Coupang

Staff Backend Engineer - Intelligent Cloud

Coupang
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4 hours ago
Bengaluru, IndiaStaff+

Responsibilities

  • Design and build scalable backend systems for pricing, billing, and usage metering.
  • Develop event-driven architectures that process large volumes of real-time usage and infrastructure data.
  • Build systems providing real-time visibility into customer usage and billing metrics.
  • Design rate cards, pricing plans, discounting, and multi-currency transaction components.
  • Develop distributed systems supporting rapidly growing customers and usage events.
  • Collaborate with product, infrastructure, and platform teams on cloud-native commerce capabilities.
  • Ensure accuracy, reliability, scalability, and correctness in revenue-critical systems.
  • Contribute to architecture decisions and drive engineering best practices.

Requirements

  • 8+ years of backend engineering experience.
  • Strong proficiency in Java-based backend development.
  • Experience with cloud platforms, preferably AWS.
  • Experience building event-driven architectures and distributed systems.
  • Experience designing and scaling high-throughput systems handling large volumes of events.
  • Experience with AWS-managed databases such as Aurora or similar OLTP systems.
  • Familiarity with containerized systems and Kubernetes ecosystems.
  • Experience building real-time systems such as usage tracking, billing, or metering pipelines.
  • Strong understanding of system design, scalability, and reliability principles.
  • Strong problem-solving skills focused on efficiency and correctness.
  • Experience collaborating with cross-functional teams.
  • Preferred: experience with Golang, deep AWS expertise, large-scale event processing, cloud commerce or billing systems, real-time usage metering or invoicing, Kubernetes-based observability signals, high-growth systems, and multi-tenant customer-facing cloud platforms.

Benefits

  • Hybrid, onsite, or remote work models are available.
  • The hybrid model generally requires at least 3 days per week in the office and allows 2 days per week working from home, depending on role requirements; some businesses may require more office time.
  • Eligible recipients of veteran’s benefits, people with disabilities, and others covered by employment-protection laws may receive preferential treatment.

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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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