1 day ago
Seoul, Korea, SouthSenior
Responsibilities
- Design a greenfield AWS data lake architecture, schemas, and data contracts with upstream HR and talent systems while ensuring PIPA compliance.
- Consolidate relocation, visa, vendor, and payroll ETL pipelines into a unified and reliable architecture.
- Build multi-country data routing engines supporting operations across Korea, Taiwan, Japan, and other regions.
- Power operational BI, analytical reporting, and process automation for Global Mobility, payroll, and compliance teams.
- Create data quality frameworks, validation rules, monitoring, and automated alerting for production pipelines.
- Own technical execution including infrastructure provisioning, tooling selection, architecture decision records, and operational runbooks.
- Balance the Q3 go-live target with long-term architectural integrity, scalability, and maintainability.
Requirements
- At least 3 years of production software engineering experience with an SDE background.
- Deep expertise in Python or Java, AWS infrastructure, and database design.
- At least 1 year of experience designing and building ETL/ELT pipelines and using orchestration tools such as Airflow or Temporal.
- Experience with dynamic schema design, data validation, pipeline observability, and end-to-end system architecture.
- Ability to translate ambiguous business needs into concrete technical specifications for Year 1 and Year 2 scale.
- Understanding of data governance, privacy standards, security requirements, and cross-functional stakeholder priorities.
- Preferred experience handling sensitive PII, working with compliance standards, deploying multi-region systems, taking greenfield projects to production, or using Coupang's technology stack.
Benefits
- Full-time regular position.
- Includes a 12-week probation period, which may be skipped, shortened, or extended based on business needs.
- The role offers end-to-end ownership of a greenfield data infrastructure project and collaboration across global HR operations.
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).
