Coupang

Senior Staff Cloud Backend Engineer

Coupang
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Base Salary

$174k - $299k/yr

Responsibilities

  • Implement SRE practices to improve the reliability, scalability, and performance of datacenter services.
  • Develop automation for infrastructure provisioning, monitoring, and management.
  • Build, deploy, maintain, and optimize observability and telemetry platforms for real-time monitoring, logging, alerting, dashboards, and reporting.
  • Analyze system performance and resource utilization and implement optimization practices.
  • Conduct root cause analysis, post-mortem reviews, troubleshooting, and resolution of hardware and software issues.
  • Collaborate with engineering teams and hardware and software vendors on observability, reliability, and technology integration.
  • Ensure observability and reliability solutions comply with security policies and industry standards.
  • Maintain documentation and continuously improve datacenter service reliability, scalability, and performance.

Requirements

  • Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Electrical Engineering, Math, or a closely related field.
  • At least 8 years of experience in backend software development.
  • Experience working in cloud environments, particularly AWS.
  • Demonstrated experience building and maintaining highly available, distributed systems.
  • Preferred: proficiency with observability tools such as Prometheus, Grafana, and ELK Stack.
  • Preferred: experience with SRE practices and tools such as Kubernetes, Docker, and Terraform.
  • Preferred: strong programming and scripting skills in Python, Go, or Bash.
  • Preferred: familiarity with AWS, Azure, GCP, and their observability and reliability services.
  • Preferred: strong problem-solving, communication, collaboration, and attention-to-detail skills.

Benefits

  • Medical, dental, vision, life, and AD&D insurance.
  • Flexible Spending Accounts and Health Savings Account.
  • Long-term and short-term disability coverage and an Employee Assistance Program.
  • 401(k) plan with company match.
  • 18–21 days of paid time off annually based on tenure.
  • 12 public holidays and paid parental leave.
  • Pre-tax commuter benefits.
  • Free electric car charging station.
  • Base pay varies by US geographic market; the stated range is $174,00/year to $299,000/year.

Categories

BackendDevOpsSite Reliability
Coupang

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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