Staff Software Engineer

Employer: Coupang Global LLC Job Title: Staff Software Engineer Job Requisition: 22237.270.5 Job Location: Seattle, WA Job Type: Full Time Rate of Pay: $214,000 per year Duties: Design the architecture and lead the team to deliver a modern platform that powers Coupang’s internal services and ML platform. Partner with leaders of multiple platform teams. Work closely with the product team to define and implement simple solutions of complex infrastructure problems while ensuring to build a highly scalable, reliable and efficient platform for our customers. Technically guide teams working on full stack development using JAVA, AWS, Kafka, Kubernetes, Kubeflow, Argo CD and gRPC. Accountable for hiring and developing technical leaders and top talent, raising the bar on engineering and operational excellence. Architect workload and service management infrastructure. 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”. Envision roadmaps for the scalable and robust growth of Coupang’s growing Application infrastructure. Align with stakeholders, develop strong developers and provide technical guidance to engineers on critical projects to resolve complex business problems. 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. May telecommute 50% of the time.

Requires Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science or related technical field (will accept foreign education equivalent), and four (4) years of experience in proffered role or related occupation designing and developing large-scale distributed systems.

Candidate must also possess:

• Demonstrated Expertise (“DE”) programming in Java and Python.
• DE with cloud computing using AWS or Azure.
• DE leading technical project teams.
• DE in building microservices using REST APIs and Event driven systems using AWS SQS/SNS or Kafka.
• DE in database technologies such as DynamoDB or Mongo DB.

Benefits: Medical/dental/vision/life, AD&D, FSA, HSA, long- & short-term disability, EAP, 401k, PTO, public holidays, paid parental leave, pre-tax commuter, bonuses & equity.

Contact: Send your resume to resumes@coupanginc.com. Must reference job 22237.270.5.