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ABOUT KHAN ACADEMY

Khan Academy is a nonprofit with the mission to deliver a free, world-class education to anyone, anywhere. Our proven learning platform offers free, high-quality supplemental learning content and practice that cover Pre-K - 12th grade and early college core academic subjects, focusing on math and science. We have over 181 million registered learners globally and are committed to improving learning outcomes for students worldwide, focusing on learners in historically under-resourced communities.

OUR COMMUNITY 

Our students, teachers, and parents come from all walks of life, and so do we. Our team includes people from academia, traditional/non-traditional education, big tech companies, and tiny startups. We hire great people from diverse backgrounds and experiences because it makes our company stronger. We value diversity, equity, inclusion, and belonging as necessary to achieve our mission and impact the communities we serve. We know that transforming education starts in-house with learning about ourselves and our colleagues. We strive to be world-class in investing in our people and commit to developing you as a professional.

THE ROLE

Khan Academy’s Content Platform team builds and maintains the core systems that power how our content is created, translated, published, and served at global scale. Our work directly supports equitable access to high-quality learning by enabling creators, translators, and downstream product teams to operate efficiently, reliably, and safely.

The Content Platform team owns not only backend services and pipelines, but also large, complex frontend surfaces used daily by content creators, translators, and internal product teams around the world.

As a Platform Engineer, you’ll focus on the foundational infrastructure, tooling, pipelines, and frontend and backend systems that other teams depend on, guided by our Engineering Principles. You might work on projects such as:

• Designing and building complex, stateful frontend applications that power critical authoring, translation, and review workflows at global scale.
• Designing and evolving content pipelines that support authoring, localization, validation, and publishing for millions of learners worldwide.
• Building and maintaining internal platforms, APIs, and services that enable product teams and content creators to move faster with confidence.
• Improving the performance, reliability, and observability of systems that serve content.
• Establishing strong engineering standards around testing, monitoring, migrations, and system ownership to support long-term sustainability.

With the recent launch of Khanmigo and AI-powered capabilities, this role will also help ensure that our platform can safely and reliably support AI-enabled workflows, whether that’s content generation, review, translation, or delivery, while maintaining high quality, trust, and scale. This is a role for engineers who enjoy working close to the core of the system, enabling others, and solving complex platform problems that have outsized impact across the organization, including owning and evolving long-lived frontend architectures that many teams rely on.

We are a remote-first organization and we strive to build using technology that is best suited to solving problems for our learners. Currently, we build with Go, GraphQL, JavaScript, React & React Native, Redux and we adopt new technologies like LLMs when they’ll help us better achieve our goals. At Khan, one of our values is “Cultivate Learning Mindsets”, so for us, it’s important that we’re working with all of our engineers to help match the right opportunity to the right individual, in order to ensure every engineer is operating at their “learning edge”.

You can read about our latest work on our Engineering Blog. A few highlights:

• Incremental Rewrites with GraphQL
• Our Transition to React Native
• Go + Services = One Goliath Project
• How Engineering Principles Can Help You Scale
• How to upgrade hundreds of React components without breaking production

WHAT YOU BRING

• 5+ years of experience building world-class product experiences for interactive web applications.
• Deep experience building and maintaining large, complex frontend applications (React or similar), including state management, data modeling, performance optimization, and long-term maintainability.
• Experience building and maintaining scalable backend services, and working effectively across frontend and backend boundaries.
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