1 day ago
Seoul, Korea, SouthStaff+
Responsibilities
- Design and implement security architectures for enterprise platforms, services, and large-scale distributed systems.
- Partner with software engineering, infrastructure, and platform teams to integrate security requirements into system design and development.
- Develop solutions for IAM, authentication, authorization, credential management, cryptography, and data protection.
- Design and improve authentication and authorization services using OAuth 2.0, OpenID Connect, and federation technologies.
- Build and automate scalable security controls, tooling, and services using software engineering practices.
- Review system architectures and provide security guidance throughout the software development lifecycle.
- Contribute to enterprise IAM platforms, access-control frameworks, and credential-management systems.
- Establish security best practices for secure design, cryptography, secrets management, and access governance.
- Identify security gaps, evaluate technical risks, and recommend practical scalable solutions.
- Develop prototypes, proof-of-concepts, and security automation solutions primarily using Python.
- Collaborate with stakeholders to improve Coupang’s security posture and operational maturity.
Requirements
- Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Computer Engineering, Cybersecurity, or a related technical field.
- 10+ years of experience in security engineering, security architecture, platform engineering, software engineering, or related technical disciplines.
- Strong expertise in one or more areas including IAM, authentication and authorization, OAuth 2.0, OpenID Connect, federation, applied cryptography, key management, credential and secrets management, PKI, or security policy and access-control frameworks.
- Strong understanding of secure architecture principles for cloud-native and distributed systems.
- Hands-on software development experience with Python and security automation.
- Experience designing, implementing, or supporting enterprise security platforms and services.
- Ability to analyze complex technical problems and deliver practical, scalable solutions.
- Strong written and verbal communication and cross-functional collaboration skills.
- Preferred experience with enterprise-scale IAM, identity governance, access management, or Zero Trust solutions.
- Preferred experience designing security architectures for AWS, GCP, or Azure cloud environments.
- Preferred knowledge of secrets management, credential lifecycle management, and privileged access management.
- Preferred experience with PKI design, certificate management, cryptographic service platforms, security platforms, internal developer tooling, or security automation frameworks.
- Preferred understanding of threat modeling, security monitoring, intrusion detection, or incident response.
- Preferred experience in large-scale technology companies or rapidly growing engineering organizations.
- Industry certifications such as CISSP, CCSP, ISSAP, SABSA, TOGAF, or equivalent are preferred.
- Preferred experience contributing to security standards, architectural reviews, or security-by-design initiatives.
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About Coupang
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).