Udemy operates a two-sided marketplace for skills learning at significant scale: 85 million learners, 85,000 instructors, and over 1.1 billion course enrollments across 250,000+ courses. The tech stack reveals infrastructure investment (Kafka, RabbitMQ, Kubernetes, DynamoDB) supporting high-volume transaction processing and personalization. Active projects show a shift from monolithic to distributed service architecture alongside aggressive geographic expansion (LATAM pipeline, DACH client expansion), while hiring concentrates in sales (38 roles) and engineering (27 roles)—a mix reflecting both marketplace growth and platform modernization demands.
Notable leadership hires: Director
Udemy is a public online learning platform founded in 2010 that serves individual learners, instructors, and enterprise customers. The platform hosts courses across 77 languages covering technical skills (programming, data science), business, and creative domains. On the learner side, Udemy targets individual career advancement; on the supply side, it recruits instructors at scale. The business model spans direct-to-consumer subscriptions and enterprise licensing (B2B segment with 17,000+ business customers). The company operates globally with headquarters in San Francisco and distributed hiring across 12 countries.
Udemy's backend runs on AWS (Aurora, DynamoDB, RabbitMQ, Kafka), with infrastructure-as-code via Terraform and Kubernetes orchestration. Application logic spans Python, JavaScript, Kotlin, and Spring Boot; data and caching layers use MySQL, Redis, and Memcached. Salesforce is the CRM and financial backbone.
Udemy recruits across 12 countries: United States, Brazil, Ireland, Germany, Mexico, India, Australia, Singapore, Turkey, Japan, France, and South Korea—reflecting global business expansion and distributed workforce strategy.
Other companies in the same industry, closest in size