Software Engineer, Khan Academy
Data Infrastructure
$107.7-134.6k
For Canadian applicants: $134,640 - $168,300 CAD
Nonprofit online education platform
Job no longer available
Nonprofit online education platform
1001+ employees
Job no longer available
$107.7-134.6k
For Canadian applicants: $134,640 - $168,300 CAD
1001+ employees
Company mission
Khan Academy's mission is to provide a free, world‑class education for anyone, anywhere.
Role
Who you are
- The ideal candidate will have a strong background in software development and DevOps, with a focus on data engineering
- 4+ years experience in a software engineer role with a focus on tool design, creation, and maintenance for infrastructure or data engineering
- Strong collaborative development experience including PR reviews and documentation writing
- Proficient in SQL
- Proficiency in writing and maintaining data pipelines and data quality monitors in a workflow management tool for productionized solutions, with source control and code review
- Proficiency in computer science and software engineering fundamentals, including the ability to program in Python and/or Go
- Proficient in Docker and Kubernetes
- Experience with Terraform
- Experience with BigQuery and data pipeline tools such as Airflow, & DBT would be a big plus as would familiarity with Streamlit for data visualization
- We welcome candidates with experience in any and all technologies. We don’t require experience in any particular language or tool. Our commitment to on-boarding and mentorship means you won’t be left in the dark as you learn new technologies
What the job involves
- We have some of the richest educational data in the world, and we want to leverage that data to develop a clearer picture of who our users are, how they are using the site, and how we could better serve them on their educational journey
- Your work will enable answering critical and meaningful questions like "how do students learn most effectively?" and "how can we improve our content and product?"
- You will be responsible for designing, developing, and maintaining scalable systems and applications
- Design and manage data pipelines and workflows using SQL, BigQuery, Airflow, and DBT
- Develop and maintain data visualization and analytical tools using Streamlit
- Design, develop, and maintain data infrastructure software using Python and Go (familiarity with GraphQL a plus)
- Implement and manage DevOps processes for Data Engineering tools
- Use Docker and Kubernetes to build and deploy containerized applications
- Utilize Terraform for infrastructure as code to manage and provision cloud resources
Our take
Khan Academy is a non-profit that provides free online education materials, including teacher tools, instruction videos, and practice exercises to support users of all ages. It has over 10 million users a month and covers subjects all the way up to college level.
With nearly a quarter of American adults unable to use mathematics in daily life, Khan Academy’s interactive quizzes, instructional videos, and teacher tools are timely. Khan Academy started life as a series of educational YouTube videos, before building a full-scale platform after receiving an influx of donations from Silicon Valley philanthropists. This background has led it to embrace rather than reject the educational possibilities of new tech such as AI, with the founder regarding traditional institutions' banning of tools like ChatGPT as a mistake.
The company offers its tools completely for free, instead of relying on donations and volunteers. A key focus is tackling wealth inequality in education. A partnership with the College Board (who produce entrance examinations for higher education) has made access to SAT prep materials free for millions. 2024 saw a partnership with Microsoft for Khan Academy's Khanmigo product, now free to use for Microsoft customers.
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Insights
23% employee growth in 12 months
Company
Funding (last 2 of 5 rounds)
Jul 2020
$3m
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Oct 2017
$3m
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Total funding: $16.2m
Company benefits
- Flexible spending account (FSA)
- Dental insurance
- Optical insurance
- Life insurance
- Performance bonus
- 401K plan
- Family medical leave
- Diversity program
- Pet friendly workplace
- Work from home opportunities
- Health insurance
- Affinity groups where Parents, Black, Hispanic/Latino, Women and Gender Minorities, and LGBTQIA+ identified folks come together
Company HQ
Mountain View, CA
Leadership
Caroline Hu Flexer
(Co-Founder & CEO)Holds a BA in Architecture from Stanford and Harvard University. They also have an MBA from Stanford Graduate School of Business, and formerly co-founded Duck Duck Moose, a mobile educational platform for children.
Salman Khan
(Co-Founder & Executive Director)They graduated from Harvard Business School and have previously worked in Finance.
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