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Staff Software Engineer, Backend
Location
United States
Posted
28 days ago
Salary
$158.4K - $198K / year
Job Description
Job Requirements
- 7+ years of experience working in a relevant software engineering role
- Expertise in designing highly-scalable and performant micro-services and storage layers using common frameworks, languages, and infrastructure (e.g., Java, MySQL, Cassandra, Solr, Kafka)
- Comfortable working in a fast-moving team environment (we deploy many times a day!)
- Data-driven and strongly motivated by success and learnings through experiments and metrics analysis
- Experience in building and launching successful products, particularly with an understanding of defining and managing APIs and system and data architecture
- Strong commitment to Coursera's mission of transforming lives through learning
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