Software Engineer I, Internal Tools
Coursera
Coursera was launched in 2012 by Andrew Ng and Daphne Koller with a mission to provide universal access to world-class learning. It is now one of the largest online learning platforms in the world, with 183 million registered learners as of June 30, 2025. Coursera partners with over 350 leading university and industry partners to offer a broad catalog of content and credentials, including courses, Specializations, Professional Certificates, and degrees. Coursera’s platform innovations enable instructors to deliver scalable, personalized, and verified learning experiences to their learners. Institutions worldwide rely on Coursera to upskill and reskill their employees, citizens, and students in high-demand fields such as GenAI, data science, technology, and business. Coursera is a Delaware public benefit corporation and a B Corp.
We’re a global platform aiming to transform lives through learning by offering transformative courses, certificates, and degrees that empower learners worldwide to advance their careers through skill mastery. We’re looking for inventors, innovators, and lifelong learners eager to shape the future of education. If you’re ready to build the global programs and tools that fuel the power of online learning, join Team Coursera.
At Coursera, we are committed to building a globally diverse team and are thrilled to extend employment opportunities to individuals in any country where we have a legal entity. We require candidates to possess eligible working rights and have a compatible timezone overlap with their team to facilitate seamless collaboration.
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Job Overview
We are looking for an enthusiastic Software Engineer to join our Internal Tools team at Coursera. This team builds high-leverage internal products that support our employees across functions such as content operations, learner support, finance, and legal. As part of this team, you’ll work on meaningful projects, enhance the team’s developer experience, build robust backend solutions and support deploying and scaling applications in cloud-native environments. You’ll collaborate cross-functionally to ensure our tools are intuitive, performant, and aligned with business needs.
Key Responsibilities
- Assist in building and improving web-based internal tools used by various teams at Coursera.
- Write clean, efficient, and maintainable backend code with support from your team.
- Help maintain documentation, fix bugs, and test features to ensure quality.
- Manage services, networks, storage, deployment, security, and monitoring in AWS/GCP.
- Automate deployment, testing, and configuration management using tools like Jenkins/GitHub Actions.
- Support in the design of processes to automate software updates and assist with maintaining deployment environments.
- Work with other engineers on the team to improve developer experience, software performance, stability, and diagnostics collection.
- Monitor for trends in usage that will require hosting/instance/pricing adjustments.
- Stay up-to-date with emerging technologies and industry trends to drive continuous improvement of our infrastructure and engineering processes.
Qualifications
Education:
- Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Engineering, or a related field (completed or in final year).
Skills & Experience:
- 3+ years of experience working in backend and/or infrastructure/devops roles.
- Strong foundation in backend engineering principles (APIs, REST, microservices, asynchronous systems, etc.)
- Proficiency in at least one backend language (Python, Java, Go or Node.js) and exposure to relational and NoSQL databases (MySQL, PostreSQL, MongoDB).
- Experience with API design and working with frameworks such as FastAPI, Django, Spring Boot, Express, or similar.
- Familiarity with containerization platforms like Docker.
- Understanding of cloud platforms (AWS, GCP, or Azure).
- Hands-on experience with CI/CD pipelines (Jenkins, GitHub Actions, CircleCI, etc.)
- Basic knowledge of Linux system administration and shell scripting.
- Experience with version control systems (Git, GitHub/Gitlab).
- Experience with infrastructure as code tools (eg. Terraform) preferred.
- Excellent communication and collaboration skills, with a proactive mindset.
- Strong problem-solving and analytical skills, with a strong willingness to learn and adapt in a collaborative environment.
Why Join Us?
- Solve real-world challenges that drive real impact across Coursera’s business functions.
- Work with a supportive team and shape the internal developer experience at scale.
- Grow your technical and professional skills through structured development opportunities.
- Be part of a mission-driven company transforming global access to education.