Coupang Global LLC
Staff Web Security Engineer
Seattle, USA · Staff+
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About the role
- The Detection Operations team is responsible for protecting Coupang's global attack surface across web, network, email, and endpoint security.
- Our mission is to detect, investigate, and mitigate cyber threats before they impact the business.
- By combining proactive threat detection, rapid response, and in-depth root cause analysis, we help minimize security risks while continuously improving our overall security posture and preventing future incidents.
Responsibilities
- Design, deploy, and manage security controls that protect externally facing web and API services from a wide range of cyber threats using industry-leading security platforms and services.
- Develop and maintain operational procedures, documentation, and automation workflows to increase efficiency and scalability across security operations.
- Perform large-scale analysis of SIEM, security telemetry, and web access logs to identify trends, investigate incidents, and provide actionable security insights through reports and metrics.
- Partner with engineering, infrastructure, and security teams to investigate security incidents, improve operational processes, and drive cross-functional security initiatives.
- Create and maintain monitoring use cases, detection logic, playbooks, and response procedures to improve security visibility and response effectiveness.
- Team members are encouraged to take ownership, drive improvements, and contribute directly to strengthening Coupang's security capabilities.
Requirements
- Bachelors Degree in Computer Science or a related field
- 4 years of experience in Security Engineering or Cybersecurity
Nice to have
- Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Cybersecurity, Information Security, or a related field, or equivalent practical experience.
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Benefits
- Analyze and tune Web Application Firewall (WAF) detections to reduce false positives and false negatives, improve security coverage, deploy security policies, and respond to emerging vulnerabilities and CVEs.
Company info
- 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.
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