Coupang

Staff, Back-end engineer

Coupang
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2 months ago

Base Salary

$162k - $220k/yr

Responsibilities

  • Design, build, deploy, and maintain the core Workflow Platform infrastructure, including Temporal, Netflix Conductor, and other distributed workflow orchestration systems.
  • Architect and deliver scalable, resilient, high-performance platform services and distributed backend systems.
  • Benchmark, measure, and optimize platform performance, reliability, throughput, and latency.
  • Ensure platform availability through observability, monitoring, alerting, incident management, and 99.995% uptime objectives.
  • Estimate, provision, and scale infrastructure capacity while optimizing performance and cost efficiency.
  • Develop and operate mission-critical backend services in AWS using Java and Spring Framework.
  • Investigate complex system issues, identify root causes, implement preventive measures, and improve operational excellence.
  • Collaborate with engineering teams and stakeholders to gather requirements and deliver extensible platform capabilities.
  • Lead, coach, and develop software engineers, and guide technical design, architecture, implementation, and delivery.

Requirements

  • Bachelor’s degree and 7+ years of total experience.
  • Experience designing, building, deploying, and maintaining distributed workflow-platform infrastructure.
  • Experience developing and operating backend services and distributed systems in AWS using Java and Spring Framework.
  • Ability to architect highly scalable, resilient, and high-performance services.
  • Experience with performance benchmarking, observability, monitoring, alerting, incident management, and capacity planning.
  • Ability to investigate complex technical issues, determine root causes, and implement preventive solutions.
  • Preferred experience leading, coaching, and developing software engineers.
  • Preferred ability to collaborate with end users, business stakeholders, and technical teams to deliver business-focused solutions.
  • Preferred experience driving architecture discussions and guiding teams through implementation and delivery.
  • Preferred familiarity with coding standards, code reviews, testing, CI/CD processes, Agile software engineering practices, and live-site operations.

Benefits

  • Medical, dental, vision, life, AD&D, disability, flexible spending account, and health savings account benefits.
  • Employee Assistance Program and 401(k) plan with company match.
  • 18–21 days of paid time off annually based on tenure and 12 paid holidays.
  • Paid parental leave and pre-tax commuter benefits.
  • Free electric car charging station.
  • Base pay varies by US geographic market from $162,000 to $220,000 per year.

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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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