Senior Staff Backend Engineer - Platform
Senior Staff Backend Engineer - Platform
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Job Description
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 end-to-end e-commerce 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 e-commerce opportunities in the world.
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:
The Developer platform team is responsible for Coupangs developer experiences including Coupangs internal workload management and microservice ecosystem which scales to thousands of microservices. We are in the process of revolutionizing our developer experiences and internal infrastructure by adopting the best technologies available.
We are looking for developers who have a deep understanding of distributed systems hands-on experience in large scale backend services Kubernetes gRPC and service mesh. You will be responsible for designing the architecture and leading the team to deliver a modern platform that powers all Coupangs internal services.
What You Will Do :
As a Senior Staff Software Engineer in Developer platform you will partner with leaders of multiple platform teams. You will work closely with the product team to define and implement simple solutions to complex infrastructure problems while ensuring to build a highly scalable reliable and efficient platform for our customers.
You will technically lead projects working on full stack development teams using JAVA AWS Kafka Kubernetes gRPC and service mesh. You will be accountable for raising the bar on engineering and operational excellence.
KeyResponsibilities:
- Shape the future of our Developer Experience and Process strategy
- Increase developer productivity by using analyzing designing and implementing innovative development processes
- Hands-on development of critical infrastructure components.
- Decompose complex problems into simple straightforward solutions providing mechanisms for the teams to prioritize ruthlessly and move with urgency.
- 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.
EssentialQualifications:
- Atleast15yearsinsoftwaredevelopmentwithastrongrecordofdeliveringimpactfullarge-scalesystems.
- Deepexpertiseindistributedsystemsstoragedataprocessingandservertechnologies.
- One who is fluent in one or more among C Java Go Javascript and Typescript.
Preferred Qualifications :
- OnewhohasexperienceinCI/CDpipelinesJfrogartifactoryYamlandAWScloud.
- OnewhohasexperienceinKubernetesgRPCSpringboot.
- Onewhohasexperienceinconcurrencymulti-threadingsynchronizationandnon-blockingIO.
- OnewhohasdeepunderstandingofoperatingsystemkernelanddistributedsystemsuchasKafkaCassandraandSpark.
- Abilitytohandlemultiplecompetingprioritiesinafast-pacedenvironmentandleadingthedeliveryoflarge-scaleservicesforcomplexbusinessofferings.
EqualOpportunitiesforAll
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Required Experience:
Staff IC
Employment Type
Full-Time
