Senior Staff Backend Engineer (Service Mesh)

The role

You will design architecture and drive the team to deliver a modern platform powering Coupang's services. You will build Service Mesh components and design back-end APIs and infrastructure components.

What you will do

• Develop and implement enterprise-wide fine-grained traffic control.
• Use a centralized management plane for managing policies and configurations.
• Secure inter-service communication with mTLS encryption, identity-based authentication, and authorization.
• Build Service Mesh components collaborating actively within a tightly knit talented team.
• Design and implement back-end APIs using REST/Hibernate using Java SpringBoot and infrastructure components using Go.
• Architect workload and service management infrastructure by designing and developing critical infrastructure components.
• Decompose complex problems into simple, straightforward solutions.
• 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.
• Collaborate with other Coupang technical leaders to make the service extensible.

Required qualifications

• 13+ years of professional software development experience
• Experience in designing and implementing traffic management solutions to handle requests at scale.
• Hands-on experience in designing and developing large scale distributed systems for at least the past 4 years.
• Excellent development skills in Go/Java/Python with a proven track record of delivering mission critical systems.
• Experience with cloud computing using AWS or Azure or GCP.

Nice to have

• Strong experience in designing and implementing Service Mesh (Istio/Envoy) features.
• Deep understanding of network components (virtual networks, route tables, subnets, and gateways).
• Deep understanding of modern web applications design architecture and API design patterns with high performance and scale.
• Ability to handle multiple competing priorities in a fast-paced environment and lead the delivery of large-scale services for complex business offerings.

About the company

Coupang is an e-commerce company that aims to make shopping, eating, and living easier. It has a startup culture with the resources of a large global public company.