Coupa
Lead Cloud Software Engineer - 11629
Foster City, CA, United States
Sponsorship not specified$142k-$199kDetected 28 days ago
PythonJavaGoDistributed SystemsCode ReviewVector DatabasesAWSGCPCloud PlatformsDockerKubernetesTerraformCI/CDDevOpsPlatform EngineeringMachine LearningLLMsRAGAgentic AIMLOpsLeadershipCommunicationCollaborationMentoring
About the role
- Coupa AI is informed by trillions of dollars of direct and indirect spend data across a global network of 10M+ buyers and suppliers.
- Learn more on Life at Coupa blog and hear from our employees about their experiences working at Coupa.
Responsibilities
- Design Enterprise-Scale Platform Solutions: Architect complex, multi-tenant platform systems that support high availability, scalability, and security requirements across global multi-cloud environments
- Drive Technical Leadership and Mentorship: Lead and mentor a team of platform devops engineers, providing technical guidance, code reviews, and career development while fostering a culture of engineering excellence
- Establish Platform Engineering Standards: Define and implement best practices, coding standards and architectural principles that ensure consistency, reliability, and maintainability across all platform components
- Collaborate with the Principal Architect and AI/ML Engineering Lead on technical direction.
- Collaborate with platform, Dev & QE teams to plan & deploy the releases.
- Participate in design reviews, code reviews, troubleshooting incidents & write, and review Incident RCAs
- Enterprise Platform Design: Proven track record designing and implementing large-scale platform solutions, including microservices architectures, container orchestration, and distributed systems patterns
- Advanced Automation and Programming: Expert-level programming skills in multiple languages (Python, Go, Java, etc.) with extensive experience building sophisticated automation frameworks and platform tools
- Strategic CI/CD and DevOps: Deep expertise in enterprise CI/CD design, MLOps pipelines, and DevOps transformation initiatives, with experience implementing these practices across large engineering organizations
- Architectural Decision Making: Proven ability to make complex technical trade-offs, evaluate emerging technologies, and drive architectural decisions that balance current needs with long-term scalability
Requirements
- We empower you with the ability to predict, prescribe, and automate smarter, more profitable business decisions to improve operating margins.
- 10+ years of hands-on platform engineering experience with 3+ years in technical leadership roles, including experience managing complex cloud infrastructure at enterprise scale
- Enterprise AI platform infrastructure development experience
- Senior Platform Engineering Leadership: 10+ years of hands-on platform engineering experience with 3+ years in technical leadership roles, including experience managing complex cloud infrastructure at enterprise scale
Skills
- Involve in evaluation of new products and technologies like RAG, MCP servers. AI Agents, Agentic Workflows, etc.
- Deployment and Life cycle Management of LLM & Embedding Models.
- Build and manage MLOps pipeline.
- Infrastructure As Code (IaC e.g Terraform) with Multi Cloud Deployments.
- Ensure technical quality through code reviews, architecture discussions, and engineering standards.
Compensation
- Decisions related to hiring, compensation, training, or evaluating performance are made fairly, and we provide equal employment opportunities to all qualified candidates and employees.
Benefits
- As our Lead of AI LLM Platform DevOps team, you will build solutions that enable this vision.
- Define and drive the long-term technical vision for Agentic AI platform and LLM infrastructure, making strategic decisions on technology choices, architectural patterns and platform evolution.
Company info
- At Coupa, we're at the forefront of innovation, leveraging the latest technology to empower our customers with greater efficiency and visibility in their spend. 🔹
- We value collaboration and teamwork, and our culture is driven by transparency, openness, and a shared commitment to excellence. 🔹
- Join a company where your work has a global, measurable impact on our clients, the business, and each other.
- At our company, we believe the next generation of enterprise software will be powered by AI-driven platforms that are secure, scalable, and built for constant innovation.
Equal opportunity
- #LI-HYBRID #LI-AA2 Coupa complies with relevant laws and regulations regarding equal opportunity and offers a welcoming and inclusive work environment.
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