Director, Back-end Engineering
About The Position
Coupang is seeking a Director to lead and scale its Data Ingestion & Analytics Platform team. The role focuses on building and operating data platform capabilities that turn the company’s daily petabytes of collected data into insights and business metrics. The Director will support team members’ technical and professional growth while working closely with product, data science, and business stakeholders. This is a hands-on leadership role involving technical and design discussions, guidance on system designs and coding, and ownership of planning and delivery for complex technical projects. The position also includes responsibility for platform operations and service-level agreements, maintaining high availability across high-QPS ingestion services, and delivering scalable analytics infrastructure.
Requirements
- 15+ years of experience in data warehouse engineering and business intelligence.
- 5+ years leading, managing, and hiring a team of engineers.
- 5+ years building large-scale, high-volume data warehouse environments.
- Deep database development expertise, including SQL.
- Expertise with various ETL technologies and familiarity with ETL tools.
- Solid understanding of relational and NoSQL database technologies.
- Experience with visualization, data mining, or statistical tools.
- Excellent critical-thinking, problem-solving, and analytical skills.
- Excellent communication skills and ability to work effectively with others.
- Strong people skills for partnering with key business stakeholders.
- BS degree in Computer Science or equivalent.
Nice To Haves
- Experience with a data warehouse appliance (DW Appliance).
Responsibilities
- Lead and scale the Data Ingestion & Analytics Platform team and help team members grow technically and professionally.
- Work with product and data scientist teams to plan, execute, and ensure the success of complex technical projects.
- Hire engineers and provide technical guidance, career development, and mentoring.
- Participate as a hands-on manager in key technical and design discussions with technical leads.
- Partner with business stakeholders to prioritize work and build products supporting the data platform ingestion and analytics team.
- Provide technical leadership and guidance on designs and coding when time allows.
- Own platform operations and SLAs, maintaining high availability across high-QPS ingestion services.
- Partner with product management, data science, and senior executive stakeholders across business units to prioritize platform capabilities and deliver scalable analytics infrastructure.
Benefits
- Annual bonus of 0–20% of base salary.
- Medical, dental, vision, and life insurance, plus AD&D insurance.
- Flexible Spending Accounts (FSA) and Health Savings Account (HSA).
- Long-term and short-term disability coverage.
- Employee Assistance Program (EAP).
- 401(k) plan with company match.
- 18–21 days of paid time off per year, based on tenure.
- 12 public holidays.
- Paid parental leave.
- Pre-tax commuter benefits.
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What This Job Offers
Job Type
Full-time
Career Level
Director
