Coupang

Sr. Staff Observability Software Engineer

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2 months ago
Mountain View, CA, USA or Seattle, WA, USAStaff+
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Base Salary

$17k - $299k/yr

Responsibilities

  • Design, implement, and maintain monitoring, alerting, logging, and tracing solutions across platforms, applications, and infrastructure.
  • Collaborate with software engineers, SREs, and infrastructure teams to define observability requirements.
  • Develop best practices for monitoring, alerting, and telemetry systems.
  • Evaluate and recommend observability tools and technologies to improve system visibility and reliability.
  • Define and track KPIs and SLOs for system availability, performance, and reliability.
  • Analyze observability data to assist with troubleshooting and resolution of complex incidents.
  • Mentor engineers on observability principles, practices, and tools.
  • Evaluate and optimize observability systems and drive standardization across the organization.
  • Create training materials, documentation, and runbooks for observability systems and practices.

Requirements

  • Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Electrical Engineering, Math, or a closely related field.
  • At least 8 years of experience working in engineering teams that build large-scale distributed systems.
  • Strong experience implementing and managing observability solutions in large-scale, complex environments.
  • Deep knowledge of monitoring, alerting, and logging systems and tools, including OpenTelemetry, Prometheus, Grafana, and Elastic.
  • Experience with Docker and Kubernetes is preferred.
  • Familiarity with Dynatrace, AppDynamics, Jaeger, or Zipkin is preferred.
  • Proficiency in at least one of Go, Java, Python, or Ruby is preferred.
  • Experience with AWS, Azure, or Google Cloud Platform is preferred.
  • Understanding of DevOps and SRE practices, continuous integration, continuous delivery, and infrastructure as code is preferred.
  • Professional certifications in cloud platforms, monitoring tools, or related technologies are preferred.
  • Demonstrated ability to lead and deliver observability projects and initiatives.

Benefits

  • Medical, dental, vision, life, and AD&D insurance.
  • Flexible Spending Accounts and Health Savings Account.
  • Long-term and short-term disability coverage and an Employee Assistance Program.
  • 401(k) plan with company match.
  • 18–21 days of paid time off annually based on tenure and 12 public holidays.
  • Paid parental leave.
  • Pre-tax commuter benefits.
  • Free electric car charging station.
  • The posting describes a US role with compensation varying across geographic markets.
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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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