Staff Engineer - Cloud Backend Engineering

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

Job summary

Coupang in Bengaluru is seeking a Senior Staff Backend Engineer - Cloud Infrastructure to lead the design, deployment, and optimization of cloud platform services for ultra-high scale. You will drive automation, reliability, and efficiency across AWS/Azure/GCP environments, partnering with global teams to deliver high-availability solutions.

You will mentor engineers, shape platform roadmaps, and implement infrastructure-as-code, monitoring, and security best practices to support

Qualifications

• Extensive cloud platform engineering experience with AWS/Azure/GCP.
• Leadership and design of scalable cloud infrastructure.
• Deep knowledge of IaC, CI/CD, and deployment automation.
• Strong analytical and collaboration skills for multi-team programs.
• Proven ability to achieve high availability and reliability targets.

Responsibilities

• Own cloud infrastructure architecture and platform services for 10X scale.
• Lead end-to-end deployment automation and back-end cloud deployment pipelines.
• Define roadmaps for scalable, reliable cloud services with 99.999% uptime goals.
• Collaborate with engineers and stakeholders on mission-critical projects.
• Analyze performance, optimize network, CDN usage, and security postures.
• Mentor teams and drive best practices across Cloud Platform Engineering.

Skills

Cloud DevOps

CI/CD

IaC

Python

Go

CloudFormation

Terraform

Ansible

GitHub

CircleCI

Jenkins

Infra Automation

Kubernetes

Docker

Linux

AWS

Azure

GCP

CDN

Cloud Security

Monitoring

Automation

Architecture

Education

Bachelor's degree in CS or equivalent

Master's degree in CS or equivalent

15+ years cloud platform engineering experience

Tools

Terraform

CloudFormation

Ansible

GitHub

CircleCI

Jenkins

Docker

Kubernetes

Linux

Job description

As a Senior Staff Backend Engineer - Cloud Infrastructure, this role will focus on Cloud Platform Infrastructure, Services and processes at its best to enhance Cloud infrastructure reliability & system efficiencies, productivity, availability, scalability and system quality at 10X scale. This role will be responsible for diving deep into business problems, understanding current customer pain points, system domain, current Platform limitations (if exists) and then work closely with engineering teams / leaders to design and architect new system / services leveraging cloud infrastructure that can scale 10X better in terms of reliability, availability performance and efficiency. This includes providing system architecture artifacts, accountability on cloud infrastructure choices that can perform and scale at 10X level but are still efficient, guidance on using right machine type, network designs, deployment automation etc . You will be part of a Global team working from different locations but still works as a central connected unit.

Key Skills and Role Responsibilities

• Strong experience on Cloud DevOps tools and coding (CI/CD, IaC, Terraform, Python, Cloud Formation, Ansible, GitHub, CircleCI, Jenkins and Infra Automation)

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

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

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

• Strong working experience on Kubernetes, Docker, Linux and cloud services integrations.

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

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

• Solves complex technical problems in Public Clouds (AWS, Azure, GCP) and Private Cloud environment and improves Operational Excellence.

• 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 infra security.

• 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.

• Possess expert knowledge in performance (sub millisecond latencies), scalability, availability (99.999% uptime), enterprise architecture best practices

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

• Strong problem-solving skills, analytical capabilities, and attention to details

• 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

PreferredQualifications

• Bachelor's degree and/orMaster's degree in Computer Scienceor equivalent with 15+ Years of strong hands-on experience in cloud platform engineering.

• 10+ years of hands-on experience on system engineering, Cloud DevOps and Cloud SRE

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

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

• 10+ year’s of hands-on experience in building high-performance, highly-available and scalable distributed systems in the cloud.

• 7+ year’s of hands-on experience in building and managing high-performance, highly-available and scalable Hybrid Cloud cloud environments .

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

• AWS Certification Advance Architecting, Developing on AWS,

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

• 10+ years of hands-on experience as a Cloud Infra Engineering

• Team leading experience

• Excellent cross-group collaboration and communication skills

Basic Qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree and 7+ years of total experience

• Ability to solve problems through creative thinking and partnerships with other teams

• Ability toattainchallenging targets through goal-setting and personal drive