Coupang

Sr. Staff Back-end engineer [Promise Platform]

Coupang
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Base Salary

$17k - $299k/yr

Responsibilities

  • Lead demanding cross-functional projects involving Inventory and Promise.
  • Architect and design new microservices and machine learning pipelines.
  • Decompose complex technical problems into straightforward, scalable solutions.
  • Apply expert knowledge of performance, scalability, distributed architecture, and engineering best practices.
  • Mentor engineers and support career development across the technical community.
  • Influence multiple teams and improve their productivity and effectiveness through technical leadership.

Requirements

  • Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Electrical Engineering, Math, or a closely related field.
  • 10+ years of backend software development experience.
  • Demonstrated experience building and maintaining highly available, distributed systems.
  • Preferred: experience with scalable distributed systems, machine learning algorithms, backend architecture, distributed systems, message-oriented architecture, fault-tolerant production systems, monitoring, stream processing, caching, storage, and horizontal scaling.
  • Preferred: experience operationalizing software in large-scale, high-availability environments and working with eCommerce supply-chain inventory systems.
  • Preferred: software development experience with Java, Scala, and Python, plus AWS experience.

Benefits

  • Medical, dental, vision, life, AD&D, disability, FSA, HSA, EAP, and 401(k) benefits with company match.
  • 18–21 days of paid time off annually based on tenure and 12 public holidays.
  • Paid parental leave and pre-tax commuter benefits.
  • Free electric car charging station.
  • Base pay varies across US geographic markets and is supplemented by potential bonuses, equity, or other compensation.

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Coupang

About Coupang

5,001-10,000 employees

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).

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