Senior Staff Software Engineer - Learning Content Experience

About Coursera

Coursera was launched in 2012 by Andrew Ng and Daphne Koller with a mission to provide universal access to world-class learning. Today, it is one of the largest online learning platforms in the world, with 197 million registered learners as of December 31, 2025.

Coursera partners with over 375 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 — including generative AI-powered features like Coach, Role Play, and Course Builder, and role-based solutions like Skills Tracks — enable instructors, partners, and companies to deliver scalable, personalized, and verified learning.

Institutions worldwide rely on Coursera to upskill and reskill their employees, students, and citizens in high-demand fields such as GenAI, data science, technology, and business, while learners globally turn to Coursera to master the skills they need to advance their careers. Coursera is a Delaware public benefit corporation and a B Corp

Why Join Us

At Coursera, we’re looking for inventors, innovators, and lifelong learners ready to shape the future of education. You’ll help build global programs and tools that power online learning for millions turning bold ideas into real impact. People who thrive here are customer-first builders who move fast, simplify ruthlessly, and iterate relentlessly on the metrics that matter. 

We’re a globally distributed team and let you choose the best way you work, whether it's from home, a Coursera hub, or a co-working space near you. Our virtual hiring and onboarding make it easy to join us and start making an impact from anywhere. If you’re ready to make a global impact, scale unique products exclusive to Coursera, and expand your career horizons, apply below.

Job Overview: 

The Learning Content Experience (LCE) team delivers all aspects of our content experience, including how content is ingested, generated, or authored, and how learners engage with instruction, practice their skills, and undergo evaluation. This area also includes the supporting building blocks for this experience, such as how learners receive guidance throughout the process, how an engaging, hands-on experience can be delivered in a specialized domain, and even how we assess learners' skills and tie them to outcomes.

As a senior staff engineer, you will collaborate with both technical and cross-functional leaders to help set direction for an organization of 70+ engineers. Through this collaboration, you will build a deep understanding of Product and business needs and identify opportunities for technology to further our mission. In addition, you'll also work closely with individual teams to dive into particularly hairy explorations and deliverables across this broad roadmap; you will influence technical decisions and design trade-offs to ensure we can speedily deliver on ambitious, innovative goals while building the foundations for extension and scale in years to come. Last but not least, you'll partner with Tech Leads from each team to create a forum where there is open discussion of technical challenges and opportunities to learn and grow together.

Responsibilities:

• Work cross-functionally with engineering, product, design, and data teams to inform a roadmap that balances long-term and short-term priorities, based on both big-picture perspective as well as data-informed learnings
• Collaborate with tech leads to identify and understand key architectural problems in the Learning Content Experience (LCE) domain
• Develop an architecture that efficiently addresses business challenges such as emergent complexity, leveraging foundational knowledge of design patterns and practical experience
• Promote sustainable architectural solutions by establishing and advocating for core principles, documented through decision records on API design, data storage strategies, and other key choices
• Apply industry best practices and system design expertise to guide local design decisions through collaboration and reviews with engineers
• Mentor and guide fellow engineers to help them improve their technical ability and become more effective product software engineers
• Initiate and lead high-leverage projects to raise the quality bar for how we work and what we deliver (e.g. by improving developer productivity, and/or the quality, performance, availability, and resiliency of our systems and teams)

Qualifications:

• 8+ years of experience working in a relevant product software engineering role
• 3+ years of experience iteratively driving architecture decisions in a single domain, evaluating success, and adapting these choices to changing product and b