Coupang Global LLC

Coupang Global LLC

Sr. Director, AI Infrastructure

Mountain View, USA; Seattle, USA · Director

Sponsorship not specified$18k-$21kDetected 85 days ago
PythonGoDistributed SystemsAWSAzureCloud PlatformsDockerKubernetesLinuxDevOpsMachine LearningLLMsMLOpsEpicLeadershipCommunicationCollaboration

About the role

  • Define and execute the long-term vision and roadmap for the company's AI infrastructure orchestration layer, aligning it with overall business and AI Services goals.
  • Act as a key liaison between AI Infra and other services owners and consumers, core engineering, Cloud infrastructure, and executive leadership.
  • Ensure reliability, security, and compliance of the AI infrastructure, meeting strict standards for data governance and model integrity.

Responsibilities

  • 15+ years of Cloud backend engineering, Cloud Design, Deployment, DevOps
  • Manage budget and resource allocation for AI infrastructure delievrables.
  • The time-to-market for AI Infar build, scale and operate
  • Champion infrastructure-as-code (IaC) principles to manage and provision AI resources consistently and at scale.

Requirements

  • 15+ years of progressive experience in software engineering, infrastructure, or platform operations.
  • 5+ years of experience leading and managing technical teams, ideally in a Director or Sr.
  • Proven experience specifically with AI infrastructure orchestration (e.g., using Kubernetes, Kubeflow, or similar MLOps tools) and managing acceleratedcompute resources (GPUs, TPUs etc).
  • 15+ years of experience leading system design, architecture leveraging Private Clouds and AWS and/or Azure/ GCP.

Nice to have

  • Prior experience managing infrastructure for training and inferecning of large language models (LLMs) or foundation models.
  • Experience in a regulated industry with strict compliance requirements.
  • Our compensation reflects the cost of labor across several US geographic markets.
  • The base pay for this position ranges from $184,000/year in our lowest geographic market to $376,000/year in our highest geographic market.
  • Employee Assistance Program (EAP) program
  • 401K Plan with Company Match
  • 12 Public Holidays

Skills

  • Expert-level knowledge of containerization and orchestration (Docker, Kubernetes).
  • Strong background in DevOps and MLOps principles and tooling.
  • Proficiency in at least one modern programming language (e.g., Python, Go).
  • Exceptional strategic planning, organizational, and written/verbal communication skills.
  • Deep, hands-on experience designing and operating large-scale distributed systems and cloud-native architectures

Compensation

  • "Other Compensation" includes, but is not limited to, bonuses, equity, or other forms of compensation that would be offered to the hired applicant in addition to their established salary range or wage scale.

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

Company info

  • At Coupang, your base pay is one part of your total compensation.

Equal opportunity

  • Coupang is an equal opportunity employer.
  • equal opportunity employer.

Visa & Work Authorization

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