Staff Security Engineer

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.

Coursera has a commitment to enabling flexibility and workspace choices for employees. Our interviews and onboarding are entirely virtual, providing a smooth and efficient experience for our candidates. As an employee, we enable you to select your main way of working, whether it's from home, one of our offices or hubs, or a co-working space near you.

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 :

• Implement and manage the Information Security Program including security incident response, vulnerability management, data protection, and risk management
• Plan and execute vulnerability assessments of our products and services associated with cloud infrastructure.
• Lead Cybersecurity Incident Response Team (CIRT) : triage, respond to and investigate security incidents affecting platform and services
• Lead regulatory readiness assessments and development of appropriate compliance strategies (SOX, SOC2, FERPA, ISO27001, NIST, etc.)
• Documenting and maintaining security policies, standards, guidelines, processes and procedures, and other related documents, as requested, and representing the Security Team during internal and external audits
• Working with Sales, lead the response to customer questionnaires dealing with our security and data protection policies. Review Information Security and privacy related requirements in contracts and provide input to Legal Team
• Perform technical security assessments, architecture and design reviews of Coursera's products, applications, services and cloud infrastructure
• Provide security expertise and guidance to all Coursera engineering and business teams
• Develop technical solutions to help mitigate security vulnerabilities
• Establishing and coordinating remediation and mitigation for identified security risks
• Ensuring technical security controls are in place, maintained and audited on a periodic basis

Basic Qualifications :

Preferred Qualifications :

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Compensation

US Zone 1 : $160,000 to $230,000 USD

US Zone 2 : $135,000 to $205,000 USD

US Zone 3 : $125,000 to $195,000 USD

The range(s) listed above is the expected annual base salary for this role, subject to change.

Salary is just one component of Coursera's total rewards package. All regular employees are also eligible for a bonus program and equity in the form of RSU's.

A number of factors are taken into account when determining pay, which includes : job level, location, training / education, business need, skill set and internal equity.

Current Zone Locations :

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