Coursera is a leading online learning platform for higher education, where 77 million learners from around the world come to learn skills of the future. More than 200 of the world’s top universities and industry educators partner with Coursera to offer courses, Specializations, certificates, and degree programs. Thousands of companies trust the company’s enterprise platform Coursera for Business to transform their talent. Coursera for Government equips government employees and citizens with in-demand skills to build a competitive workforce. Coursera for Campus empowers any university to offer high-quality, job-relevant online education to students, alumni, faculty, and staff. Coursera is backed by leading investors that include Kleiner Perkins, New Enterprise Associates, Learn Capital, and SEEK Group.
Growth is a dynamic, diverse team solving challenging and interesting problems at scale. We have a mission to increase the number of new learners who discover Coursera and learn on our platform. As well as using growth strategy to prioritize and test Growth Experiments to optimize our landing pages, we also work on projects that ensure we have a delightful, frictionless and Registration and Login experience, working closely with our security and infrastructure teams. To work effectively as a distributed, remote-first team, we prioritize inclusion and strong communication across locations and teams so we thrive, do our best work, and get results.
Your Responsibilities:
- Collaborate with internal engineering/security teams and third party vendors to prioritize secure and scalable user identity solutions.
- Work with architects and engineers to recommend, develop and review technical designs.
- Lead the design, development, testing and deployment of identity and access based solutions, delegating effectively to other engineers.
- Partner with internal compliance teams to identify, remediate, and prevent issues and risks.
- Mentor and guide fellow engineers remote-first to help them improve their technical ability and become more effective software engineers.
Your Skills:
- Bachelor’s Degree or Masters degree in Computer Science, MIS/CIS or equivalent work experience.
- 6+ years of experience working in a relevant software engineering role; preferably with experience of user identity management.
- Knowledge of professional software engineering and best practices for the SDLC, including coding standards, code reviews, source control management, build processes, testing, and operations.
- Expertise in designing highly-scalable and performant micro-services and storage layers using common frameworks, languages, and infrastructure (e.g. Java, Play/Scala, MySql, Elasticseach, and Kafka).
- Experience serving as technical lead throughout the full SDLC, from conception, architecture definition, detailed design, scoping, planning, implementation, testing to documentation, delivery and maintenance.
Preferred Qualifications:
- Experience building authentication and authorization features utilizing technologies like OAuth 2.0, OIDC, SAML, SSO, JWT.
- A data-informed mindset, you are strongly motivated by success and learnings through experiments and metrics analysis, and enjoy working cross functionally to justify and solve challenging problems.
- Exceptional analytical and problem solving skills with a keen, inquisitive eye for detail along with a passion for high quality standards.
- Experience building defensive mechanisms to protect accounts from authentication/authorization attacks.
- A strong sense of ownership, high standards and a bias for action (at Coursera we ship value to our learners multiple times a day).
- Comfortable working with and integrating 3rd party solutions .
- Familiarity in following areas: Security, Privacy, Cryptography, Authentication, Authorization, Risk Assessment.
Coursera is an Equal Employment Opportunity Employer and considers all qualified applicants without regard to race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, age, marital status, national origin, protected veteran status, disability, or any other legally protected class.
If you are an individual with a disability and require a reasonable accommodation to complete any part of the application process, please contact us at [email protected].
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Mountain View, CA; Remote in USA /
Engineering – Engineering /
Full-time Exempt
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