At Coursera, we stand on the shoulders of many great open source projects like Scala, Django, Nginx, Ubuntu and countless other libraries and tools. This allows us to focus on what we want to do best: build the best online...

Jonathan is a student from Texas who loves to learn. He joins the Coursera infrastructure team as a software engineering intern this summer between graduating from high school and starting freshman year at Princeton. In his spare time, he loves...

Editor’s Note: Meet Shadaj Laddad, one of Coursera’s summer interns. In this expository blog post, Shadaj shares the day-to-day adventures of working at Coursera this summer. Thank you for all your hard work, Shadaj. We will miss you!! This summer,...

Learners on Coursera spend the majority of their time on the site watching videos, a format that allows Coursera’s partner universities to educate at scale. These videos range from thirty-second snippets to hour-long debates and presented interesting challenges in preparing...

Engineering values at Coursera We have been having discussions on the engineering team on code quality, which turned into higher level discussions on our culture and values. As we are maturing as an organization, these discussions are important to help...