Director Of Platform Engineering

Director of Platform Engineering

At Quizlet, our mission is to help every learner achieve their outcomes in the most effective and delightful way. Our $1B+ learning platform serves tens of millions of students every month, including two-thirds of U.S. high schoolers and half of U.S. college students, powering over 2 billion learning interactions monthly. We blend cognitive science with machine learning to personalize and enhance the learning experience for students, professionals, and lifelong learners alike. We're energized by the potential to power more learners through multiple approaches and various tools.

Join us to design and deliver AI-powered learning tools that scale across the world and unlock human potential.

We're hiring a Director of Platform Engineering to lead Quizlet's core infrastructural foundations, including Site Reliability Engineering, Cloud Infrastructure, Tooling and DevOps. This team is the bedrock for engineering excellence at Quizlet and will play a critical role in shaping how our developers build and ship the future of learning—faster, safer, and smarter. This is an onsite position in our San Francisco office. To help foster team collaboration, we require that employees be in the office a minimum of three days per week: Monday, Wednesday, and Thursday and as needed by your manager or the company. We believe that this working environment facilitates increased work efficiency, team partnership, and supports growth as an employee and organization.

In This Role, You Will:

• Set the vision for developer productivity and platform reliability for a large and very successful consumer product
• Lead a small, senior team of DevOps, SRE, Tooling, and Platform engineers driving operational excellence across the engineering org. The goal is to improve DORA metrics or equivalent metrics you help define to raise production and engineering excellence and developer productivity
• Modernize our cloud infrastructure and CI/CD systems, ensuring scalability, reliability, and developer velocity
• Drive adoption of service-oriented architecture best practices, including observability, ownership models, and adherence to SLOs
• Define and drive our internal developer experience strategy, including AI-powered tooling and frameworks that supercharge productivity
• Oversee SRE, incident management and bug practices, ensuring high availability and performance across Quizlet products
• Drive infrastructure cost efficiency and cloud optimization in partnership with Finance
• Partner cross-functionally with the AI/ML, Data, and Consumer Product teams to enable experimentation and reliable scaling

What You Bring To The Table:

• Proven leadership in platform engineering, infrastructure, and DevEx, ideally in a growth-stage or scaled tech environment
• Experience running or building teams across SRE, Developer Tooling, DevOps, or DataOps disciplines
• Passion for developer productivity and a strong systems-thinking and app builder mindset. Your teams will work closely and alongside app and ML engineers
• Experience driving org-wide initiatives in automation, observability, or platform modernization
• Comfortable with ambiguity and excited to build in a fast-moving, high-impact environment
• Experience with one or more of: Google Cloud Platform, Kubernetes, sharded MySQL, Spanner

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, including a starting base salary of $220,000 - $300,000, depending on location and experience, as well as company stock options
• Collaborate with your manager and team to create a healthy work-life balance
• 20 vacation days that we expect you to take!
• Competitive health, dental, and vision insurance (100% employee and 75% dependent PPO, Dental, VSP Choice)
• Employer-sponsored 401k plan with company match
• Access to LinkedIn Learning and other resources to support professional growth
• Paid Family Leave, FSA, HSA, Commuter benefits, and Wellness benefits
• 40 hours of annual paid time off to participate in volunteer programs of choice

Massive reach: 60M+ users, 1B+ interactions per week

Cutting-edge tech: Generative AI, adaptive learning, cognitive science

Strong momentum: Top-tier investors, sustainable business, real traction

Mission-first: Work that makes a difference in people's lives

Inclusive culture: Committed to equity, diversity, and belonging

We strive to make everyone feel comfortable and welcome!

We work to create a holistic interview process, where both Quizlet and candidates have an opportunity to view what it would be like to work together, in exploring a mutually beneficial partnership.

We provide a transparent setting that gives a comprehensive view of who we are!

At Quizlet, we're excited about passionate people joining our team—even if you don't check every box on the requirements list. We value unique perspectives and believe everyone has something meaningful to contribute. Our culture is all about taking initiative, learning through challenges, and striving for high-quality work while staying curious and open to new ideas. We believe in honest, respectful communication, thoughtful collaboration, and creating a supportive space where everyone can grow and succeed together.

Quizlet's success as an online learning community depends on a strong commitment to diversity, equity, and inclusion.

As an equal opportunity employer and a tech company committed to societal change, we welcome applicants from all backgrounds. Women, people of color, members of the LGBTQ+ community, individuals with disabilities, and veterans are strongly encouraged to apply. Come join us!