L7-2 Sr,Staff Back-end Engineer II

Job Description Summary

The CIC - Software Engineering team is responsible for Coupang's on-prem and cloud infrastructure for Coupang's internal workload management and microservice ecosystem which scales thousands of microservices. We are in the process of revolutionizing our developer experiences and internal infrastructure by adopting the best technologies available.

We are looking for an architect who has deep understanding of distributed systems, hands-on experience in large scale backend services, Kubernetes, Golang and Java based micro services. You will be responsible for designing the architecture and lead the team to deliver a modern platform that powers all Coupang's internal services and ML platform.

What You Will Do

As a Staff Back-end Engineer, you will be a partner with leaders of multiple platform teams. You will work closely with the product team to define and implement simple solutions to complex infrastructure problems while ensuring you to build a highly scalable, reliable and efficient platform for our customers. You will technically guide teams working on full stack development teams using JAVA, AWS, Kafka, Kubernetes, Kubeflow, Argo CD and gRPC. You will be accountable for hiring and developing technical leaders and top talent, raising the bar on engineering and operational excellence.

In this role, you will:

• Architect workload and service management infrastructure.  
• Hands-on develop critical infrastructure components. 
• Decompose complex problems into simple, straightforward solutions, providing mechanisms for the teams to prioritize ruthlessly and "move with urgency".
• Envision roadmaps for the scalable and robust growth of Coupang's growing Application infrastructure.
• Align with stakeholders, develop strong developers and provide technical guidance to engineers on critical projects to resolve complex business problems.
• Demonstrate excellence resulting in scalable systems and services with the highest quality architecture and design.
• Dive deep into critical system issues, proactively addressing similar root causes, and raise the bar on Operational Excellence.
• Collaborate with other Coupang tech leaders to make the service extensible to unlock opportunities for innovations.

Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree in computer science or related technical fields. 
• 8+ years professional software development experience, 
• Hands-on experience in designing and developing large scale distributed system in the last 3 years. 
• One who is fluent in one or more among Java, Go and Python. 
• Proven track record of delivering mission critical systems.
• Experience developing and growing senior individual contributors globally.
• Experience with cloud computing using AWS or Azure or GCP.
• Experienced in Machine learning job deployment infrastructure like Ardo CD workflow.

Preferred Qualifications 

• Experience in Kubernetes, gRPC. 
• 12+ years professional software development experience, 
• Experience in concurrency, multi-threading, synchronization, and non-blocking IO. 
• Deep understing of operating system kernel and distributed system such as Kafka, Cassandra and Mongo DB.
• Proficient in some of the ML infrastructure and deployment frameworks like: TensorFlow, PyTorch, TensorRT, Triton backend etc.
• Ability to handle multiple competing priorities in a fast-paced environment and leading the delivery of large-scale services for complex business offerings.
• Ability to influence cross functional stakeholders, prioritize ruthlessly, Aim High and Find a Way to deliver results with grit.
• Capable of or is fluent in English communication.  
• Master or PhD degree in computer science or other related technical fields.

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Coupang is an equal opportunity employer and is committed to equal opportunity regardless of color, ancestry, religion, sex, nation origin, sexual orientation, age, citizenship, marital status, disability, gender identity or veteran status. Our unprecedented success could not be possible without the valuable inputs of our globally diverse team.