Staff Engineer - Backend
Staff Engineer - Backend
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AbouttheCompany:
At Coupang we are building the future of ecommerce. Born out of an obsession to make shopping eating and living easier than ever were collectively disrupting the multibilliondollar ecommerce industry from the ground up. We exist to wow our customers. We know were doing the right thing when we hear our customers say How did we ever live without Coupang We are one of the fastestgrowing ecommerce companies that established an unparalleled reputation for being a dominant and reliable force in South Korean commerce.
The Gateway Services team builds Coupangs infrastructure layer for servicetoservice communication in a distributed microservices architecture including discovery load balancing failure recovery metrics and monitoring. They develop finegrained traffic control with routing rules retries failovers and fault injection and manage the policy layer using a management plane. The team also handles a pluggable policy layer and configuration API for access controls rate limits and quotas securing communication with TLS encryption and strong identitybased authentication and authorization.
We seek a Staff Engineer with a deep understanding of security in distributed systems and handson experience with Identity providers Kubernetes gRPC and service mesh. You will design the architecture and lead the team to deliver a modern platform powering all Coupangs internal services.
What You Will Do :
- Gatherrequirementsdesignandbuildfeaturestoenhanceapplicationtrafficroutingformultipleplatformteams.
- WorkcloselywithCoupangsdomainteamstoimplementsimplesolutionsforcomplexinfrastructureproblemsensuringscalabilityreliabilityandefficiency.
- LeadfullstackdevelopmentprojectsusingIstioEnvoyJAVAAWSKafkaKubernetesgRPCandservicemesh.
- TakeownershipofIdentityandAccessplatformsiteratingrapidlyandcollaboratingwithasmalltalentedteam.
- WritebackendAPIsusingREST/GraphQL/HibernatewithSpringbootandPythonframeworks.
- Architectworkloadandservicemanagementinfrastructuredevelopingcriticalinfrastructurecomponents.
- DecomposecomplexproblemsintosimplesolutionsprioritizeruthlesslyandcollaboratewithCoupangtechleaderstoenhanceserviceextensibilityandinnovation.
BasicQualifications:
- 12yearsofprofessionalsoftwaredevelopmentexperienceincluding2yearsasaprojecttechlead.
- Experiencewithconfiguringandmaintainingservicemeshtohandlerequestsatscaleandhandsonexperienceindesigninganddevelopinglargescaledistributedsystemsinthelast3years.
- FluencyinoneormoreofCJavaandGowithaproventrackrecordofdeliveringmissioncriticalsystems.
- ExperiencewithcloudcomputingusingAWSAzureorGCP.
PreferredQualifications:
- StrongexperienceinIstiofeatures(ratelimitingauthenticationauthorizationloadbalancingthrottlingrouting)andconfiguringIstiocontrolandmanagementplanesandIngressgateway.
- Deepunderstandingofnetworkcomponents(virtualnetworksroutetablessubnetsgateways)andmodernwebapplicationarchitectureAPIdesignperformanceandscalability.
- Experienceintrafficmanagement(requestroutingtimeoutscircuitbreakingmirroringfaultinjection).
- ExperienceinCI/CDpipelinesYAMLAWScloudKubernetesgRPCandGolanguage.
- ExperienceinconcurrencymultithreadingsynchronizationnonblockingIOanratingsystemkernels.
- Deepunderstandingofdistributedsystems(KafkaCassandraGoogleSpanner).
EqualOpportunitiesforAll
Coupangisanequalopportunityemployer.Ourunprecedentedsuccesscouldnotbepossiblewithoutthevaluableinputsofourgloballydiverseteam.
Required Experience:
Staff IC
Employment Type
Full-Time
