Staff, Back-end engineer

The role

This engineer will design and build large-scale, multi-tiered, distributed services for the Fulfillment Platform. The role involves ensuring platform reliability, capacity estimation, and monitoring production incidents.

What you will do

• Demonstrate excellence resulting in scalable systems and services with the highest quality architecture and design.
• Benchmark the Platform, collect metrics and publish results.
• Measure and ensure reliability and uptime of the Platform with 99.995% guarantees.
• Perform capacity estimation and provisioning of cluster for different customer workloads.
• Handle production incident Monitoring and Alerting for the Platform.
• Analyze OSS Platform components and code.
• Dive deep into critical system issues and address root causes.
• Collaborate with other teams to make the platform open and extensible.

Required qualifications

• 10+ years of experience working directly within engineering teams in a fast-moving environment.
• 10+ years of experience in developing and operating backend services and web applications.
• Experience building complex, high-performance, and highly available distributed software systems.
• Strong familiarity developing with Java and Spring Framework.
• Experience in an AWS environment.
• Extensive experience in managing mission critical services with high throughput and low latency.
• Bachelor’s degree and 7+ years of total experience.
• Ability to solve problems through creative thinking and partnerships with other teams.
• Ability to attain challenging targets through goal-setting and personal drive.

Nice to have

• Solid engineering skills as a lead engineer to coach and lead high performing software engineers.
• Excellent communication skills to shepherd communication with end users, technical and business teams.
• Knowledge of Agile software engineering practices and patterns.
• Demonstrated leadership in cross-functional, highly collaborative environment.

Before you apply

• Complete the attached Internal Transfer Request Form and submit.
• Apply with your Coupang e-mail address.

About the company

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