Staff Software Developer, Coursera
Data Platform, Back End
Online learning platform
Open for applications
Online learning platform
1001+ employees
Open for applications
1001+ employees
Company mission
To provide life-transforming learning experiences to learners around the world.
Role
Who you are
- 7+ years of experience working in a relevant backend software engineering role, with 3+ years focused on data infrastructure or data systems
- Experience with implementing APIs and writing automated tests, and proficiency in at least one backend programming language (e.g., Java, Python)
- Demonstrated history working with cloud data services (e.g., AWS, GCP), streaming technologies, and handling large data sets
- Proven experience in defining technical roadmaps for a data system or a software system
- Fervent belief in engineering quality and building technical leverage for others
- Comfortable working in a fast-moving team environment (we deploy many times a day!)
- Data-driven and strongly motivated by success and learnings through experiments and metrics analysis
- Experience working with data systems or data lakes. Experience working with eventing services. Experience collaborating with data science and data engineering functions
Desirable
- Demonstrated ability to work in a fast-paced and dynamic environment, and navigate through ambiguity and uncertainty with confidence
- Experience collaborating with cross-functional teams to deliver high-quality products or services
- Proven track record of delivering results in a resource-constrained environment with limited guidance and supervision
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What the job involves
- As a Staff Software Developer on the Data Platform team, you will join the team’s mission to empower data workers at Coursera and maximize their productivity by providing robust tools, innovative platforms, and a steadfast analytics infrastructure
- The team owns a wide range of data-empowering systems, including eventing services, experimentation systems, and offline data lake systems
- This is an exciting time to join the team as we are actively developing our new data lake systems, unifying our data development tool stack, and enhancing our eventing as well as experimentation platforms to enable the company’s data driven culture
- You will be a technical leader, scaling and developing our data infrastructure as well as tools that pave the path for data development in our offline data systems
- You will tackle complex technical challenges at scale that power millions of learners and drive substantial technical impact across multiple teams within the organization
- You will have the opportunity to influence the future roadmap, growth, and success of Coursera's data-driven culture. You will collaborate closely with data engineers, data scientists, machine learning, and product engineers
- Design and implement scalable & robust Data Platforms, APIs, and Systems
- Proactively identify and implement high-leverage opportunities to improve system architecture, scalability, and performance
- Develop and deploy your high-quality code (in Java, Scala, Python, or similar languages) following industry best practices and track key service level indicators (SLIs)
- Debug and fix production issues, lead blameless retrospectives, and participate in the on-call rotation to ensure adherence to the service level agreements (SLAs)
- Collaborate and mentor team members, foster a collaborative and inclusive environment, and proactively pinpoint and advance engineering improvements and practices
- Own large feature areas, identify gaps in system ownership, and drive initiatives to simplify and consolidate system components
Our take
Coursera was founded by Daphne Koller and Andrew Ng in 2012 with a vision of providing life-transforming learning experiences to learners around the world. It partners with universities and other educational institutions to deliver online courses to 40 million students, covering subjects like technology, business, science, and even autonomous cars.
Coursera sees itself as helping people get ready for the next wave of technological advancement. It is preparing individuals, companies, and governments to meet that challenge head-on and turn this disruption into opportunity. To help achieve this, it also has specific product offerings for the corporate market, as well as for governments and nonprofits.
The model of online courses that anyone can attend is very scalable, making Coursera appealing to investors, especially when the online education market is expected to be worth $20bn+ by 2023. Further, it received B Corp certification in February 2021, propelling its efforts to reduce barriers to high quality education.
Steph
Company Specialist at Welcome to the Jungle
Insights
30% employee growth in 12 months
Company
Funding (last 2 of 9 rounds)
Jul 2020
$130m
SERIES F
Apr 2019
$103m
SERIES E
Total funding: $443.1m
Company benefits
- Coursera covers the cost of tuition so you can earn a free master’s degree and develop new skills. That’s on top of free, lifelong access to courses and certificates on the platform
- We offer medical, dental, and vision insurance for you and your dependents. Plus, free access to counseling and mental health services
- Get up to 16 weeks of fully-paid parental leave when you grow your family and bring a new child into your life
- We host Make-a-thon events twice a year to promote community and innovation. During Make-a-thon, you’ll dedicate time to attend workshops, work on passion projects, and pursue ideas outside of your day-to-day work
- Take paid time off when you need it. We have time off policies that promote flexibility so you can tailor your work schedule when life calls
- Our flexibility extends to where you work. You can choose to work from home, work from one of our offices, or try a combination of the two
- Employees earn company stock, so you can own what we build together and share in our success
Company HQ
Mountain View, CA
Leadership
Andrew Ng
(Chairman)CEO of Landing AI (helping companies adopt AI). Also a Professor of Computer Science at Stanford.
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