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 system architecture artifacts.

What you will do

• Design and architect new systems and services leveraging cloud infrastructure
• Provide system architecture artifacts
• Provide accountability on cloud infrastructure choices
• Provide guidance on machine type, network designs, and deployment automation
• Provide a roadmap and vision for scalable and robust growth for cloud infrastructure and platform services
• Serve as Cloud Engineering for Cloud infrastructure Architecture, Design and Deployment and maintenance
• Solve complex technical problems in Public Clouds and Private Cloud environment
• Analyze complex distributed production deployments and recommend optimizations
• Identify opportunities for disruptive improvements in cloud infrastructure usage and services
• Exert technical influence over multiple teams

Required qualifications

• Bachelor's degree
• 10+ 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
• 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

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

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.