12 hours ago
Bengaluru, IndiaStaff+
Responsibilities
- Serve as technical lead for demanding cross-functional projects involving Inventory and Promise.
- Design and architect new microservices and machine learning pipelines.
- Decompose complex problems into straightforward, scalable solutions.
- Build and operate high-performance, reliable distributed systems.
- Conduct code reviews and identify correctness, performance, and reliability issues.
- Mentor engineers and support career development across the technical community.
- Influence architecture and technical direction across multiple teams.
Requirements
- 8+ years of experience designing and operating high-scale distributed systems with strict latency and reliability requirements.
- Excellent hands-on coding ability in Java or a similar language for backend systems at scale.
- Deep understanding of API design, concurrency, data modeling, caching, messaging, and service-to-service communication.
- Experience with production systems handling high QPS, large data volumes, or Tier-1 SLAs.
- Experience with Kafka-based event-driven architectures and multi-region systems.
- Experience with resilience engineering, including circuit breakers, retries, load testing, capacity planning, and graceful degradation.
- Track record of technical leadership, architecture direction, cross-team alignment, and mentoring senior engineers.
- Preferred experience in ecommerce, fulfillment, supply chain, logistics, inventory, order management, or planning systems.
- Preferred experience with optimization systems such as CPLEX, OR-Tools, decision engines, constraint programming, or data-science-integrated production systems.
- Preferred experience using agentic AI development and code-review tools such as Cursor, Copilot, Devin, or Claude Code.
- Preferred experience with specification-driven development using OpenAPI, Swagger, Protocol Buffers, API-first design, or contract-first development.
Benefits
- Hybrid work model with at least three days in the office per week and flexibility to work from home two days per week, depending on role requirements.
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About Coupang
Coupang builds and operates a South Korea–focused e-commerce marketplace with an end-to-end logistics network (Rocket Delivery), plus food delivery, video streaming, and fintech under brands such as Coupang, Eats, and Play. Revenue comes from first-party retail, third-party marketplace services, advertising, and memberships (Rocket WOW). Founded in 2010, the company is headquartered in Seattle and is publicly listed on the NYSE (CPNG).