Senior Staff Backend Engineer (GOT)

Coupang Internal • Seattle, WA

73d

About The Position

The Global Operation Technology (Global Operations Tech) is responsible for the system that enable Coupang to reliably fulfill customer orders in Fulfillment Centers within hours of order placement. The Global Ops Tech Organization is on a mission to innovate by building an efficient ecosystem that operates at breakthrough scale and speed. Coupang relies on technology to provide on-time, fast delivery of products to customers every day. FEX organization optimizes the real-time distribution of customer orders to FCs nationwide and supports the most efficient order fulfillment process. Building highly available and scalable systems to handle billions of order & delivery transactions and support Coupang’s rapidly growing Product Commerce business is a complex architectural challenge. We are responsible for delivering products to millions of online shopping customers by improving order reconciliation with technology. To deliver on this challenge, we are looking for an experienced and passionate engineer who can design and build large-scale, multi-tiered, distributed services.

Requirements

• 5+ years of experience working directly within engineering teams in a fast-moving environment.
• 5+ years of experience in developing and operating backend services and web applications.
• Experience building complex, high-performance, and highly available distributed software systems that have been successfully delivered to customers.
• Strong familiarity developing with Java and Spring Framework as well as experience in an AWS environment.
• Extensive experience in managing mission critical services with high throughput and low latency.
• BS in Computer Science, EE, or other engineering fields. MS preferred.

Nice To Haves

• Solid engineering skills as a lead engineer to coach and lead high performing software engineers and keep them motivated.
• Excellent communication skills to shepherd communication with end users, technical & business teams to collect requirements, describe product features, and develop technical designs to achieve business goals.
• Knowledge of Agile software engineering practices & patterns for the full software development lifecycle including coding standards, code reviews, build processes, testing, and live site operations.
• Demonstrated leadership in cross-functional, highly collaborative environment.

Responsibilities

• Demonstrate excellence resulting in scalable systems and services with the highest quality architecture and design.
• Responsible for designing, building, deploying and maintaining the core Workflow Platform Infrastructure.
• 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.
• Detail oriented and hands on engineer who can analyze OSS Platform components and code.
• 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.
• Collaborate with other teams to make the platform open and extensible to unlock innumerable opportunities for innovations.

What This Job Offers

• Education Level: Bachelor's degree