3 days ago
Singapore (city not specified)Staff+
Responsibilities
- Own the multi-year technical strategy and architecture roadmap for the Advertising platform, including video ads, interactive and shoppable ads, ad serving, and tracking.
- Architect, develop, and optimize ultra-low-latency backend systems for ad delivery, real-time impression tracking, and monetization workflows at massive scale.
- Drive cross-team technical solutions for high-concurrency commercial scenarios, including real-time ad insertion during peak live sports broadcasts.
- Provide technical leadership through architecture reviews, mentoring, and improvements to code quality, system reliability, and operational excellence.
- Partner with Product, Ad Operations, Finance, Legal, and client engineering stakeholders to build resilient and compliant technical architectures.
- Use AI to automate tasks and improve engineering productivity, code quality, and delivery velocity.
Requirements
- Bachelor's degree or equivalent practical experience and 8+ years of large-scale backend application and distributed systems engineering experience.
- Proven experience architecting, scaling, and operating mission-critical, low-latency, high-throughput distributed systems.
- Deep expertise in one or more backend programming languages: Go, Java, JavaScript, or Node.js.
- Extensive production experience with modern cloud infrastructure and distributed storage or streaming technologies such as AWS, GCP, Kafka, Redis, and microservices.
- Experience driving complex cross-functional projects from ambiguity to production and mentoring engineers.
- Strong verbal and written communication skills for influencing technical and business stakeholders.
- Preferred: master's or Ph.D. in Computer Science or a related technical field.
- Preferred: production experience with large-scale ad-tech systems such as video ad serving, SSAI, CSAI, VAST, VMAP, real-time bidding, impression or click tracking, and programmatic advertising.
- Preferred: experience architecting e-commerce or monetization systems such as payment gateways, billing or subscriptions, promotion engines, or high-concurrency ticketing platforms.
- Preferred: experience partnering with iOS, Android, and Smart TV engineering leads on client-to-server and Ad SDK architectures.
- Preferred: professional English communication skills.
Benefits
- Full-time regular position.
- Includes a 12-week probation period, which may be skipped, shortened, or extended based on business needs.
- Recruitment process includes application review, job fit interview, focus interview, and offer.
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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).