8 hours ago
Seoul, Korea, SouthStaff+
Responsibilities
- Architect and scale enterprise security foundations, reference architectures, security standards, and governance frameworks.
- Design secure architectures for large-scale distributed systems, business-critical applications, infrastructure, and internal platforms.
- Define security policies, authorization models, policy languages, and security frameworks.
- Build security automation solutions and security platforms using modern software engineering practices.
- Drive the architecture and evolution of IAM, authentication, authorization, credential management, and access-control ecosystems.
- Establish best practices for applied cryptography, key management, PKI, and secure credential lifecycle management.
- Review complex system designs and provide guidance balancing security, scalability, business, and operational needs.
- Contribute hands-on coding, prototyping, automation, and security tooling development primarily with Python.
- Identify security gaps, evaluate emerging technologies, and lead strategic security initiatives.
Requirements
- Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Computer Engineering, Cybersecurity, or a related technical field.
- At least 8 years of experience in security engineering, security architecture, platform engineering, or related technical disciplines; the posting also states an alternative of 10+ years.
- Deep expertise in at least one of IAM; authentication and authorization including OIDC, OAuth 2.0, and Federation; applied cryptography and key management; credential management; PKI; or security policy and access-management platforms.
- Strong understanding of secure system design in large-scale distributed environments.
- Hands-on Python software development experience and the ability to design, develop, and automate security solutions.
- Experience driving architecture decisions across complex infrastructure and platform environments.
- Ability to solve ambiguous, high-impact technical challenges and influence engineers, architects, and technical leadership.
- Preferred qualifications include enterprise-scale security experience, IAM or Zero Trust platforms, policy languages and authorization frameworks, intrusion or threat detection, security monitoring, distributed systems, and high-growth technology environments.
- Industry certifications such as CISSP, ISSAP, CCSP, SABSA, TOGAF, or equivalent are preferred.
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).