13 days ago
Base Salary
$164k - $282k/yr
Responsibilities
- Lead the architectural design and implementation of a distributed workflow engine from scratch.
- Design and maintain a highly available platform targeting 5–6 nines of availability.
- Build scalable, fault-tolerant backend infrastructure for long-running workflows as code.
- Solve distributed locking, timers, deterministic execution, state management, tail latency, and edge-case challenges.
- Integrate AI/ML models for predictive scaling, bottleneck detection, and intelligent error recovery.
- Collaborate across the organization and influence platform adoption without direct authority.
- Set architectural standards and contribute high-performance, reliable code.
Requirements
- Bachelor’s degree in computer science, Electrical Engineering, Math, or a closely related field.
- At least 6 years of backend software development experience.
- Proficiency in Java and the Spring Framework.
- Experience working in cloud environments, particularly AWS.
- Experience building and maintaining highly available, distributed systems.
- Preferred: 10+ years of professional software development experience building backend infrastructure for global-scale traffic.
- Preferred: experience operating systems with 5–6 nines of availability and designing mission-critical databases, messaging queues, or orchestration engines.
- Preferred: expert Java and Python skills with a deep understanding of concurrency and memory management.
- Preferred: experience or architectural vision for using AI/ML in system automation and operations.
- Preferred: familiarity with Temporal or Cadence programming models and architecture, Kubernetes, and containerization.
- Preferred: Cassandra and TiDB experience.
- Preferred: contributions to major open-source distributed-systems projects.
- Preferred: expertise in distributed tracing, advanced telemetry, and highly observable systems.
Benefits
- Base pay ranges from $164,000/year to $282,000/year depending on geographic market and qualifications.
- Annual bonus opportunity of 0–20% of base salary.
- 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, 12 paid holidays, and paid parental leave.
- Pre-tax commuter benefits and a free electric car charging station.
- Recruitment process includes application review, phone interview, and onsite or virtual onsite interview.
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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).