About the position
The Coupang Corner Stone team in application infrastructure organization, takes charge of company-wide transaction data storage and common data service layer to materialize e-commerce data for a low latency reading. The team owns the common data service which is at the core of e-commerce business to connect vertical business data and front-end data consumers. It ingests data from various data storages, processes within minutes in parallel and saves in persistent storage for customer facing front-end to consume. We are looking for software development engineers with large data processing and data materialization experience. As a Staff Engineer, you are the tech leader in the team taking charge of system design, implementation, service optimization and daily operation.
Responsibilities
- Hand on the system and new feature design, implementation, testing and release of Common data service and Storage system.
- Dive deep into the system and fix complex technical problems.
- Participate in the daily system operation to address system issues and answer the customer questions.
- Identify the system reliability and performance issue and propose solutions applying best industry practice.
- Collaborate with other Coupang tech teams to make the service extensible to support business growth.
- Advocate engineer excellence and operation excellence with the team.
Requirements
- 8+ years professional software development experience, or 6 years of experience with an advanced degree.
- At least 6 years of experience working in backend systems with a focus on Java.
- At least 4 years of experience working in data technologies - SQL and NoSQL.
- Proven experience on delivering mission critical projects at large scale.
- Practical experience with IaC (preferably Terraform) and CI/CD.
- Experience with cloud computing - one or more of AWS/Azure/GCP.
Nice-to-haves
- Experience in server-side web app frameworks such as SpringBoot.
- Experience with shift left methodologies focusing on high quality and faster time to market.
- Deep understanding of modern web application architectures and design patterns that lead to high performance and scale.
- Deep appreciation for metrics and observability with undeterred focus on raising the bar for the quality of services.
- Tenacity to dive deep into complex issues, identifying root causes and resolving them.
Benefits
- Medical/Dental/Vision/Life, AD&D insurance.
- Flexible Spending Accounts (FSA) & Health Savings Accounts (HSA).
- Long-term/Short-term Disability.
- Employee Assistance Program (EAP) program.
- 401K Plan with Company Match.
- 18-21 days of Paid Time Off (PTO) a year based on tenure.
- 12 Public Holidays.
- Paid Parental leave.
- Pre-tax commuter benefits.
