4 days ago
Singapore, SingaporeStaff+
Responsibilities
- Define the architecture and implementation of a highly scalable, fault-tolerant durable execution and workflow platform.
- Design for 99.9999% availability by addressing tail latency, distributed state management, and edge cases.
- Integrate AI/ML models for predictive scaling, bottleneck detection, intelligent error recovery, and self-healing system behavior.
- Solve complex distributed-systems problems involving distributed locking, timers, and deterministic execution.
- Validate architectural decisions against massive traffic patterns and collaborate with product teams on infrastructure needs.
Requirements
- Bachelor's degree in computer science, electrical engineering, mathematics, or a closely related field.
- At least 8 years of backend software development experience.
- Proficiency in Java and the Spring Framework.
- Experience working in cloud environments, particularly AWS.
- Demonstrated experience building and maintaining highly available, distributed systems.
- Preferred qualifications include 12 or more years of professional software development experience and experience supporting global-scale traffic.
- Preferred experience includes 5–6 nines availability, mission-critical databases or messaging systems, Java and Python concurrency and memory management, AI/ML system automation, Temporal or Cadence, Kubernetes, containerization, Cassandra, TiDB, distributed tracing, and advanced telemetry.
Benefits
- The role is open only to Singapore citizens and permanent residents.
- The recruitment process includes application review, phone interview, and onsite or virtual onsite interview.
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).