Staff Analytics Engineer

Coursera

United States · full-time

<div class="content-intro">About Coursera Coursera and Udemy are now one company, creating one of the world's most comprehensive skills development platforms for the AI era. This strengthens our ability to accelerate AI-powered innovation and shape how the world discovers and builds skills at a pivotal moment of change. Read more about the combined company by visiting our <a href="https://blog.coursera.org/coursera-and-udemy-are-now-one-company-creating-the-worlds-most-comprehensive-skills-platform/" target="_blank">blog</a>. Coursera was launched in 2012 by Andrew Ng and Daphne Koller with a mission to provide universal access to world-class learning. Coursera partners with 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 AI-powered personalized guide and features, like 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. Coursera recently combined with Udemy to create one of the world’s most comprehensive skills development platforms. 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.&nbsp; We’re a globally distributed team that comes together intentionally for collaboration, complex problem-solving, and key milestones — creating opportunities for teams to do their best work together. Our virtual hiring and onboarding experience makes it easy to join us and start making an impact from anywhere. If you’re ready to make a global impact, help scale unique products across Coursera + Udemy, and grow your career, apply below.</div>Job Overview: Analytics Engineering plays a crucial role in building robust and reliable data pipelines and data models that enable data-driven decision-making, powering various analytics, AI, and machine learning initiatives within Coursera. In addition, Analytics Engineering today owns many external facing data products that drive revenue and boost partner and learner satisfaction. As a Staff Analytics Engineer, you will be architecting high quality and scalable data pipelines powering business critical applications, leading enterprise wide data modeling strategies and driving a culture of transparent, well-governed data systems. You will collaborate with both technical and cross-functional leaders to lead and set direction on how we craft and look at data, while driving industry accepted standards on data governance, discoverability, and accessibility. You will craft 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. Responsibilities: <ul> <li style="font-family: helvetica, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 10pt;">Architect scalable data models and construct high quality ELT pipelines that act as the backbone of our core data lake, with cutting edge technologies such as Airflow, DBT, Databricks, and Sigma. Your work innovates with principles adopted by others.</li> <li style="font-family: helvetica, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 10pt;">Design, build, and launch self-serve analytics products from data consumption to data discovery and enablement. Your creations reach far beyond basic dashboarding and are intimately tied with business outcomes, identifying root causes of trends that have immediate impact.</li> <li style="font-family: helvetica, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 10pt;">Be a technical leader for the team. Your proficiency in technical and architectural designs for major team initiatives will inspire others. Help shape the future of Analytics Engineering at Coursera and foster a culture of continuous learning and growth.</li> <li style="font-family: helvetica, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 10pt;">Be a data leader for the business. Your initiatives will directly increase data literacy, significantly reduce pain points, and resolve data gaps.&nbsp;</li> <li style="font-family: helvetica, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 10pt;">Partner with data scientists, business stakeholders, and product engineers to define, curate, and govern high-fidelity data. Your ability to see KPI interrelationships and how they maximize ROI across the business makes you a recognized bridge connecting data and business outcomes.&nbsp;</li> <li style="font-family: helvetica, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 10pt;">Develop new tools and frameworks in collaboration with other engineers. Your innovative solutions will enable our customers to understand and access data more efficiently, while enhancing frameworks with AI-driven capabilities.&nbsp;</li> </ul> Basic Qualifications: <ul> <li style="font-family: helvetica, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 10pt;">10+ years experience in data/analytics engineering with expertise in data architecture, pipelines, and reporting. Expert experience with relational databases, DRY data modeling practices, and efficient SQL code generation</li> <li style="font-family: helvetica, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 10pt;">Expert experience with some of: AWS, Databricks, Delta Lake, Airflow, dbt, Redshift, Datahub; Databricks and dbt preferred&nbsp;</li> <li style="font-family: helvetica, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 10pt;">Expert experience with crafting and driving self service reporting solutions with hands on experience in BI Tools; Looker or Sigma preferred</li> <li style="font-family: helvetica, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 10pt;">Strong experience implementing Data Observability frameworks (e.g., Monte Carlo, Great Expectations) at an enterprise level</li> <li style="font-family: helvetica, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 10pt;">Strong hands on experience with AI tools such as Claude, Gemini, Cursor and its role in streamlining data processing and enabling data democratization</li> <li style="font-family: helvetica, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 10pt;">Strong experience with data lake architecture and batch and streaming architectures&nbsp;</li> <li style="font-family: helvetica, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 10pt;">Strong experience in driving industry standards in data governance and technical best practices and driving standards across multiple engineering pods or business disciplines</li> <li style="font-family: helvetica, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 10pt;">Strong ability to communicate technical concepts clearly and concisely to leadership&nbsp;<

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