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Staff Software Engineer, Ads Growth

Coupang

Coupang

Software Engineering, Sales & Business Development
Seattle, WA, USA
Posted on Mar 8, 2025

--Description

We exist to wow our customers. We know we’re doing the right thing when we hear our customers say, “How did we ever live without Coupang?” Born out of an obsession to make shopping, eating, and living easier than ever, we’re collectively disrupting the multi-billion-dollar e-commerce industry from the ground up. We are one of the fastest-growing e-commerce companies that established an unparalleled reputation for being a dominant and reliable force in South Korean commerce.

We are proud to have the best of both worlds — a startup culture with the resources of a large global public company. This fuels us to continue our growth and launch new services at the speed we have been since our inception. We are all entrepreneurial surrounded by opportunities to drive new initiatives and innovations. At our core, we are bold and ambitious people that like to get our hands dirty and make a hands-on impact. At Coupang, you will see yourself, your colleagues, your team, and the company grow every day.

Our mission to build the future of commerce is real. We push the boundaries of what’s possible to solve problems and break traditional tradeoffs. Join Coupang now to create an epic experience in this always-on, high-tech, and hyper-connected world.

Role Overview

Ads Growth team is dedicated to enhancing the advertiser experience through cutting-edge advertising recommendations, encompassing budget allocation, ROAS optimization, and beyond. Our goal is to empower advertisers with the most intelligent and insightful recommendations, ensuring maximum impact and effectiveness in their campaigns.

As our Staff Software Engineer for Ads Growth , you will be responsible for designing and developing our large scale recommendation pipeline and low latency service API to support Coupang's fast business growth.You would handle large data volumes in a distributed environment and drive solid design work on large scale Spark data pipelines etc.

Basic Qualifications

Master's degree in Computer Science or Computer Engineering or electrical/electronic engineering, mathematics or equivalent.

5+ years of solid work with fundamental algorithms, system design, and large distributed systems.

5+ years of coding experience in Java, Spark, SQL Hands-on experience in building large scale data infrastructure.

Preferred Experience

Experience with service-oriented architecture and web application/services development Experience working with AWS (Amazon web services).

Experience in building machine learning applications and systems.

Experiences in building systems and applications of advertising/search advertising, search, and recommendation.