2 months ago
Bengaluru, IndiaStaff+
Responsibilities
- Design and build scalable Tier-1 services for order planning, fulfillment optimization, inventory allocation, and network cost management.
- Own architecture for distributed systems using gRPC service meshes, Kafka pipelines, optimization solvers, caching, and multi-region deployments.
- Write and review production Kotlin and Java code for high-volume, latency-sensitive backend systems.
- Lead design and code reviews focused on correctness, scalability, performance, reliability, and operational safety.
- Drive resilience through circuit breakers, graceful degradation, observability, incident prevention, and capacity planning.
- Partner with Product, Data Science, and Operations on fulfillment optimization, inventory, transportation, and solver improvements.
- Mentor engineers and establish reusable technical mechanisms, pipeline patterns, adapter abstractions, and feature-flag discipline.
Requirements
- Proven experience designing and operating high-scale distributed systems with strict latency and reliability requirements.
- Excellent hands-on coding ability in Kotlin or Java for backend systems at scale.
- Deep understanding of API design, concurrency, data modeling, caching, messaging, and service-to-service communication.
- Strong code review skills and the ability to identify correctness, performance, and reliability issues in complex codebases.
- Experience operating production systems with high QPS, large data volumes, or Tier-1 SLAs.
- Experience with Kafka-based event-driven architectures at scale and multi-region systems.
- Experience with resilience engineering, including circuit breakers, retries, load testing, capacity planning, and graceful degradation.
- Track record of technical leadership, architecture ownership, cross-team alignment, and mentoring senior engineers.
- Preferred experience in ecommerce, fulfillment, supply chain, logistics, inventory, order management, or planning systems.
- Preferred experience with CPLEX, OR-Tools, decision engines, constraint programming, or production systems integrated with data science.
- Preferred experience using Cursor, Copilot, Devin, or Claude Code for development and code review.
- Preferred experience with specification-driven development using OpenAPI, Swagger, Protocol Buffers, API-first design, or contract-first development.
Benefits
- Hybrid work model.
- Employment protections and legally applicable preferential treatment may apply to eligible veterans, disabled individuals, and others.
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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).