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Sr. Staff Engineer - Rocket Growth

Coupang

Coupang

Sales & Business Development
Posted 6+ months ago

Rocket Growth is Coupang's Fulfillment and Logistics channel, providing sellers best in class experiences to manage and serve their products to its customers.

This Sr. Staff Engineer will lead the engineering and technology strategy, vision, architecture, and design for Rocket Growth's Seller Experience and Growth Engineering Organization. This position will establish backend architecture supporting strategic business decision-making, identify opportunities to improve company-wide architecture and lead transformation in order to improve the value, impact, and experience with Coupang’s software and services.

What You Will Do

As a Senior Staff Software Engineer in Coupang Rocket Growth, you will partner with leaders of multiple business and platform teams. You will work closely with the product team to define and implement simple solutions of complex business and product problems while ensuring to build a highly scalable, reliable and efficient set of services and applications for our customers. You will technically guide teams working on full stack development teams using Java, AWS, Elastic, Kafka, Kubernetes, and Service Oriented Architecture. You will be acfor mentoring and developing technical leaders and top talent, raising the bar on engineering and operational excellence.

In this role, you will:

  • Architect workload and service management infrastructure

  • Hands-on develop critical infrastructure components

  • Decompose complex problems into simple, straightforward solutions, providing mechanisms for the teams to prioritize ruthlessly and “move with urgency”

  • Envision roadmaps for the scalable and robust growth of Coupang’s growing Application infrastructure

  • Align with stakeholders, develop strong developers and provide technical guidance to engineers on critical projects to resolve complex business problems

  • Demonstrate excellence resulting in scalable systems and services with the highest quality architecture and design.Dive deep into critical system issues, proactively addressing similar root causes, and raise the bar on Operational Excellence

  • Collaborate with other Coupang tech leaders to make the service extensible to unlock opportunities for innovations

Basic Qualifications

  • Bachelor’s degree in computer science or related technical fields.

  • 10+ years professional software development experience, or 8 years’ experience with advanced degree

  • 4+ years’ experience of project tech lead

  • Hands-on experience in designing and developing large scale distributed system in the last 4 years.

  • Fluent in one or more among C++, Java and Go

  • Proven track record of delivering mission critical systems

  • Experience developing and growing senior individual contributors globally

  • Experience with cloud computing using AWS or Azure or GCP

Preferred Qualifications

  • Experience in Kubernetes, Envoy proxy and Envoy xDS API, Istio

  • Experience in concurrency, multi-threading, synchronization, and non-blocking IO

  • Experience in CI/CD pipelines, JFrog artifactory, YAML and AWS cloud

  • Ability to handle multiple competing priorities in a fast-paced environment and leading the delivery of large-scale services for complex business offerings

  • Fluent in English Communication, Knowledge of Korean is welcome but not required

  • Masters or PhD degree in Computer Science or other related technical fields

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 usrecruiting@coupang.com