Senior Staff Back-end Engineer

• Company Coupang
• No. of Openings 10+
• Salary Not Disclosed
• Work Type on-site

Job Description :

We exist to wow our customers. We know we’re doing the right thing when we hear our customers say, “How did we ever live without Coupang?” Born out of an obsession to make shopping, eating, and living easier than ever, we’re collectively disrupting the multi-billion-dollar e-commerce industry from the ground up. We are one of the fastest-growing e-commerce companies that established an unparalleled reputation for being a dominant and reliable force in South Korean commerce.

We are proud to have the best of both worlds — a startup culture with the resources of a large global public company. This fuels us to continue our growth and launch new services at the speed we have been since our inception. We are all entrepreneurs surrounded by opportunities to drive new initiatives and innovations. At our core, we are bold and ambitious people that like to get our hands dirty and make a hands-on impact. At Coupang, you will see yourself, your colleagues, your team, and the company grow every day.

Our mission to build the future of commerce is real. We push the boundaries of what’s possible to solve problems and break traditional tradeoffs. Join Coupang now to create an epic experience in this always-on, high-tech, and hyper-connected world.

Job Overview

The Developer Platform team is responsible for Coupang’s developer experiences including Coupang’s internal workload management and microservice ecosystem which scales to thousands of microservices. We are in the process to revolutionize our developer experiences and internal infrastructure by adopting the best technologies available.

We are looking for an architect who has deep understanding of the distributed system, hands-on experiences in large-scale backend services, Kubernetes, gRPC and service mesh. You will be responsible to design the architecture and lead the team to deliver a modern platform that powers all of Coupang’s internal services.

What You Will Do

As a Senior Staff Software Engineer in the Developer platform, you will partner with leaders of multiple platform teams. You will work closely with the product team to define and implement simple solutions to complex infrastructure problems while ensuring to build a highly scalable, reliable, and efficient platform for our customers. You will technically guide teams working on full stack development teams using JAVA, AWS, Kafka, Kubernetes, gRPC, and service mesh. You will be accountable for hiring and developing technical leaders and top talent, raising the bar on engineering and operational excellence.

• Architect workload and service management infrastructure.
• Hands-on develop critical infrastructure components.
• Decompose complex problems into simple, straightforward solutions, providing mechanisms for the teams to prioritize ruthlessly and “move with urgency”.
• Envision roadmaps for the scalable and robust growth of Coupang’s growing Application infrastructure.
• Align with stakeholders, develop strong developers and provide technical guidance to engineers on critical projects to resolve complex business problems.
• Demonstrate excellence resulting in scalable systems and services with the highest quality architecture and design.
• Dive deep into critical system issues, proactively addressing similar root causes, and raise the bar on Operational Excellence.
• Collaborate with other Coupang tech leaders to make the service extensible to unlock opportunities for innovations.

Qualifications

• One who has a bachelor’s degree in computer science or related technical fields.
• One who has 10+ years professional software development experience, or 8 years experience with an advanced degree.
• One who has 4+ years’ experience of a project tech lead.
• One who has hands-on experience in designing and developing large-scale distributed systems in the last 4 years.
• One who is fluent in one or more among C++, Java and Go.
• Proven track record of delivering mission-critical systems.
• Experience developing and growing senior individual contributors globally.
• Experience with cloud computing using AWS or Azure or GCP.

Preferred Qualifications

• One who has experience in Kubernetes, gRPC, Envoy proxy and Envoy xDS API.
• One who has experience in concurrency, multi-threading, synchronization, and non-blocking IO.
• One who has a deep understanding of operating system kernel and distributed systems such as Kafka, Cassandra and Google Spanner.
• One who has experience in CI/CD pipelines, Jfrog artifactory, Yaml and AWS cloud.
• Ability to handle multiple competing priorities in a fast-paced environment and leading the delivery of large-scale services for complex business offerings.
• Ability to influence cross functional stakeholders, prioritize ruthlessly, Aim High and Find a Way to deliver results with grit.
• One who is capable of or is fluent in English communication.
• One who has master's or Ph.D. degree in computer science or other related technical fields.