Senior Security Engineer
- Canada
- Engineering
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.
Join us in our mission to create a world where anyone, anywhere can transform their life through access to education. We're seeking talented individuals who share our passion and drive to revolutionize the way the world learns.
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:
- Participate in implementing and managing the Information Security Program including security incident response, vulnerability management, data protection, and risk management
- Undertake and lead regulatory readiness assessments and development of appropriate compliance strategies (SOX, SOC2, ISO27001, FERPA, PCI, 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
- Review contracts with Enterprise Customers and Partners to assure compliance with Information Security security and privacy requirements and provide input to Legal Team
- Working with Sales, lead the response to customer questionnaires dealing with our security and data protection policies. Plan and execute risk assessments of our products and services associated with cloud infrastructure.
- Establishing and coordinating remediation and mitigation for identified security risks. And manage company information security incident response
- Ensuring technical security controls are in place, maintained and audited on a periodic basis
Basic Qualifications:
- 7+ years’ of hands-on experience in an Information Security and Compliance role
- Have solid knowledge of ISO 27001, NIST and other information security standards and have practical experience implementing these standards
- Solid foundation and good technical knowledge of security engineering, computer and network security, authentication, security protocols and cryptography
Preferred Qualifications:
- Certifications like CISSP, CISA, CISM, CCSP, AWS Architect or Certified Security
- Previous experience reviewing/writing security documents
If this opportunity interests you, you might like these courses on Coursera:
- Secure Software Design
- Enterprise and Infrastructure Security
- IT Security: Defense against the digital dark arts
Compensation:
Coursera offers competitive pay and equitable compensation practices. Our job titles may span more than one career level. The targeted hiring base salary range for this role is between CAD $134,000 - 198,000 for all Canada candidates. The actual base pay is dependent upon many factors, including but not limited to prior work experiences, training/education, transferable skills, business needs, and geographical location. The base pay range is subject to change and may be modified in the future. This role may also be eligible for variable pay, equity, and benefits.