Coupanginternal

Coupanginternal

Senior Staff Backend Engineer

Mountain View, USA; Seattle, USA · Staff+

Sponsorship not specified$18k-$21kDetected 5 days ago
PythonJavaSpringDistributed SystemsCassandraAWSCloud PlatformsKubernetesTemporalMachine LearningCadenceElectrical EngineeringEpicLeadership

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About the role

  • As part of our Application Infrastructure org, this is a greenfield team that will impact complex Coupang workflow systems.
  • It is a highly visible system with hundreds of millions of dollars of revenue flowing through the systems.
  • At Coupang, we Aim High and Find a Way to solve impossible problems.

Responsibilities

  • Lead the end-to-end design of a distributed workflow engine.
  • You will Build the Best Team and Help Them Grow by setting the gold standard for architectural integrity and high-performance code.
  • Design for "5-6 nines" (99.9999% availability).
  • Architect from Zero: Lead the end-to-end design of a distributed workflow engine.
  • Lead with Influence: As a Senior Staff Engineer, you will Influence without Authority, collaborating across the organization to ensure this platform becomes the backbone of our global operations.
  • 12+ years of professional software development experience, specifically building backend infrastructure that supports global-scale traffic.

Requirements

  • Bachelor's degree in computer science, Electrical Engineering, Math, or a closely related field
  • 8 years of experience in backend software development
  • Proficiency in Java and the Spring Framework
  • Experience working in cloud environments, particularly AWS
  • You must Be Data-Driven to validate architectural decisions against massive traffic patterns.
  • Expert-level proficiency in Java, Python with deep understanding of concurrency and memory management.

Nice to have

  • High Availability Mastery: Proven track record of managing and maintaining systems with 5-6 nines of availability.
  • You understand that "good enough" isn't enough
  • we Focus on the Customer and the Experience by ensuring zero downtime.
  • Distributed Systems Expert: Deep expertise in designing and deploying mission-critical systems (e.g., databases, messaging queues, or orchestration engines) from the ground up.
  • Technical Mastery: Expert-level proficiency in Java, Python with deep understanding of concurrency and memory management.
  • Specialized Knowledge: Deep familiarity with the Temporal or Cadence programming models and their underlying architecture.
  • Experience in Kubernetes and containerization.
  • Stateful Database Experience: Experience with Cassandra and TiDB preferred

Compensation

  • Our compensation reflects the cost of living across several US geographic markets.

Benefits

  • Experience or a strong architectural vision for using AI/ML to automate system-level functionality and operational tasks.
  • A nnual bonus is 0-20% of the base salary
  • Medical/Dental/Vision/Life, AD&D insurance
  • Flexible Spending Accounts (FSA) & Health Savings Account (HAS)
  • Long-term/Short-term Disability
  • 18-21 days of Paid Time Off (PTO) a year based on the tenure
  • Paid Parental leave
  • Pre-tax commuter benefits

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.
  • You will Dive Deep into the tail latencies and edge cases of distributed state management to ensure our platform is always on for our customers.
  • Define Extreme Availability: Design for "5-6 nines" (99.9999% availability). You will Dive Deep into the tail latencies and edge cases of distributed state management to ensure our platform is always on for our customers.
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