Coupang

Staff Engineer - Cloud Backend Engineering

Coupang
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14 hours ago
Bengaluru, IndiaStaff+

Responsibilities

  • Design and architect scalable cloud infrastructure, platform services, and distributed systems targeting 10X improvements in reliability, availability, performance, and efficiency.
  • Build self-service application deployment automation and infrastructure as code using tools such as Terraform, Python, Go, Ansible, and CloudFormation.
  • Provide roadmaps and technical vision for cloud infrastructure and platform services capable of achieving 99.999% availability.
  • Develop network, infrastructure, machine-type, deployment, CDN, domain, role-management, and cloud-security recommendations.
  • Operate and optimize production deployments across public, private, and hybrid cloud environments, including Kubernetes, Docker, and Linux systems.
  • Analyze performance, scalability, availability, and operational-excellence issues and automate continuous integration and infrastructure processes.
  • Influence multiple engineering teams through architecture guidance, technical leadership, and knowledge sharing.
  • Collaborate with customers, stakeholders, and lead engineers on mission-critical cloud engineering projects.

Requirements

  • Bachelor's degree and 10+ years of total experience.
  • 12+ years of hands-on cloud platform engineering experience preferred, or equivalent experience associated with the preferred degree requirement.
  • 10+ years of hands-on experience in systems engineering, Cloud DevOps, and Cloud SRE preferred.
  • 10+ years of experience leading system design and architecture using AWS or Azure services preferred.
  • 10+ years of experience building and operating infrastructure as code and working with Linux environments preferred.
  • 10+ years of experience building and managing high-performance, highly available, scalable distributed and hybrid-cloud systems preferred.
  • Strong hands-on experience with Terraform, Python or Go, and automated application-stack deployments.
  • Strong experience with Kubernetes, Docker, Linux, cloud-service integrations, and cloud automation tools.
  • Advanced AWS architecture or development certification is preferred.
  • Team-leading experience and excellent cross-group collaboration, verbal communication, and written communication skills.
  • Strong problem-solving, analytical, system-design, performance, scalability, and enterprise-architecture capabilities.

Benefits

  • Hybrid work model.
  • Global team collaboration across different locations.
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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