Sr. Staff Backend Software Engineer

Company Introduction

We exist to wow our customers. We knowweredoing the right thing when we hear our customers say How did we ever live without Coupang Born out of an obsession to make shopping eating and living easier than everwerecollectively disrupting the multi-billion-dollar e-commerce industry from the ground up. We are one of the fastest-growing e-commerce companies thatestablishedan unparalleled reputation for being a dominant 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 ourinception. 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 hands-on 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 ofwhatspossible to solve problems and break traditional tradeoffs. Join Coupang now to create an epic experience in this always-on high-tech and hyper-connected world.

Job Overview

Coupang relies on technology to provide on-time fast delivery of products to customers every day. Fulfillment Technology focuses on managing highly scalable systems for Coupang that includes Inventory and Warehouse Management systems. Building highly available and scalable systems to handle billions of order & delivery transactions and support Coupangs rapidly growing Product Commerce business is a complex architectural challenge. We are responsible for delivering products to millions of online shopping customers by improving order reconciliation with technology. To deliver on this challenge we are looking for an experienced and passionate engineer who can design and build large-scale multi-tiered distributed services.

Key Responsibilities

• Demonstrate excellence resulting in scalable systems and services with the highest quality architecture and design.
• Responsible for designing buildingdeployingandmaintainingthe core Workflow Platform Infrastructure. (e.g. Workflow Platforms - Temporal Netflix Conductor etc.)
• Responsible for benchmarking the Platform collectingmetrics& publishingresults.
• Responsible for measuring & ensuring reliability and uptime of the Platform with 99.995% guarantees.
• Responsible for capacity estimation & provisioning of cluster for different customer workloads.
• Responsible for production incident Monitoring & Alerting for the Platform.
• Detail oriented andhands onengineerwho can analyze OSS Platform components and code.
• Dive deep into critical system issues proactively addressing similar root causes and raise the bar on Operational Excellence.
• Exposure to one of the SQL or NoSQL database systems. (CassandraMySQLetc.)
• Collaborate with other teams to make the platform open and extensible to unlock innumerable opportunities for innovations.

Qualifications

• 10 years of experience working directly within engineering teams in a fast-moving environment.
• 10 years of experience in developing and operating backend services and web applications.
• Experience building complex high-performance andhighly availabledistributed software systems that have been successfully delivered to customers.
• Strong familiarity developing with Java and Spring Framework as well as experience in an AWS environment.
• Extensive experience in managing mission critical services with high throughput and low latency.

Preferred Qualifications

• Solid engineering skills as a lead engineer to coach and lead high performing software engineers and keep them motivated.
• Excellent communication skills to shepherd communication with end users technical & business teams to collect requirements describe product features and develop technical designs to achieve business goals.
• Knowledge of Agile software engineering practices & patterns for the full software development lifecycle including coding standards code reviews build processes testing and live site operations.
• Demonstrated leadership incross-functional highly collaborative environment.

Minimum Qualifications:

• Bachelors degree and 7 years of total experience
• Ability to solve problems through creative thinking and partnerships with other teams
• Ability toattainchallenging 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 $174000/year to $299000/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.

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  Job Requisition ID: R0074201