Coupang

Senior Staff Backend Engineer - Cloud Infrastructure

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3 months ago

Base Salary

$174k - $299k/yr

Responsibilities

  • Design and architect cloud infrastructure and platform services that improve reliability, availability, scalability, performance, efficiency, and system quality at 10X scale.
  • Create architecture artifacts and guide cloud infrastructure choices, machine types, network designs, deployment automation, and platform processes.
  • Build self-service code and end-to-end backend cloud deployment automation for application stacks.
  • Provide a roadmap and vision for cloud infrastructure and platform services supporting 99.999% availability.
  • Analyze shared platforms, web services, APIs, underlying data, and distributed production deployments to recommend infrastructure and network improvements.
  • Design, deploy, maintain, and optimize highly reliable and scalable applications across public, private, and hybrid cloud environments.
  • Improve operational excellence through automation, continuous integration servers, monitoring, testing, and performance optimization.
  • Provide strategic guidance on network usage, role management, CDN, domains, and cloud infrastructure security.
  • Identify disruptive improvements in cloud infrastructure operations and services through systematic automation.
  • Exert technical influence across multiple teams and collaborate with customers, stakeholders, and lead engineers on mission-critical projects.

Requirements

  • Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science and 7+ years of total experience; a master’s degree or equivalent experience is also accepted.
  • Preferred experience includes 10–15+ years in cloud platform engineering, system engineering, Cloud DevOps, Cloud SRE, infrastructure as code, or distributed systems.
  • At least 7 years of experience leading system design and architecture using AWS or Azure services is preferred.
  • At least 7 years of experience building and managing high-performance, highly available, scalable hybrid cloud environments is preferred.
  • Hands-on experience with Terraform, Python or Go, Kubernetes, Docker, Linux, and cloud deployment automation is required or strongly preferred.
  • AWS certifications in Advanced Architecting or Developing on AWS are preferred.
  • Team leadership experience and strong cross-group collaboration, verbal communication, and written communication skills are preferred.
  • Candidates should be able to solve complex problems, work creatively with partner teams, and pursue challenging targets.

Benefits

  • Medical, dental, vision, life, and AD&D insurance
  • Flexible Spending Accounts and Health Savings Account
  • Short-term and long-term disability coverage
  • Employee Assistance Program
  • 401(k) plan with company match
  • 18–21 days of paid time off annually based on tenure
  • 12 paid holidays
  • Up to 6 weeks of paid parental leave
  • Pre-tax commuter benefits
  • Free electric car charging station
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About Coupang

10,000+ employees

Coupang is a technology and Fortune 150 company listed on the New York Stock Exchange (NYSE: CPNG) that provides retail, restaurant delivery, video streaming, and fintech services to customers around the world under brands that include Coupang, Eats, Play, Rocket Now, and Farfetch.

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