Coupang

Senior Staff Backend Engineer - Fraud Detection

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about 2 hours ago
Bengaluru, IndiaStaff+
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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 end-to-end productionization of machine learning models, including deployment, scaling, performance, and operational requirements.
  • Translate Data Science modeling requirements into scalable engineering solutions and bridge model development with production deployment.
  • Define the long-term technical vision and roadmap for data processing, ML platform capabilities, and fraud detection infrastructure.
  • Lead cross-functional initiatives, establish engineering best practices, and improve scalability, reliability, and operational excellence.
  • Mentor senior engineers, drive technical decisions, and provide leadership during 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.
  • Hands-on experience with streaming technologies such as Apache Flink, Kafka, Spark Streaming, or similar frameworks.
  • Strong proficiency in Java-based backend development and distributed-systems architecture.
  • Experience designing and building low-latency, high-throughput data pipelines and serving systems.
  • Experience deploying, scaling, and optimizing machine learning models in production environments.
  • Strong knowledge of system design, scalability, fault tolerance, and operational excellence.
  • Preferred experience in fraud detection, risk systems, trust and safety, payments risk, commerce, marketplace, fintech, or payments ecosystems.
  • Preferred experience building ML platforms, model-serving infrastructure, feature stores, or inference pipelines.
  • Preferred experience operating systems processing millions of events or transactions per day and partnering with Data Science teams to productionize models.
  • Familiarity with GenAI tools for software development, debugging, testing, and engineering productivity is preferred.
  • Experience with cloud-native architectures, containerized environments, and modern infrastructure platforms is preferred.

Benefits

  • Hybrid, onsite, or remote work model; the standard hybrid model requires at least 3 days in the office and allows 2 days working from home, depending on role requirements.
  • Employment-protection beneficiaries, including veterans and people with disabilities, may receive preferential treatment as required by applicable laws.

Tech Stack

Apache FlinkApache KafkaJava

Categories

AI & MLBackendData Engineering
Coupang

About Coupang

10,000+ employees

Coupang is a technology and Fortune 150 company listed on the New York Stock Exchange (NYSE: CPNG) that provides retail, restaurant delivery, video streaming, and fintech services to customers around the world under brands that include Coupang, Eats, Play, Rocket Now, and Farfetch.