Coupang

Staff Engineer - Cloud Backend Engineering

Coupang
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2 months ago
Bengaluru, IndiaStaff+

Responsibilities

  • Design and architect scalable cloud infrastructure, platform services, and backend systems that improve reliability, availability, performance, efficiency, and productivity at 10X scale.
  • Build self-service code and end-to-end infrastructure-as-code and cloud deployment automation for application stacks.
  • Provide the roadmap and technical vision for robust cloud infrastructure and platform service growth targeting 99.999% availability.
  • Own cloud infrastructure architecture, design, deployment, maintenance, reliability, scalability, and optimization.
  • Analyze distributed production deployments and recommend performance improvements and process automation using continuous integration, monitoring, and testing tools.
  • Solve complex technical problems across AWS, Azure, GCP, private cloud, and hybrid cloud environments, including networking, machine types, domains, role management, CDN, and security.
  • Influence multiple engineering teams by sharing deep technical knowledge and improving their productivity and effectiveness.
  • Collaborate with customers, stakeholders, engineering leaders, and lead engineers on mission-critical projects.

Requirements

  • Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science or equivalent, with 7+ years of total experience; preferred qualifications include a master’s degree and 15+ years of hands-on cloud platform engineering experience.
  • 10+ years of hands-on experience in system engineering, Cloud DevOps, Cloud SRE, infrastructure-as-code, cloud infrastructure engineering, or high-performance distributed systems.
  • 7+ years of experience leading system design and architecture using AWS or Azure services.
  • 7+ years of experience building and managing highly available, scalable hybrid cloud environments.
  • Hands-on experience with Terraform, Python or Go, Linux, Kubernetes, Docker, and cloud service integrations.
  • AWS Advanced Architecting and Developing on AWS certifications are preferred.
  • Team leadership experience and strong cross-group collaboration, verbal communication, and written communication skills are required.
  • Strong problem-solving, analytical, design, performance, scalability, availability, and enterprise architecture capabilities are required.
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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