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Base Salary
$164k - $282k/yr
Responsibilities
- Design and build scalable, highly available, multi-tiered distributed backend services for fulfillment, orders, and delivery.
- Benchmark the platform, collect metrics, and publish performance results.
- Measure and maintain platform reliability and uptime against a 99.995% guarantee.
- Estimate capacity and provision clusters for different customer workloads.
- Develop production monitoring and alerting and support incident response.
- Analyze open-source platform components and code, investigate critical system issues, and address systemic root causes.
- Collaborate with other teams to make the platform open and extensible.
- Coach and lead high-performing software engineers and support cross-functional technical design and requirements gathering.
Requirements
- 10+ years of experience working directly within engineering teams in a fast-moving environment.
- 10+ years of experience developing and operating backend services and web applications.
- Bachelor’s degree and 7+ years of total experience.
- Experience delivering complex, high-performance, highly available distributed software systems to customers.
- Strong familiarity with Java, Spring Framework, and AWS.
- Extensive experience managing mission-critical, high-throughput, low-latency services.
- Experience with SQL or NoSQL database systems such as Cassandra or MySQL.
- Lead-engineer experience coaching and motivating software engineers.
- Strong communication, collaboration, problem-solving, and cross-functional leadership skills.
- Knowledge of software engineering practices across coding, code reviews, build processes, testing, and live-site operations.
Benefits
- Medical, dental, vision, life, AD&D, disability, and employee assistance program benefits.
- Flexible Spending Accounts and Health Savings Account.
- 401(k) plan with company match.
- 18–21 days of paid time off annually based on tenure and 12 paid holidays.
- Up to six weeks of paid parental leave.
- Pre-tax commuter benefits.
- Free electric car charging station.
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).