Coupang

Senior Staff Backend Engineer - Cloud Infrastructure

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13 days ago
Mountain View, CA, USAStaff+
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Base Salary

$174k - $299k/yr

Responsibilities

  • Design and architect scalable, reliable cloud infrastructure, platform services, and system architectures for 10X growth.
  • Build self-service deployment automation and infrastructure-as-code solutions for application stacks.
  • Develop roadmaps and vision for cloud infrastructure and platform services targeting 99.999% availability.
  • Provide network, infrastructure, machine-type, deployment, role-management, CDN, domain, and cloud-security recommendations.
  • Operate and optimize distributed production deployments across public, private, and hybrid cloud environments.
  • Improve operational excellence, performance, scalability, reliability, system quality, and automation.
  • Manage continuous integration servers and use monitoring and testing tools to optimize cloud operations.
  • Influence multiple engineering teams through technical guidance, architecture artifacts, and knowledge sharing.
  • Collaborate with customers, stakeholders, engineering leaders, and lead engineers on mission-critical projects.

Requirements

  • Bachelor's degree in Computer Science and 7+ years of total experience.
  • 15+ years of hands-on experience in cloud platform engineering, or equivalent experience with the stated degree requirement.
  • 10+ years of experience in system engineering, Cloud DevOps, or Cloud SRE.
  • 7+ years of experience leading system design and architecture using AWS or Azure services.
  • 10+ years of experience building and operating infrastructure as code and scalable distributed systems in the cloud.
  • 7+ years of experience building and managing high-performance, highly available hybrid-cloud environments.
  • Strong hands-on experience with Terraform, Python or Go, and automated application-stack deployments.
  • Strong experience with Kubernetes, Docker, Linux, public-cloud services, infrastructure automation, and cloud platform engineering.
  • AWS Advanced Architecting or Developing on AWS certification is preferred.
  • Team leadership experience and excellent cross-group collaboration, verbal communication, and written communication skills.

Benefits

  • Base pay ranges from $174,000 to $299,000 per year, with an annual bonus opportunity of 0–20% of base salary.
  • Medical, dental, vision, life, and AD&D insurance; flexible spending and health savings accounts; disability coverage; and an employee assistance program.
  • 401(k) plan with company match, 18–21 days of paid time off based on tenure, 12 paid holidays, and up to six weeks of paid parental leave.
  • Pre-tax commuter benefits and free electric car charging stations are available.
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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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