Staff Engineer - Cloud Backend Engineering

The role

This role focuses on Cloud Platform Infrastructure, Services and processes to enhance reliability, efficiency, and scalability at 10X scale. You will design and architect new systems and services leveraging cloud infrastructure and provide guidance on machine types, network designs, and deployment automation.

What you will do

• Develop self-service code and end-to-end back cloud deployment automation for application stack.
• Provide a roadmap and vision for scalable and robust growth for cloud infrastructure and platform services.
• Provide system architecture artifacts and accountability on cloud infrastructure choices.
• Serve as Cloud Engineering for Cloud infrastructure Architecture, Design and Deployment and maintenance.
• Solve complex technical problems in Public Clouds (AWS, Azure, GCP) and Private Cloud environment.
• Provide strategic partnership and improvements on network usage, role management, CDN, domains and cloud infra security.
• Analyze complex distributed production deployments and recommend ways to optimize performance or automate processes.
• Identify opportunities to make disruptive improvements in cloud infrastructure usage, operations and services.
• Exert technical influence over multiple teams.
• Collaborate with customers, stakeholders and lead engineers on key mission-critical projects.

Required qualifications

• Bachelor's degree
• 10+ years of total experience
• Strong experience on Cloud DevOps tools and coding (CI/CD, IaC, Terraform, Python, Cloud Formation, Ansible, GitHub, CircleCI, Jenkins and Infra Automation)
• Strong working experience on Kubernetes, Docker, Linux and cloud services integrations.
• 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

• Bachelor's degree and/or Master's degree in Computer Science or equivalent with 12+ Years of strong hands-on experience in cloud platform engineering
• 10+ years of hands-on experience on system engineering, Cloud DevOps and Cloud SRE
• 10+ years of hands-on experience leading system design, architecture leveraging AWS or Azure services
• 10+ years of demonstrable hands-on experience building and operating infrastructure as code (IaC)
• 10+ year’s of hands-on experience in building high-performance, highly-available and scalable distributed systems in the cloud
• 10+ year’s of hands-on experience in building and managing high-performance, highly-available and scalable Hybrid Cloud cloud environments
• Excellent cross-group collaboration, outstanding verbal and written communication
• AWS Certification Advance Architecting, Developing on AWS
• Strong hands-on experience on automating App stack deployments through IaC using Terraform, Python or Go
• 10+ years of hands-on experience as a Cloud Infra Engineering

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.