Site Reliability Engineer, Coursera
CA$113.6-170.4k
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Online learning platform
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Online learning platform
1001+ employees
Be an early applicant
CA$113.6-170.4k
More information about location
1001+ employees
Company mission
To provide life-transforming learning experiences to learners around the world.
Role
Who you are
- 2+ years of experience in Site Reliability, DevOps, or Backend Engineering roles
- Hands-on experience with at least one cloud platform (e.g., AWS, GCP, Azure)Experience with monitoring and logging tools (e.g., Datadog, CloudWatch, SumoLogic, Graphana)
- Familiarity with Infrastructure as Code tools (e.g., Terraform, Ansible)
- Experience writing automation scripts and backend systems in Java, Python, Bash or similar languages
Desirable
- Exposure to incident management processes and tools (e.g., PagerDuty)
- Familiarity with containerized infrastructure (e.g., Docker, Kubernetes)
- Experience working on cost visibility or optimization in cloud environments
- Knowledge of version control systems and CI/CD practices
- Experience contributing to disaster recovery or multi-region infrastructureKnowledge of security/compliance practices (e.g., audit logging, access controls)
What the job involves
- Our SRE team is part of the Coursera Infrastructure group that builds the foundation that keeps Coursera reliable, scalable, and efficient
- We partner with product and platform teams to deliver resilient systems through automation, observability, and operational excellence
- From incident response to infrastructure as code, we enable fast, safe, and cost-aware delivery of global learning experiences
- We are hiring an IC3 Site Reliability Engineer (SRE) based in Canada to join our SRE team
- This role will support reliability, observability, infrastructure automation, and cost optimization efforts across multiple services
- The engineer will work closely with senior SREs to build scalable and efficient systems using our AWS-based tech stack, and gain hands-on experience with real-world SRE projects
- Joining this team means working on high-impact projects that keep Coursera running smoothly for millions of learners and partners
- This role will contribute to building and maintaining observability systems (e.g., metrics, logs, dashboards)
- Assist in automating infrastructure provisioning, system configuration, and reducing toil
- Participate in on-call rotations and support incident response processes
- Collaborate with senior engineers on improving the reliability and scalability of services
- Implement cost monitoring tools and assist in cloud resource optimization
- Support disaster recovery planning, compliance tasks, and documentation
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.
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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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