[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.]
About Quora:Quora’s mission is to grow the world's collective intelligence. To do so, we have two platforms:
Quora: a global knowledge sharing platform with over 300M monthly unique visitors, bringing people together to share insights on various topics and providing a unique platform to learn and connect with others.
Poe: a platform providing millions of global users with one place to chat, explore and build with a wide variety of AI language models (bots), including GPT-5, Claude Sonnet 4.5, Grok 4, Veo 3.1, Gemini 2.5 Flash Image (Nano Banana), and more. As AI capabilities rapidly advance, Poe provides a single platform to instantly integrate and utilize these new models.
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.
This role will be working on our Quora product.
About the Team and Role:Since we first launched our advertising platform, we've already grown to support thousands of advertisers who are reaching over 300 million monthly unique visitors on Quora. Today, we're working on a broad range of areas to support our data-intensive needs: metrics and insights reporting, audience targeting, low-latency real-time ad delivery, and a suite of advertiser tools to create and optimize campaigns, to name just a few.
As an engineer on the Ads product team, you'll work on efforts focused on generating revenue for the success of the company and mission. As part of a highly cross-functional development team, you'll work closely with machine learning engineers, data scientists, product managers, designers, build data-intensive applications and systems to enable advertisers to reach a well-targeted audience, and ensure that our users experience ads comparable to the quality of the content they appear alongside.
Responsibilities:Drive projects from ideation to production using the full technology stack
Architect, design, and implement features for our mission-critical online ad platform at massive scale with data-driven iteration
Identify high impact features that achieve engineering and revenue goals, and be able to explain rationale for your decisions
Work with designers, fellow engineers, and data scientists to prototype and implement functionality and analyze impact
Availability for meetings and impromptu communication during Quora's “coordination hours" (Mon-Fri: 9am-3pm Pacific Time)
5+ years of full-time product development experience building consumer or enterprise web products (internships excluded)
2+ years of industry experience in online advertising or related area
Excellent proficiency with Python or similar programming language
Knowledge of backend storage systems such as MySQL, HBase, Memcached, or Redis
Knowledge of frontend technologies such as React, Javascript, Typescript
Experience with large-scale distributed systems
1+ years of frontend experience with frontend technologies, such as React, Javascript, Typescript
Love of the Quora products
At Quora, we value diversity and inclusivity and welcome individuals from all backgrounds, including marginalized or underrepresented groups in tech, to apply for our job openings. We encourage all candidates who share a passion for growing the world’s knowledge, even those who may not strictly meet all the preferred requirements, to apply, as we know that a diverse range of perspectives can have a significant impact on our products and our culture.
Additional Information:We are accepting applications on an ongoing basis. This role is a backfill for an existing vacancy.
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. For more information on benefits, visit this link: https://www.careers.quora.com/benefits
There are many factors that will determine the starting pay, including but not limited to experience, location, education, and business needs.
US candidates only: For US based applicants, the salary range is $179,004 - $312,588 USD + equity + benefits.
Canada candidates only: For Toronto and Vancouver based applicants, the salary range is $234,753 - $327,951 CAD + equity + benefits. For all other locations in Canada, the salary range is $219,103 - $306,088 CAD + equity + benefits.
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.
Please note: 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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