Coupang

Senior Staff Backend Engineer - Cloud Infrastructure

Coupang$174K — $299K *
Enterprise Technology
5 - 7 years of experience
Job Overview by Ladders

Qualifications

  • Bachelor's or Master's degree in Computer Science or equivalent.
  • 15+ years of hands-on experience in cloud platform engineering.
  • 10+ years of hands-on experience in system engineering and Cloud DevOps.
  • 7+ years of system design and architecture experience using AWS or Azure.
  • 10+ years of experience building scalable distributed systems in the cloud.

Responsibilities

  • Enhance cloud infrastructure reliability and efficiency at 10X scale.
  • Collaborate with engineering teams to design scalable architectures.
  • Provide architectural guidance for machine types and network design.
  • Analyze and recommend improvements to cloud infrastructure performance.
  • Automate application stack deployment end-to-end with code development.
  • Accountable for creating reliable and scalable cloud architecture.
  • Identify and implement opportunities for efficiency in cloud operations.

Benefits

  • Medical/Dental/Vision/Life insurance and AD&D coverage.
  • Flexible Spending Accounts (FSA) and Health Savings Account (HSA).
  • 401K Plan with Company Match.
  • 18-21 days Paid Time Off (PTO) annually based on tenure.
  • Up to 6 weeks of Paid Parental leave.
Full Job Description
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Job Overview:

As a Senior Staff Backend Engineer - Cloud Infrastructure, this role will focus on Cloud Platform Infrastructure, Services and processes at its best to enhance Cloud infrastructure reliability & system efficiencies, productivity, availability, scalability and system quality at 10X scale. This role will be responsible for diving deep into business problems, understanding current customer pain points, system domain, current Platform limitations (if exists) and then work closely with engineering teams / leaders to design and architect new system / services leveraging cloud infrastructure that can scale 10X better in terms of reliability, availability performance and efficiency. This includes providing system architecture artifacts, accountability on cloud infrastructure choices that can perform and scale at 10X level but are still efficient, guidance on using right machine type, network designs, deployment automation etc . You will be part of a Global team working from different locations but still works as a central connected unit.

Key Skills and Role Responsibilities:
  • Strong experience on Cloud DevOps tools and coding (CI/CD, IaC, Terraform, Python, Cloud Formation, Ansible, GitHub, CircleCI, Jenkins and Infra Automation)
  • Self-service code development and end-to-end back cloud deployment automation for application stack.
  • Provide a roadmap and vision for scalable and robust growth for your cloud infrastructure and platform services to enable achieving 99.999% availability.
  • Strong technical analytical & design capability to understand common & shared platforms, web, & services API with underlying data to provide appropriate network, infrastructure recommendations
  • Strong working experience on Kubernetes, Docker, Linux and cloud services integrations.
  • 100% accountable for the reliable, scalable and optimized cloud architecture, design and platform services.
  • Serve as Cloud Engineering for Cloud infrastructure Architecture, Design and Deployment and maintenance for highly reliable and scalable applications.
  • Solves complex technical problems in Public Clouds (AWS, Azure, GCP) and Private Cloud environment and improves Operational Excellence.
  • Strong ability to dive deep to understand current cloud infra and systems architecture to 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 and/or automate processes by managing continuous integration servers, utilizing monitoring and testing tools.
  • Identify opportunities to make disruptive improvements in cloud infrastructure usage, operations and services with high degree of systematic automation.
  • Possess expert knowledge in performance (sub millisecond latencies), scalability, availability (99.999% uptime), enterprise architecture best practices
  • Exert technical influence over multiple teams, increasing their productivity and effectiveness by sharing your deep knowledge and experience.
  • Strong problem-solving skills, analytical capabilities, and attention to details
  • Provide a roadmap and vision for scalable and robust growth for cloud infrastructure and platform services
  • Collaborate with customers, stakeholders and lead engineers on key mission-critical projects

Preferred Qualifications:
  • Bachelor's degree and/or Master's degree in Computer Science or equivalent with 15+ Years of strong hands-on experience in cloud platform engineering.
  • 10+ years of hands-on experience on system engineering, Cloud DevOps and Cloud SRE
  • 7+ 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). Comfortable with many flavors of Linux
  • 10+ year's of hands-on experience in building high-performance, highly-available and scalable distributed systems in the cloud.
  • 7+ 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
  • Team leading experience
  • Excellent cross-group collaboration and communication skills

Basic Qualifications:
  • 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

Pay & Benefits

Our compensation reflects the cost of living across several US geographic markets. At Coupang, your base pay is one part of your total compensation.

The base pay for this position ranges from $174,000/year to $299,000/year. Pay is based on several factors including market location and may vary depending on job-related knowledge, skills, and experience. Annual bonus is 0-20% of the base salary.

General Description of All Benefits
  • Medical/Dental/Vision/Life, AD&D insurance
  • Flexible Spending Accounts (FSA) & Health Savings Account (HSA)
  • Long-term/Short-term Disability
  • Employee Assistance Program (EAP) program
  • 401K Plan with Company Match
  • 18-21 days of the Paid Time Off (PTO) a year based on the tenure
  • 12 Paid Holidays
  • up to 6 weeks of Paid Parental leave
  • Pre-tax commuter benefits
  • MTV - [Free] Electric Car Charging Station

General Description of Other Compensation

"Other Compensation" includes, but is not limited to, bonuses, equity, or other forms of compensation that would be offered to the hired applicant in addition to their established salary range or wage scale.

Privacy Notice
  • Your personal information will be collected and managed by Coupang as stated in the Application Privacy Notice located below: https://www.coupang.jobs/privacy-policy/

Job Requisition ID: 8784

About Coupang

Coupang is a South Korean e-commerce company based in Seoul, South Korea, and incorporated in Delaware, United States. Founded in 2010 by Bom Kim, the company expanded to become the largest online marketplace in South Korea. Its expansion led the company to the video streaming distribution after the launch of the service Coupang Play. Coupang is often referred to as the "Amazon of South Korea", due its position and corporate size in South Korean online market.

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