# Sr Backend Engineer at Quizlet

- Company: Quizlet
- What the company does: Backed by USV.
- Company website: https://quizlet.com
- Type: Startups
- Level: Senior
- Location: San Francisco, CA
- Work setup: Remote
- Pay: $167K to $219K base salary per year (USD)
- Posted: 2026-07-17
- Apply by: 2026-10-08
- Apply: https://jobs.ashbyhq.com/quizlet-inc/6b802b88-42b1-4857-9d61-5c96c63022f0
- Page: https://www.1752.vc/careers/jobs/quizlet-sr-backend-engineer/

## About the role

To support collaboration, we ask employees to be in the office at least two days a week: Wednesday and Thursday. Design, build, and maintain data pipelines that ingest, transform, and load content into Elasticsearch indices at scale.

## What they're looking for

- Minimum 4+ years of experience in backend or data engineering, with hands-on ownership of production data pipelines and/or backend services
- Strong SQL and experience with data warehouses (Snowflake, BigQuery, Redshift, or similar)
- Proficiency in Python (or Java/Scala) for pipeline and service development, and experience with orchestration tools (Airflow, Dagster, Prefect, or similar)
- Experience with dbt for data transformation, modeling, and testing within the warehouse
- Hands-on experience with Elasticsearch or OpenSearch in production — index design, mappings, ILM, sharding, and cluster tuning
- Experience designing and operating backend services/APIs (REST or gRPC) — request handling, caching, and performance optimization for low-latency, read-heavy systems

Tags: Engineering