Job Overview:
As a Sr. Staff Backend Software Engineer, this role will focus on Cloud Infrastructure, Services, and processes at its best to enhance Cloud infrastructure reliability & system efficiencies, productivity, availability, scalability, and system quality at 10X scale. This role will be responsible for diving deep into business problems, understanding current customer pain points, system domain, current Platform limitations (if exists) and then work closely with engineering teams / leaders to design and architect new system / services leveraging cloud infrastructure that can scale efficiently in terms of reliability, availability, and performance. This includes accountability for cloud infrastructure options that can perform and scale at 10X level but are still efficient, providing system architecture artifacts, guidance on using right machine type, network designs, deployment automation etc. You will be a part of a Global team working from various locations, but still operates as a centrally connected unit.
Key Skills and Role Responsibilities:
- Extensive experience with Cloud DevOps tools and coding (CI/CD, IaaC, Terraform, Terratest, Python, CloudFormation, Ansible, GitHub, CircleCI, Jenkins, Infra Automation).
- Extensive working experience with Kubernetes, Docker, Linux, and cloud services integrations.
- Strong technical analytical & design capability to understand common & shared platforms, web, & services API with underlying data to provide appropriate network, infrastructure recommendations.
- Strong ability to dive deep to understand current cloud infra and systems architecture to provide strategic partnership and improvements on network usage, role management, CDN, domains and cloud infrastructure security.
- Expert knowledge in performance (sub millisecond latencies), scalability, availability (99.99+% uptime), enterprise architecture best practices.
- Self-service code development and end-to-end back cloud deployment automation for application stack.
- Strong problem-solving skills, analytical capabilities, and attention to detail.
- Provide a roadmap and vision for scalable and robust growth for your cloud infrastructure and platform services to enable achieving 99.999% availability.
- 100% accountable for the reliable, scalable, and optimized cloud architecture, design, and platform services.
- Serve as Cloud Engineering expert for Cloud infrastructure Architecture, Design and Deployment and maintenance for highly reliable and scalable applications.
- Solve complex technical problems in Public Clouds (AWS, Azure, GCP) and Private Cloud environment and improve Operational Excellence.
- Analyze complex distributed production deployments and recommend ways to optimize performance and/or automate processes by managing continuous integration servers, utilizing monitoring, and testing tools.
- Identify opportunities to make disruptive improvements in cloud infrastructure usage, operations, and services with high degree of systematic automation.
- Exert technical influence over multiple teams, increasing their productivity and effectiveness by sharing your deep knowledge and experience.
- Collaborate with customers, stakeholders, and lead engineers on key mission-critical projects.
Qualifications:
- Bachelor's degree and/or Master's degree in Computer Science or equivalent with 15+ Years of strong hands-on experience in cloud platform engineering.
- 8+ years of hands-on experience in system engineering, Cloud DevOps, or Cloud SRE.
- 5+ years of hands-on experience leading system design, architecture leveraging AWS or Azure services.
- 7+ years of demonstrable hands-on experience building and operating infrastructure as code (IaC). Comfortable with many flavors of Linux.
- 7+ years of hands-on experience in building high-performance, highly available and scalable distributed systems in the cloud.
- 5+ years of hands-on experience in building and managing high-performance, highly available and scalable Hybrid Cloud environments.
- Excellent cross-group collaboration, outstanding verbal, and written communication.
Preferred:
- AWS Certification Advance Architecting, Developing on AWS.
- Strong hands-on experience on automating App stack deployments through IaC using Terraform, Python or Go.
- 7+ years of hands-on experience as a Cloud Infra Engineering.
- Team leading experience.
Pay & Benefits:
Our compensation reflects the cost of labor across several US geographic markets. At Coupang, your base pay is one part of your total compensation. The base pay for this position ranges from $159,000/year in our lowest geographic market to $324,000/year in our highest geographic market. Pay is based on several factors including market location and may vary depending on job-related knowledge, skills, and experience.
General Description of All Benefits:
- Medical/Dental/Vision/Life, AD&D insurance.
- Flexible Spending Accounts (FSA) & Health Savings Account (HSA).
- Long-term/Short-term Disability.
- Employee Assistance Program (EAP) program.
- 401K Plan with Company Match.
- 18-21 days of the Paid Time Off (PTO) a year based on the tenure.
- 12 Public Holidays.
- Paid Parental leave.
- Pre-tax commuter benefits.
- MTV - (Free) Electric Car Charging Station.
General Description of Other 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.
Coupang is an equal opportunity employer. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to actual or perceived race (including traits historically associated with race, including but not limited to hair texture and protective hair styles), color, religion, religious creed (including religious dress and grooming practices), sex or gender (including pregnancy, childbirth, breastfeeding, and medical conditions related to pregnancy, childbirth or breastfeeding), gender identity, gender expression, sexual orientation, ancestry, national origin (including language use restrictions), age (40 and over), physical or mental disability, medical condition, genetic information, HIV/AIDS or Hepatitis C status, family status (including but not limited to marital or domestic partnership status), military or veteran status, use of a trained dog guide or service animal, political activities or affiliations, ancestry, citizenship, family and medical leave status, status as a victim of any violent crime, or any other characteristic or class protected by the laws or regulations in the locations where we operate. Coupang is also committed to providing a safe work environment for its employees and its consumers. If you need assistance and/or a reasonable accommodation in the application of recruiting process due to a disability, please contact us at
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