Coupang Global LLC
Senior Staff Cloud Backend Engineer
Seattle, USA · Staff+
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About the role
- Conduct root cause analysis and post-mortem reviews to prevent recurrence of incidents.
- Roles and Responsibilities: Observability and Monitoring:
- Ensure that observability and reliability solutions comply with security policies and industry standards.
Responsibilities
- Design, implement, and maintain observability solutions for datacenter infrastructure.
- Develop, deploy, and maintain the operational and reliability components of a large-scale Observability and Telemetry collection platform, emphasizing performance at scale, real-time monitoring, logging, and alerting.
- Participate in and enhance the entire lifecycle of services, from inception and design to deployment, operation, and refinement.
- Develop and optimize monitoring systems to ensure high availability and performance.
- Analyze and optimize the performance of datacenter systems and applications.
- Implement best practices for resource utilization and efficiency.
- Collaborate with hardware and software vendors to evaluate and integrate new technologies.
- Implement and maintain security measures to protect data and infrastructure.
- Provide support for observability and reliability-related issues, including debugging and resolving hardware and software problems.
- Develop and maintain documentation for troubleshooting procedures and best practices.
Requirements
- Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Electrical Engineering, Math, or a closely related field
- 8 years of experience in backend software development
- Experience working in cloud environments, particularly AWS
- Proficiency in observability tools and technologies (e.g., Prometheus, Grafana, ELK Stack).
- Experience with SRE practices and tools (e.g., Kubernetes, Docker, Terraform).
- Familiarity with cloud platforms (AWS, Azure, GCP) and their observability and reliability services.
- Ability to work in a fast-paced, dynamic environment.
- Demonstrated experience in building and maintaining highly available, distributed systems
- Preferred Qualification:
- Strong programming and scripting skills (e.g., Python, Go, Bash).
- Strong problem-solving skills and attention to detail.
- Excellent communication and collaboration skills.
- 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.
Skills
- Stay updated with the latest advancements in observability and SRE technologies and integrate them into the infrastructure.
Compensation
- Our compensation reflects the cost of living across several US geographic markets.
Benefits
- Medical/Dental/Vision/Life, AD&D insurance
- Flexible Spending Accounts (FSA) & Health Savings Account (HSA)
- Long-term/Short-term Disability
- 18-21 days of the Paid Time Off (PTO) a year based on the tenure
- Paid Parental leave
- Pre-tax commuter benefits
- Those eligible for employment protection (recipients of veteran's benefits, the disabled, etc.) may receive preferential treatment for employment in accordance with applicable laws.
- If you need assistance and/or reasonable accommodation in the recruiting process due to a disability, please contact us at usrecruiting@coupang.com.
Company info
- Company Introduction We exist to wow our customers.
- 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.
- Coupang has the right to rescind an offer of employment if a candidate is found to have submitted false information as part of the
Equal opportunity
- equal opportunity employer.
Visa & Work Authorization
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