Coupang

Staff, Back-end engineer (Inventory Platform)

Coupang
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6 days ago

Base Salary

$164k - $282k/yr

Responsibilities

  • Design and build scalable, multi-tiered distributed services for the Inventory Platform.
  • Benchmark the platform, collect metrics, and publish performance results.
  • Measure and ensure platform reliability and uptime against a 99.995% guarantee.
  • Estimate capacity and provision clusters for different customer workloads.
  • Own production monitoring and alerting for the platform.
  • Analyze open-source platform components and code, investigate critical system issues, and address root causes.
  • Collaborate with other teams to make the platform open and extensible.
  • Coach and lead software engineers while supporting cross-functional technical and business collaboration.

Requirements

  • Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Electrical Engineering, Math, or a closely related field.
  • At least 8 years of backend software development experience.
  • Experience working in cloud environments, particularly AWS.
  • Demonstrated experience building and maintaining highly available, distributed systems.
  • Preferred experience developing and operating backend services and web applications.
  • Preferred strong familiarity with Java and Spring Framework in an AWS environment.
  • Preferred experience managing mission-critical, high-throughput, low-latency services.
  • Preferred leadership experience coaching and motivating high-performing software engineers.
  • Preferred knowledge of software development practices including coding standards, code reviews, build processes, testing, and live site operations.

Benefits

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

Tech Stack

Apache CassandraAWSJavaMySQL

Categories

Coupang

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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