Staff Back-end Engineer

Company Introduction

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 we are collectively disrupting the multi-billion-dollar commerce industry from the ground up and establishing an unparalleled reputation for being 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 entrepreneurs 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 of whats possible 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.

Role Overview

Rocket Growth is the 2P marketplace at Coupang. Coupangs Rocket Growth team is dedicated to providing our customers with the best selection at the lowest prices while ensuring utmost convenience for our sellers. We are seeking a Staff Back-end Engineer to join our this fast-paced environment you will collaborate with a team of smart and passionate engineers to design and implement systems that meet the needs of our growing business. You will have direct ownership of new features aimed at enhancing the scalability reliability availability extensibility and performance of our platform. We prioritize delighting customers while building high-quality software and seek candidates with a proven track record in designing and implementing large-scale distributed systems.

Basic Qualifications

• 7 years of professional software development experience with focused on large-scale back-end systems and microservices architectures.
• Proven track record of designing building and operating high-throughput low-latency distributed systems in production (handling strict SLAs/SLOs for availability and durability).
• Deep technical mastery in at least one modern back-end language (e.g. Go Java Python C or Rust) and strong proficiency with relational (e.g. PostgreSQL MySQL) and non-relational databases (e.g. Cassandra Redis DynamoDB).
• Demonstrated experience establishing architecture paradigms API standards (REST gRPC GraphQL) and technical strategy across multiple engineering teams.
• Hands-on experience with cloud infrastructure (AWS GCP or Azure) container orchestration (Kubernetes) and modern CI/CD pipelines.

Preferred Qualifications

• Expertise in event-driven architectures and distributed messaging platforms (e.g. Apache Kafka RabbitMQ Pulsar).
• Proven history of leading major technical turnarounds such as zero-downtime database migrations legacy system modernization or major infrastructure cost-optimization initiatives.
• Strong background in observability and reliability engineering (distributed tracing OpenTelemetry chaos engineering incident management leadership).
• History of active technical mentorshipsuccessfully growing Senior (L5) engineers into Lead/Staff roles.

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 $152000/year in our lowest geographic market to $261000/year in our highest geographic market. Pay is based on several factors including market location and may vary depending on job-related knowledge skills and experience.

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 Public Holidays
• 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.

Recruitment Process

• Application Review - Job Fit Interview - Focus Interview Offer
• The exact nature of the recruitment process may vary according to the specific job and may be changed due to scheduling or other circumstances.
• Interview schedules and the results will be informed to the applicant via the e-mail address submitted at the application stage.

Details to Consider

• This job posting may be closed prior to the stated end date for application if all openings are filled.
• Coupang has the right to rescind an offer of employment if a candidate is found to have submitted false information as part of the application process.
• Those eligible for employment protection (recipients of veterans benefits the disabled etc.) may receive preferential treatment for employment in accordance with applicable laws.

Privacy Notice

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  Job Requisition ID: R0079167