Sr. Staff Engineer Supply Chain Optimization

We exist to wow our customers. We know were doing the right thing when we hear our customers say How did I ever live without Coupang Born out of an obsession to make shopping eating and living easier than ever were collectively disrupting the multibilliondollar commerce industry from the ground up. We are one of the fastestgrowing retail companies that established an unparalleled reputation for being a leading and reliable force in South Korean commerce.

We are proud to have the best of both worlds a startup culture with the resources of a large global public company. This fuels us to continue our growth and launch new services at the speed we have been since our inception. We are all entrepreneurial surrounded by opportunities to drive new initiatives and innovations. At our core we are bold and ambitious people that like to get our hands dirty and make a handson impact. At Coupang you will see yourself your colleagues your team and the company grow every day.

Our mission to build the future of commerce is real. We push the boundaries of whats possible to solve problems and break traditional tradeoffs. Join Coupang now to create an epic experience in this alwayson hightech and hyperconnected world.

Role Overview

Coupang relies on technology to provide ontime fast delivery of products to customers every day. The Fulfill 2 Promise org (F2P) is responsible for promises made to customers around inventory serviceability and delivery dates. And based on that promise optimizes for fulfillment such that fulfillment can happen at the lowest possible cost while maintaining the promise date. This creates unique tech challenges in terms of lowlatency event processing lowlatency data serving and consistency challenges. Building highly available low latency scalable strong consistent systems to handle billions of promise requests made per day is a complex architectural challenge. The ideal candidate will have excellent engineering skills business sense and rich experience leading the build of extensible and scalable solutions to solve complex business features.

What You Will Do

• Lead and drive architecture design of Fulfillment Optimization systems for scale consistency low latency future extensibility and reliability.
• Envision and drive alignment with stakeholders of the appropriate roadmap and future technology direction for Fulfillment Optimization systems.
• Navigate and alleviate technical obstacles and blockers at the organizational level.
• Decompose complex problems into simple straightforward solutions providing mechanisms for the teams to prioritize ruthlessly and move with urgency.
• Participate in the architecture development testing deployment and delivery of largescale global software applications systems platforms services or technologies.
• Write code when necessary to lead by example and help with highpriority projects.

Basic Qualifications

• 10 years of experience working directly within engineering teams in a fastmoving environment.
• 10 years of experience in developing and operating backend services and web applications for low latency servicing and messaging systems using complex event processing.
• 10 years of experience architecting and designing (architecture design patterns reliability and scaling) of new and current systems.
• Experience building complex highperformance highly available distributed software systems successfully delivered to customers.
• Experience in collaborating with crossfunctional teams to define mission vision and roadmaps.
• Experience partnering with product and program management teams.

Preferred Qualifications

• Experience on working on Supply chain optimization problems using Operation research optimization algorithms at an Ecommerce setup.
• Experience with distributed cache such as Apache Ignite Redis etc. with distributed processing of data streams using Spark and Flink.
• Experience with Kafka Stream Processing Complex Event Processing data synchronization between systems low latency serving systems writing real time data into data sinks with high throughput.
• Experience in building strongly consistent and low latency data synchronization and processing systems.
• Solid engineering skills as a lead engineer to coach and lead highperforming software engineers and keep them motivated.
• Demonstrated leadership in a crossfunctional highly collaborative environment.
• Track record of developing engineers through various career stages and building highperformance teams.
• Demonstrated focus on continuously improving systems software and processes through data analysis and metrics.
• Able to operate independently and lead through ambiguity in fastpaced environments.
• Experience with AWS Java language would be a plus.

Minimum Qualifications

• Bachelor Master or PhD degree in Computer Science Electronic Engineering Industrial Engineering or related discipline with 10 years of experience with large scale backend distributed systems.

Pay & Benefits:

Our compensation reflects the cost of labor 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 $159000/year in our lowest geographic market to $324000/year in our highest geographic market. Pay is based on several factors including market location and may vary depending on jobrelated knowledge skills and experience.

General Description of All Benefits:

• Medical/Dental/Vision/Life AD&D insurance
• Flexible Spending Accounts (FSA) & Health Savings Account (HSA)
• Longterm/Shortterm Disability
• Employee Assistance Program (EAP) program
• 401K Plan with Company Match
• 1821 days of the Paid Time Off (PTO) a year based on the tenure
• 12 Public Holidays
• Paid Parental leave
• Pretax commuter benefits

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.

Coupang is an equal opportunity employer. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to actual or perceived race (including traits historically associated with race including but not limited to hair texture and protective hair styles) color religion religious creed (including religious dress and grooming practices) sex or gender (including pregnancy childbirth breastfeeding and medical conditions related to pregnancy childbirth or breastfeeding) gender identity gender expression sexual orientation ancestry national origin (including language use restrictions) age 40 and over) physical or mental disability medical condition genetic information HIV/AIDS or Hepatitis C status family status (including but not limited to marital or domestic partnership status) military or veteran status use of a trained dog guide or service animal political activities or affiliations ancestry citizenship family and medical leave status status as a victim of any violent crime or any other characteristic or class protected by the laws or regulations in the locations where we operate. Coupang is also committed to providing a safe work environment for its employees and its consumers. As a condition of employment Coupang requires employees to be fully vaccinated against Covid19 subject to legally required accommodations. If you need assistance and/or a reasonable accommodation in the application of recruiting process due to a disability please contact us at .

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