Senior Staff Software Engineer - AI SW

Coupang is reimagining the shopping experience with the goal of wowing each customer from the instant they open the Coupang app to the moment an order is delivered to their door. Powered by an outstanding endtoend ecommerce and logistics network and a fanatical culture of customer centricity Coupang has broken tradeoffs around speed selection and price. Today we provide exceedingly fast shipping speeds on millions of items including fresh groceries delivered within hours nationwide 365 days a year. We are doing this for millions of consumers in Korea. Korea is home to one of the largest and fastest growing ecommerce opportunities anywhere in the world.

Coupang has been added into the 2023 fortune 500 list a ranking U.Sbased companies by revenue. We have been named as one of the 50 Smartest Companies in the World by MIT Technology Review and as one of Forbes magazines 30 Global Game Changers. In 2020 we placed second on CNBCs Disruptor 50 list.

Job Overview:

TheTSE Software Engineering team is responsible Coupangs onprem and cloud infrastructure for Coupangs internal workload management and microservice ecosystem which scales to thousands of microservices. We are in a process to revolutionize our developer experiences and internal infrastructure by adopting the best technologies available.

We are looking for an architect who has deep understanding of distributed system handson experiences in large scale backend services Kubernetes Golang and Java based micro services.

You will be responsible to design the architecture and lead the team to deliver a modern platform that powers all Coupangs internal services and ML platform.

What You Will Do

As a Senior Staff Software Engineer you will partner with leaders of multiple platform teams. You will work closely with the product team to define and implement simple solutions of complex infrastructure problems while ensuring to build a highly scalable reliable and efficient platform for our customers. You will technically guide teams working on full stack development teams using Golang Java AWS Kafka Kubernetes Kubeflow Argo CD and gRPC.

You will be accountable for hiring and developing technical leaders and top talent raising the bar on engineering and operational excellence.

In this role you will:

• Architect workload and service management infrastructure.
• Handson develop critical infrastructure components.
• Decompose complex problems into simple straightforward solutions providing mechanisms for the teams to prioritize ruthlessly and move with urgency.
• Envision roadmaps for the scalable and robust growth of Coupangs growing Application infrastructure.
• Align with stakeholders develop strong developers and provide technical guidance to engineers on critical projects to resolve complex business problems.
• Demonstrate excellence resulting in scalable systems and services with the highest quality architecture and design.
• Dive deep into critical system issues proactively addressing similar root causes and raise the bar on Operational Excellence.
• Collaborate with other Coupang tech leaders to make the service extensible to unlock opportunities for innovations.

Qualifications :

• At least 13 years of professional software development experience.
• 4 years of experience as a project tech lead.
• Handson experience in designing and developing large scale distributed system.
• One who is fluent in one or more among Golang and Java.
• Proven track record of delivering mission critical systems.
• Experience developing and growing senior individual contributors globally.
• Experience with cloud computing using AWS or Azure or GCP.
• Experienced in Machine learning job deployment infrastructure like Argo CD workflow.

Preferred Qualifications

• Experience in Kubernetes gRPC.
• Experience in concurrency multithreading synchronization and nonblocking IO.
• Deep understanding of operating system kernel and distributed system such as Kafka Cassandra and Mongo DB.
• Proficient in some of the ML infrastructure and deployment frameworks like: TensorFlow PyTorch TensorRT Triton backend etc.
• Ability to handle multiple competing priorities in a fastpaced environment and leading the delivery of largescale services for complex business offerings.
• Ability to influence cross functional stakeholders prioritize ruthlessly Aim High and Find a Way to deliver results with grit.

Required Experience:

Staff IC