Listing Description

Job Overview:

Coursera is an engineering-first company. Our teams are responsible for maintaining a scalable and reliable platform, in addition to building interactive products for the worldwide learner community. We are made up of teams ranging from Development Infrastructure, Growth, Learner/Consumer Experience, Content Platform, and SDET Engineering. Every day, Engineering teams collaborate with cross-functional partners, including other engineers, data scientists, and product managers.

Responsibilities:

• Perform technical security assessments, code and design reviews of Coursera’s products, applications, services and cloud infrastructure.


• Develop technical solutions to help mitigate security vulnerabilities.


• Design, develop, deploy and operate security technologies to help automate security monitoring, alerting, intrusion detection, vulnerability detection and tracking


• Design security infrastructure and drive its implementation to protect Coursera networks, systems and data


• Instrument systems to enable detection of intrusions and abuse


• Build security tools and processes for critical infrastructure and data protection, monitoring and remediation and respond to customers RFIs/RFPs

Basic Qualifications:

• BS/MS in Computer Science or a related technical field


• 5 years of experience in application-level vulnerability testing and code-level security reviews


• Relevant work experience in web applications and API security


• Software development experience in Scala, Java, Go, Python or other relevant languages


• Demonstrated foundation and technical knowledge of security engineering, computer and network security, authentication and authorization, security protocols and applied cryptography

Preferred Qualifications:

• Completed either or both OSCP and/or GIAC certifications


• Background and experience in vulnerability management and threat assessment


• Contributions to the security communities, public research, open source projects, bug bounty, etc.


• Knowledge of AWS or other IaaS and related security services and controls


• Self-motivated and results-oriented


• Ability to communicate effectively both orally and in writing

If this opportunity interests you, you might like these courses on Coursera:

• Cryptography I


• Secure Coding Practices Specialization


• Cybersecurity Specialization


• JavaScript Security Specialization

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