Senior Staff Engineer

Coupang; Bengaluru; On-site; INR 4,000,000 - 7,000,000; Full time

Job summary

Coupang is seeking a Senior Staff Software Engineer for the Gateway Services team in Bengaluru. You will help design the traffic infrastructure layer, focusing on Service Mesh with Istio/Envoy, Kubernetes, and related tools to power Coupang’s services.

You will lead architecture, build scalable components, and drive operational excellence across platform teams, mentoring others as you tackle complex infrastructure problems.

Qualifications

• BS in computer science or related field with strong software fundamentals.
• 12+ years of software development experience with 2+ years in a technical lead role.
• Experience designing traffic management solutions at scale and with Service Mesh.
• Proficient in Go, Rust or C++ and building large distributed systems.

Responsibilities

• Design and drive a modern platform powering Coupang’s services.
• Build and refine Service Mesh components and traffic control features.
• Collaborate with platform leaders to ensure scalable, reliable infrastructure.
• Lead engineering excellence and improve operational practices.
• Prototype and implement workload/service management infrastructure.
• Mentor engineers and promote leadership principles across teams.

Skills

Go

Rust

C++

Istio

Kubernetes

Service Mesh

Education

Bachelor's degree in Computer Science

Tools

Envoy

ArgoCD

SPIFFE

Job description

The Gateway Services team is responsible for building Coupang’s traffic infrastructure layer using Service Mesh. Key aspects of the infrastructure layer include service discovery, load balancing, traffic resiliency, traffic management, failure recovery, and observability paradigms. The job position entails the following:

• Develop and implement enterprise-wide fine-grained traffic control using state-of-the-art technologies (Istio/Envoy, Kubernetes, ArgoCD, SPIFFE)
• Partner for success with cross-functional teams both within the platform organization and with the stakeholder teams to drive results.
• Be an evangelist and thought leader espousing the principles and benefits of traffic management for the wider benefit of the company.

We are looking for a Senior Staff Engineer who has a deep understanding of the interplay of large scale microservices and hands-on experience with Service Mesh. You will be responsible for designing the architecture and driving the team to deliver a modern platform that powers the entirety of Coupang’s services

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As a Senior Staff Software Engineer in the Gateway Services team, you will partner with leaders of multiple Platform teams. You will implement seamless solutions to complex infrastructure problems, building a highly scalable, reliable, and efficient platform for our customers. You will be accountable for raising the bar on engineering and operational excellence. In this role, you will:

• Build Service Mesh components collaborating actively within a small, highly talented tea
• m.Design and implement infrastructure components related to traffic management using Rust/C++/GO
• Architect workload and service management infrastructure by designing and developing critical infrastructure components.
• Decompose complex problems into simple, straightforward solutions following Coupang's leadership principles "Move with Urgency" and "Ruthless Prioritization"
• 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 raising the bar on Operational Excellence
• Collaborate with other Coupang technical leaders to make the service extensible and unlock opportunities for innovations

Qualifications:

• Bachelor’s degree in computer science or related technical field
• 12+ years of professional software development experience with at least 2+ years of experience as a Technical Lead
• Experience in designing and implementing traffic management solutions to handle requests at scale
• Hands-on experience in designing and developing large scale distributed systems, at least the past three years
• Strong experience in designing and implementing Service Mesh (Istio) features
• Excellent development skills in Go/Rust/C++ with a proven track record of delivering mission critical systems
• Experience with cloud computing using AWS or Azure or GCP

Preferred Qualifications

• Deep understanding of network components (virtual networks, route tables, subnets, and gateways)
• Deep understanding of modern web applications design architecture and API design patterns with high performance and scale
• Ability to handle multiple competing priorities in a fast-paced environment and lead the delivery of large-scale services for complex business offerings