashboards, and visualization tools. We run on open source technologies like Kafka, Iceberg, Trino, Spark, and Airflow, alongside a few systems we've built in-house, our main programming language is Python.
No previous data infrastructure experience required for this role. You'll go through a mentorship program and hands-on technical training, working on meaningful projects across our stack from day one.
We're looking for someone curious about large-scale infra and excited by the chance to improve the reliability of critical services, to drive significant cost and performance wins and to boost productivity improving dev tools used across the company.
🌟 Discover Our Team's Exciting Projects! 🌟
Join us on a journey through some of our standout achievements that showcase innovation and collaboration at Quora:
🚀 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, our main engine for data processing, 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!
Get inspired by the impact we're making, and imagine the possibilities for your own journey with us!
We are accepting applications on an ongoing basis.
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.
There are many factors that will determine the starting pay, including but not limited to experience, location, education, and business needs.
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.
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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