Coupang

Senior Staff Backend Engineer - Fraud Detection

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2 months ago
Bengaluru, IndiaStaff+

Responsibilities

  • Lead the architecture, design, and development of scalable data and ML infrastructure for fraud detection, risk evaluation, and trust systems.
  • Build and optimize high-volume batch and real-time data pipelines with low latency and high reliability.
  • Own the productionization, deployment, scaling, and operation of machine learning models.
  • Partner with Data Scientists and Engineering teams to translate modeling requirements into scalable production solutions.
  • Define technical vision and roadmaps for data processing, ML platforms, and fraud detection infrastructure.
  • Lead cross-functional initiatives, establish engineering best practices, mentor senior engineers, and guide technical decisions.
  • Provide leadership during critical production incidents and architectural reviews.

Requirements

  • 13+ years of experience in backend engineering, data engineering, or large-scale distributed systems development.
  • Strong experience building large-scale, real-time distributed data processing systems and low-latency, high-throughput pipelines.
  • Hands-on experience with streaming technologies such as Apache Flink, Kafka, or Spark Streaming.
  • Strong proficiency in Java-based backend development and distributed system architecture.
  • Experience deploying, scaling, and optimizing machine learning models in production.
  • Strong knowledge of system design, scalability, fault tolerance, and operational excellence.
  • Preferred experience includes fraud detection, risk systems, trust and safety, payments risk, ML platforms, model-serving infrastructure, feature stores, inference pipelines, high-volume transaction systems, Data Science collaboration, GenAI development tools, cloud-native architectures, and containerized environments.

Benefits

  • Hybrid, onsite, or remote work models are available.
  • The hybrid model generally requires at least 3 days in the office per week, with flexibility to work from home 2 days per week depending on role requirements.
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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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