21 days ago
Bengaluru, IndiaStaff+
Responsibilities
- Serve as a technical lead for complex cross-functional inventory and promise projects.
- Design architectures and systems for new microservices and machine learning pipelines.
- Decompose complex technical problems into straightforward solutions.
- Build and operate performant, scalable, reliable distributed systems.
- Review complex code for correctness, performance, and reliability issues.
- Mentor engineers and support career development across the technical community.
- Influence architecture and engineering practices across multiple teams.
- Drive cross-team alignment and improve team productivity and effectiveness.
Requirements
- 8+ years of experience designing and operating high-scale distributed systems with strict latency and reliability requirements.
- Excellent hands-on coding ability in Java or a similar language for backend systems at scale.
- Deep understanding of API design, concurrency, data modeling, caching, messaging, and service-to-service communication.
- Experience with production systems handling high QPS, large data volumes, or Tier-1 SLAs.
- Experience with Kafka-based event-driven architectures and multi-region systems.
- Experience with resilience engineering, including circuit breakers, retry strategies, load testing, capacity planning, and graceful degradation.
- Track record of technical leadership, architecture direction, cross-team alignment, and mentoring senior engineers.
- Preferred experience in ecommerce, fulfillment, supply chain, logistics, inventory, order management, or planning systems.
- Preferred experience with optimization systems such as CPLEX, OR-Tools, decision engines, constraint programming, or production systems integrated with data science.
- Preferred experience using AI-assisted development and code-review tools such as Cursor, Copilot, Devin, or Claude Code.
- Preferred experience with specification-driven development using OpenAPI/Swagger, Protocol Buffers, API-first design, or contract-first development.
Benefits
- Hybrid work model requiring at least three days in the office per week, with flexibility to work from home two days per week depending on role requirements.
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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).