Coupang

Senior Staff Backend Engineer (Service Mesh)

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13 days ago
Delhi, IndiaStaff+

Responsibilities

  • Build Service Mesh components and critical workload and service management infrastructure.
  • Design and implement enterprise-wide fine-grained traffic control and centralized policy and configuration management.
  • Secure inter-service communication using mTLS encryption, identity-based authentication, and authorization.
  • Develop backend APIs using REST, Hibernate, Java, and Spring Boot, plus infrastructure components using Go.
  • Design scalable distributed systems supporting service discovery, load balancing, traffic resiliency, failure recovery, and observability.
  • Investigate critical system issues, address root causes, and drive engineering and operational excellence.
  • Collaborate with platform teams and technical leaders to deliver extensible large-scale services.

Requirements

  • 13+ years of professional software development experience.
  • At least four years of experience designing and developing large-scale distributed systems.
  • Experience designing and implementing traffic-management solutions for requests at scale.
  • Excellent development skills in Go, Java, and Python, with experience delivering mission-critical systems.
  • Experience with cloud computing using AWS, Azure, or GCP.
  • Preferred experience designing and implementing Service Mesh features with Istio and Envoy.
  • Deep understanding of virtual networks, route tables, subnets, gateways, modern web-application architecture, and high-performance API design patterns.
  • Ability to lead delivery of large-scale services while managing competing priorities.

Benefits

  • Hybrid, onsite, or remote work model is available.
  • Hybrid employees work at least three days per week in the office and may work from home two days per week, depending on role requirements.
  • Eligible veterans, disabled individuals, and other recipients of employment protections may receive preferential treatment where required by law.

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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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