Senior Staff Backend Engineer - (K8)

The role

You will partner with platform leaders to define and implement solutions for complex infrastructure problems. You will build a scalable, reliable, and efficient platform and technically guide full stack development teams.

What you will do

• Architect workload and service management infrastructure.
• Hands-on develop critical infrastructure components.
• Decompose complex problems into simple, straightforward solutions.
• Envision roadmaps for the scalable and robust growth of application infrastructure.
• Align with stakeholders and develop strong developers.
• Provide technical guidance to engineers on critical projects.
• Demonstrate excellence resulting in scalable systems and services.
• Dive deep into critical system issues and address root causes.
• Collaborate with other tech leaders to make the service extensible.

Required qualifications

• 12+ years of professional software development experience.
• Hands-on experience designing and developing large-scale distributed systems within the last 3 years.
• Fluent in one or more of Java, Go or Python.
• Experience with Amazon EKS
• Proven track record of delivering mission-critical systems.
• Experience developing and growing senior individual contributors globally.
• Experience with cloud computing using AWS, Azure, or GCP.
• Experience with machine learning job deployment infrastructure such as Argo CD workflows.

Nice to have

• Hands on experience with Kubernetes and gRPC.
• Deep understanding of operating system kernels and distributed systems such as Kafka, Cassandra, and MongoDB.
• Proficiency with ML infrastructure and deployment frameworks such as TensorFlow, PyTorch, TensorRT, and Triton Backend.

About the company

Coupang is an e-commerce company that aims to make shopping, eating, and living easier. It is one of the fastest-growing e-commerce companies and a dominant force in South Korean commerce.