Coupang Global LLC
Staff, Back-end engineer (Inventory Platform)
Seattle, USA · Staff+
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About the role
- At Coupang, you will see yourself, your colleagues, your team, and the company grow every day.
- We push the boundaries of what's possible to solve problems and break traditional tradeoffs.
Responsibilities
- Demonstrate excellence resulting in scalable systems and services with the highest quality architecture and design.
- Collaborate with other teams to make the platform open and extensible to unlock innumerable opportunities for innovations.
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
Nice to have
- Extensive experience in managing mission critical services with high throughput and low latency.
- Demonstrated leadership in cross-functional, highly collaborative environment.
- Employee Assistance Program (EAP) program
- 401K Plan with Company Match
- Our compensation reflects the cost of living across several US geographic markets.
- The base pay for this position ranges from $164,000/year to $282,000/year.
Skills
- Company Introduction
- Job Overview
- Responsible for benchmarking the Platform, collecting metrics & publishing results.
- Responsible for measuring & ensuring reliability and uptime of the Platform with 99.995% guarantees.
- Responsible for capacity estimation & provisioning of cluster for different customer workloads.
- Responsible for production incident Monitoring & Alerting for the Platform.
- Dive deep into critical system issues, proactively addressing similar root causes, and raise the bar on Operational Excellence.
- Exposure to one of the SQL or NoSQL database systems. (Cassandra, MySQL etc.)
Compensation
- Our compensation reflects the cost of living across several US geographic markets.
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.
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