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Staff ML Infra Engineer, Search & Discovery

Coupand

Job Location:

Mountain View, CA - USA

Monthly Salary: Not provided by the employer

Posted: 26 June 2026 (30+ days ago)

Application Deadline: 23 September 2026

Vacancies: 1 Vacancy

Job Summary

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 multi-billion-dollar e-commerce industry from the ground up. We are one of the fastest-growing e-commerce companies that established an 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 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

As our Staff Software Engineer ML infra Engineer for Search & Discovery organization you will be in charge of designing and implementing durable & efficient software solutions that handle massive volume of structured and unstructured data needed to train complex ML models and efficiently serve them online.

The Search & Discovery organization is responsible for optimizing customers navigation experience and driving long-term growth. Every week millions of customers use search in our app or on more than one third of them make purchases. Over half of the Coupang sales are directly attributed to search and recommendation. Many business initiatives and growth strategies are driven or boosted by ranking and recommendation.

This role is an opportunity to build scalable offline and online ML platforms to support ranking and recommendation and business decision making. You will be handling billions of records of user interaction data and petabytes of raw log files and transforming them into data objects that can be easily consumed by engineers and scientists. You will also be responsible for serving complex ML models in real time to help millions of Coupang customers search and discover products. If you are passionate about big data engineering and scalable serving systems you want to make real business impact and you are a true problem solver this is the right job for you.

What You Will Do

Proactively drive the execution of end-to-end data platform data quality roadmap for Search & Discovery ML efforts
Take ownership consolidate and optimize the Search & Discovery core data logging processing and ML model training pipelines
Develop and scale data infrastructure that powers batch and real-time data processing monitoring and debugging for ML experiments
Drive design and implementation of scalable ML based ranking system and online ML inference services
Build strong cross-functional partnerships with Data Scientists Analysts Product Managers Indexing Platform Engineers Ranking Engineers and Data Platform Engineers to understand both the offline and online needs and deliver on those needs
Research analyze and select technical approaches for solving difficult and challenging development and integration problems coach and mentor other engineers in process and methodologies

Basic Qualifications

Bachelors degree in computer science electrical engineering mathematics statistics or
closely related fields
5 years of professional experience in applied machine learning
Experience in machine learning deep learning and statistical modeling
Proficiency in Python and/or Java with experience in building production grade ML
systems

Preferred Qualifications

Computer science fundamentals: data structures algorithms performance complexity and implications of computer architecture on software performance (e.g. I/O and memory tuning)
Experience with Big Data tools and ETL frameworks (Hadoop Hive Presto Spark Scala Apache Airflow etc.)
Experience with ML frameworks such as Tensorflow and Pytorch
Experience with deploying highly robust and scalable data pipelines processing petabytes of data
Experience in managing mission critical services with high throughput and low latency
Experience with integrating applications and platforms with cloud technologies (i.e AWS and GCP)
Strong verbal and written communication skills
Ability to conduct meetings and make professional presentations and explain complex concepts and technical material to non-technical users
Experience with machine learning platform for search & discovery related rankings is a strong plus

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 $174000K/year to $299000K/year. 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 and Others

Recruitment Process

Application Review - Phone Interview - Onsite (or Virtual Onsite) 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

Your personal information will be collected and managed by Coupang as stated in the Application Privacy Notice located below: 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.
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Job Requisition ID: R0075534

Required Experience:

Staff IC

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