Coupang

Staff, Back-end engineer

Coupang
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Base Salary

$164k - $282k/yr

Responsibilities

  • Design and build large-scale, multi-tiered, distributed backend services for the fulfillment platform.
  • Benchmark the platform, collect metrics, and publish performance results.
  • Measure and maintain platform reliability and uptime against a 99.995% guarantee.
  • Estimate capacity and provision clusters for different customer workloads.
  • Manage production monitoring, alerting, incident investigation, and operational excellence.
  • Analyze open-source platform components and code to resolve critical system issues and prevent recurring root causes.
  • Collaborate with other teams to make the platform open, extensible, and supportive of future innovations.
  • Coach and lead high-performing software engineers and coordinate with end users and technical and business teams.

Requirements

  • At least 10 years of experience working directly within engineering teams in a fast-moving environment.
  • At least 10 years of experience developing and operating backend services and web applications.
  • Experience delivering complex, high-performance, highly available distributed software systems to customers.
  • Extensive experience managing mission-critical, high-throughput, low-latency services.
  • Strong experience developing with Java and the Spring Framework in an AWS environment.
  • Exposure to SQL or NoSQL database systems such as Cassandra or MySQL.
  • Bachelor’s degree and at least 7 years of total experience.
  • Knowledge of software development lifecycle practices including coding standards, code reviews, build processes, testing, and live-site operations.
  • Demonstrated ability to lead, communicate, solve problems creatively, and collaborate across functions.

Benefits

  • Medical, dental, vision, life, and AD&D insurance.
  • Flexible Spending Accounts and Health Savings Account.
  • Long-term and short-term disability coverage and an Employee Assistance Program.
  • 401(k) plan with company match.
  • 18–21 days of paid time off annually based on tenure and 12 paid holidays.
  • Up to six weeks of paid parental leave.
  • Pre-tax commuter benefits and free electric car charging station access.
  • Annual bonus opportunity of 0–20% of base salary.

Tech Stack

Apache CassandraAWSJavaMySQLSQL

Categories

Coupang

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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