Staff, Back-end engineer (Inventory Platform)
About The Position
Coupang’s Inventory Platform organization builds critical services and platforms that support the fulfillment of customer orders, from order placement through delivery. The team develops highly available and scalable systems for billions of order and delivery transactions and supports the growing Product Commerce business by improving order reconciliation through technology. The role is for an experienced engineer who can design and build large-scale, multi-tiered, distributed services. The engineer will help ensure the platform’s scalability, reliability, and operational excellence. This includes benchmarking and reporting platform metrics, maintaining a 99.995% reliability and uptime guarantee, estimating capacity and provisioning clusters for different customer workloads, and supporting production monitoring and alerting. The role also involves analyzing open-source platform components and code, investigating critical system issues and their root causes, and collaborating across teams to make the platform open and extensible.
Requirements
- Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Electrical Engineering, Math, or a closely related field.
- At least 8 years of experience in backend software development.
- Experience working in cloud environments, particularly AWS.
- Demonstrated experience building and maintaining highly available, distributed systems.
- Exposure to at least one SQL or NoSQL database system, such as Cassandra or MySQL.
Nice To Haves
- Experience developing and operating backend services and web applications.
- Experience building complex, high-performance, highly available distributed software systems delivered to customers.
- Strong familiarity with Java and the Spring Framework, and experience in an AWS environment.
- Extensive experience managing mission-critical services with high throughput and low latency.
- Engineering leadership skills, including coaching and leading high-performing software engineers and keeping them motivated.
- Excellent communication skills for working with end users and technical and business teams to gather requirements, explain product features, and develop technical designs that meet business goals.
- Knowledge of Agile software engineering practices and patterns across the full software development lifecycle, including coding standards, code reviews, build processes, testing, and live-site operations.
- Demonstrated leadership in a cross-functional, highly collaborative environment.
Responsibilities
- Design and build scalable systems and services with high-quality architecture and design.
- Benchmark the platform, collect metrics, and publish results.
- Measure and ensure platform reliability and uptime, with a 99.995% guarantee.
- Estimate capacity and provision clusters for different customer workloads.
- Monitor production incidents and maintain platform alerting.
- Analyze open-source platform components and code.
- Investigate critical system issues, address root causes proactively, and improve operational excellence.
- Collaborate with other teams to make the platform open and extensible.
Benefits
- 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
- Employee Assistance Program (EAP)
- 401(k) plan with company match
- 18–21 days of paid time off per year, based on tenure
- 12 paid holidays
- Up to 6 weeks of paid parental leave
- Pre-tax commuter benefits
- Free electric car charging station
- Annual bonus of 0–20% of base salary
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What This Job Offers
Job Type
Full-time
Career Level
Senior
