Principal Software Engineer, Data Platform

Denver, CO, United States

About Us

At Udemy, we’re on a mission to transform lives through learning. Through our intelligent skills platform and a global community of instructors, we’ve helped over 70 million learners and 16,000 organizations achieve their goals. Come join us in ensuring everyone, everywhere has access to the skills they need to unlock their potential and create possibilities for themselves and others.

This hybrid position requires two days per week in our Denver office.

About You

Udemy’s Data org is looking for a highly experienced, self-driven, creative data platform engineer passionate about building a self-service platform that would help democratize Data, AI & ML across all the organizations inside Udemy.

About This Role

Architect, design, and drive implementation for next-generation GenAI-based Data-Platform-As-a-Service at Udemy.

Lead data platform initiatives towards Udemy's comprehensive data quality and governance, data catalog and lineage, data privacy, data observability, monitoring and alerting, and disaster recovery

What you'll be doing

Contribute to building, enhancing, and maintaining a robust, scalable, cost-optimized, secure, highly available, real-time framework for data ingestion, data transformation, data contracts, and AI/ML model execution using Databricks and AWS stack.

Be a thought leader to contribute to building a 2-year technical vision for Udemy Data & AI Platform.

Drive significant cross-functional initiatives with global teams to successful completion.

What you’ll have

15+ years of experience in building distributed systems using Java, Scala, and Python

10+ years of experience managing big data platforms using Kafka, Spark, AWS services (S3, EMR, RDS, Redshift, etc), Databricks, Snowflake, Airflow, Kubernetes, Docker

Extensive experience in cloud data privacy tools in the area of authentication (AWS IAM/OKTA), encryption (AWS KMS/Safenet), authorization (Apache Ranger/Privacera)

Extensive experience in DataOps, AI/MLOps, and exposure to LLMOps

We understand that not everyone will match each of the above qualifications. However, we also realize that everyone has unique experiences that can add value to our company. Even if you think your background might not perfectly align, we'd love to hear from you!

Life at Udemy

We aspire to be as vibrant and dynamic as the communities we serve, as inquisitive as those who use our platform, and as revolutionary as the future we strive to open for everyone. Here are some of the things we love about life at Udemy:

We’re invested in creating an inclusive environment that welcomes a diverse range of backgrounds and experiences. From creating employee resource groups, ensuring we’re a Fair Pay Workplace, and building a flexible work culture, our belonging, equity, diversity, and inclusion (BEDI) initiatives always put our people first. We want you to be able to bring your authentic self to work because when we all do, we’re better for it.

Learning is what we do – inside and out. Our Learning & Development team is second to none, helping ensure your journey is one of continuous progression. You’ll also have unlimited access to Udemy courses, monthly UDays (meeting-free professional development days), and a generous annual professional development stipend.

Our reason to exist is to revolutionize learning – that calls for taking risks and learning from failures. Whether it’s our hackathons (a company-wide effort to envision new possibilities for our product) or sharing our prototypes, we see experimentation as a crucial step on the path to success.

We’re committed to creating world-class employee experiences and are proud of the recognition of this by Great Place to Work.

Of course, the best thing about being part of Udemy is knowing your work makes a difference for people and organizations around the world. You’ve got the skills; why not use them to help others develop theirs?

At Udemy, we value diversity and inclusion and consider qualified applicants without regard to race, color, religion, sex, national origin, ancestry, age, genetic information, sexual orientation, gender identity, marital or family status, veteran status, medical condition, or disability. We will consider for employment qualified applicants with arrest and conviction records.

Our Benefits Start With U

Our benefits package at Udemy “starts with U” and is grounded in mission-driven benefits that intentionally align with our core values. Here’s a sneak peek at just a few highlighted benefits if you’re a full-time Udemate based in the United States:

Core Benefits: Comprehensive medical, dental, vision, life/AD&D, and disability coverage

HSA/FSA/Commuter: Pre-tax savings/spending plans, including HSA employer contributions

Transgender Benefits: Expanded medical coverage for gender-affirming care

Parental Benefits: Financial assistance for fertility (including egg-freezing), adoption, and surrogacy expenses; twelve weeks of paid family bonding for birth, surrogacy, adoption, and foster placement (plus up to six to ten weeks of paid disability leave for birthing parents) as well as a two-week “ease-back” program that enables parents to return part-time at full pay

Whole U: Fully paid memberships for meditation/mindfulness, therapy/coaching visits, financial planning, fertility and family building, maternity and newborn care, parenting and pediatrics, menopause care, breastmilk shipping, and caregiving support

Learning: Free access to Udemy and Udemy Business plus a yearly stipend to spend on professional development

Retirement: Pre-tax and Roth 401(k) plan with an employer contribution

Charitable Giving: Corporate charitable match for eligible nonprofits and charities

Vacation: Flexible vacation for salaried Udemates and fifteen days per year for hourly

Holidays: Twelve paid holidays throughout the year

Information regarding data privacy is available within the Udemy Careers Privacy Notice.

At Udemy, we strive to be transparent around compensation. Actual compensation for this role is based on several factors, including but not limited to job-related skills, qualifications, experience, and specific work location due to differences in the cost of labor. In addition to a base salary, this role is also eligible for benefits, equity and a bonus.

Hiring Compensation Range

$172,000—$215,000 USD

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