Coupang

Senior Staff Backend Engineer - Cloud Infrastructure

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1 day ago
Mountain View, CA, USAStaff+
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Base Salary

$174k - $299k/yr

Responsibilities

  • Design and architect scalable cloud infrastructure, platform services, and deployment systems for 10X improvements in reliability, availability, performance, and efficiency.
  • Develop self-service code and end-to-end deployment automation for application stacks using infrastructure-as-code and cloud automation tools.
  • Provide the roadmap and technical vision for robust cloud infrastructure and platform growth supporting 99.999% availability.
  • Analyze distributed production deployments and improve performance, monitoring, testing, continuous integration, network usage, role management, CDN, domains, and cloud security.
  • Build and operate reliable, scalable public-cloud, private-cloud, and hybrid-cloud environments.
  • Provide technical influence and strategic partnership across multiple engineering teams, stakeholders, customers, and lead engineers.
  • Solve complex cloud infrastructure and systems problems while improving operational excellence and engineering productivity.

Requirements

  • Bachelor's degree in Computer Science and 7+ years of total experience are required.
  • Preferred qualifications include a bachelor's or master's degree in Computer Science or equivalent and 15+ years of hands-on cloud platform engineering experience.
  • At least 10 years of experience in system engineering, Cloud DevOps, Cloud SRE, infrastructure-as-code, or cloud infrastructure engineering is preferred.
  • At least 7 years of experience leading system design and architecture using AWS or Azure services is preferred.
  • At least 10 years of experience building high-performance, highly available, scalable distributed systems and managing infrastructure-as-code is preferred.
  • At least 7 years of experience building and managing high-performance hybrid-cloud environments is preferred.
  • Strong hands-on experience with Terraform, Python or Go, Kubernetes, Docker, Linux, AWS, Azure, GCP, and cloud deployment automation is preferred.
  • AWS certifications, team-leading experience, strong analytical and problem-solving skills, and excellent cross-group communication are preferred.

Benefits

  • Medical, dental, vision, life, AD&D, disability, flexible spending, health savings, and employee assistance program benefits.
  • 401(k) plan with company match, 18–21 days of paid time off based on tenure, 12 paid holidays, and up to six weeks of paid parental leave.
  • Pre-tax commuter benefits and a free electric car charging station.
  • The base pay range is $174,000/year to $299,000/year, with an annual bonus opportunity of 0–20% of base salary.
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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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