Coursera
Mountain View, CA
501-1,000 employees
We envision a world where anyone, anywhere has the power to transform their life through learning.
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Senior Data Engineer
Senior Data Engineer
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Coursera is a leading online learning platform for higher education, where 76 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.
Data Engineering is unique at Coursera. Our team doesn’t simply build reports on demand. Rather, we build the semantic infrastructure and products that empower our internal and external customers with the data to innovate and perform their jobs better.
We’re looking for a talented and driven senior data engineer with a keen eye for data and business to help us build and scale our platform. Our ideal candidate is an independent, analytically-minded individual with strong data modeling and software engineering skills, who shares our passion for education. In this role, you’ll directly work with cross-functional teams(product, engineering, services) to design, develop, and deploy data solutions for our enterprise learners and admins.
Responsibilities:
- Architect scalable data models and build efficient and reliable ETL pipelines to bring the data into our core data lake
- Design, build, and launch visualization and self-serve analytics products that empower our internal and external customers with flexible insights
- Build data expertise, and partner with data scientists and product engineers to define and standardize business rules and maintain high-fidelity data
- Partner with other engineers in the development of new tools to enable our customers to understand and access data more efficiently
- Work cross-functionally (eg: product managers, engineers, business teams) to support new product and feature launches
Basic Qualification:
- 5+ years experience in a data-related field, including data engineering, data warehousing, business intelligence, data visualization, and/or data science
Preferred Qualifications:
- Strong software engineering skills and at least one scripting language (e.g., Python)
- Proficient with relational databases and SQL
- Familiarity and experience with big data technologies (eg: Hive, Spark, Presto) preferred
- Ability to communicate technical concepts clearly and concisely
- Independence and passion for innovation and learning new technologies
- Big Data Specialization
- Big Data Essentials - HDFS, MapReduce and Spark
- Data Warehousing for Business Intelligence
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