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Sr. Staff Backend Engineer - Cloud Infrastructure

Coupang

Coupang

Software Engineering, Other Engineering
Seattle, WA, USA
Posted on Dec 8, 2024

Key Skills and Role Responsibilities:

· Extensive experience with Cloud DevOps tools and coding (CI/CD, IaaC, Terraform, Terratest, Python, CloudFormation, Ansible, GitHub, CircleCI, Jenkins, Infra Automation).

· Extensive working experience with Kubernetes, Docker, Linux, and cloud services integrations.

· Strong technical analytical & design capability to understand common & shared platforms, web, & services API with underlying data to provide appropriate network, infrastructure recommendations.

· Strong ability to dive deep to understand current cloud infra and systems architecture to provide strategic partnership and improvements on network usage, role management, CDN, domains and cloud infrastructure security.

· Expert knowledge in performance (sub millisecond latencies), scalability, availability (99.99+% uptime), enterprise architecture best practices.

· Self-service code development and end-to-end back cloud deployment automation for application stack.

· Strong problem-solving skills, analytical capabilities, and attention to detail.

· Provide a roadmap and vision for scalable and robust growth for your cloud infrastructure and platform services to enable achieving 99.999% availability.

· 100% accountable for the reliable, scalable, and optimized cloud architecture, design, and platform services.

· Serve as Cloud Engineering expert for Cloud infrastructure Architecture, Design and Deployment and maintenance for highly reliable and scalable applications.

· Solve complex technical problems in Public Clouds (AWS, Azure, GCP) and Private Cloud environment and improve Operational Excellence.

· Analyze complex distributed production deployments and recommend ways to optimize performance and/or automate processes by managing continuous integration servers, utilizing monitoring, and testing tools.

· Identify opportunities to make disruptive improvements in cloud infrastructure usage, operations, and services with high degree of systematic automation.

· Exert technical influence over multiple teams, increasing their productivity and effectiveness by sharing your deep knowledge and experience.

· Provide a roadmap and vision for scalable and robust growth for cloud infrastructure and platform services

· Collaborate with customers, stakeholders, and lead engineers on key mission-critical projects

Qualifications:

· Bachelor's degree and/or Master's degree in Computer Science or equivalent with 15+ Years of strong hands-on experience in cloud platform engineering.

· 8+ years of hands-on experience in system engineering, Cloud DevOps, or Cloud SRE.

· 5+ years of hands-on experience leading system design, architecture leveraging AWS or Azure services

· 7+ years of demonstrable hands-on experience building and operating infrastructure as code (IaC). Comfortable with many flavors of Linux

· 7+ years of hands-on experience in building high-performance, highly available and scalable distributed systems in the cloud.

· 5+ years of hands-on experience in building and managing high-performance, highly available and scalable Hybrid Cloud environments.

· Excellent cross-group collaboration, outstanding verbal, and written communication.

Preferred:

· AWS Certification Advance Architecting, Developing on AWS,

· Strong hands-on experience on automating App stack deployments through IaC using Terraform, Python or Go.

· 7+ years of hands-on experience as a Cloud Infra Engineering