3 days ago
Singapore (city not specified)Senior
Responsibilities
- Define and own the multi-year technical strategy and architecture roadmap for the Advertising platform.
- Architect, develop, and optimize ultra-low-latency backend systems for ad delivery, real-time impression tracking, and monetization workflows at massive scale.
- Drive cross-team technical solutions for high-concurrency real-time ad insertion during peak live sports broadcasts.
- Partner with Product, Ad Operations, Finance, and Legal to translate business goals into resilient and compliant technical architectures.
- Guide technical alignment across payments, subscriptions, promotions, and ticketing capabilities.
- Use AI for task automation and to improve engineering productivity, code quality, and delivery velocity.
Requirements
- Bachelor’s degree or equivalent practical experience and at least 2 years of large-scale backend application and distributed-systems engineering experience.
- Proven experience architecting, scaling, and operating mission-critical, low-latency, high-throughput distributed systems.
- Deep expertise in performance profiling, bottleneck resolution, and cost/performance trade-offs.
- Deep expertise in one or more of Go, Java, JavaScript, or Node.js.
- Production experience with modern cloud infrastructure and distributed storage or streaming technologies such as AWS or GCP, Kafka, and Redis.
- Strong verbal and written communication skills and the ability to influence technical and business stakeholders.
- Preferred: Master’s degree in Computer Science or a related technical field.
- Preferred: production experience with large-scale ad-tech systems, including video ad serving, SSAI/CSAI, VAST/VMAP, real-time bidding, impression or click tracking, or programmatic advertising.
- Preferred: experience architecting e-commerce or monetization systems such as payment gateways, billing and subscriptions, promotion engines, or high-concurrency ticketing platforms.
- Preferred: experience partnering with iOS, Android, and Smart TV engineering leads on client-to-server and Ad SDK architectures.
- Preferred: professional English communication skills.
Benefits
- Full-time regular employment.
- Includes a 12-week probation period, which may be skipped, shortened, or extended based on business needs.
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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).