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Coupang Fulfillment Services is seeking a Principal/Senior Staff Database Engineer in Seattle. This role involves designing, optimizing, and automating database infrastructures, requiring significant expertise in MySQL and NoSQL. The candidate will lead migrations, improve operational processes, and collaborate across teams, leveraging a decade of experience in database management.
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Company Introduction
We exist to wow our customers. We know we’re doing the right thing when we hear our customers say, “How did I 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.
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Company Introduction
We exist to wow our customers. We know we’re doing the right thing when we hear our customers say, “How did I 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 entrepreneurs 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.
About The Role
We are looking for passionate engineers with deep experience in MySQL, as well as AWS DMS, RDS, Aurora and other SQL and No-SQL data stores, to help us optimize and automate our infrastructure and deployment processes around our databases. We are currently involved in several types of systems re-architectures. As a Senior Staff/Principal Database Engineer, you will be involved in designing and implementing how we optimize perform those migrations, testing those migrations, and then performing them. In addition, you will have a major role in evolving the infrastructure as code and configuration management. This is a business-facing role, and as such, significant leadership and communication experience is required.
What You'll Do
Infrastructure Automation: Design, implement, and maintain automated infrastructure to ensure consistency and scalability. Strong programming skills in these areas is a must have.
Monitoring and Alerting: Set up monitoring and logging systems to proactively detect and address potential issues, ensuring optimal performance and reliability.
Database Management: Manage tens of Aurora/MySQL databases, including performance tuning, backups, disaster recovery strategies, and their active/passive counterparts in AWS.
Collaboration: Work closely with cross-functional teams, including application team developers, infrastructure teams, TPM's to improve the overall development and deployment processes, and keep everyone in sync as to deliverables and timelines.
Troubleshooting and Incident Management: Assist in identifying and resolving operational issues and participating in on-call rotations.
Skills & Experience
At least 10 years of expertise in database operations with a focus on building and maintaining scalable infrastructures around data.
At least 10 years of working directly with MySQL at a Senior level.
At least 5 years of experience working on NoSQL data stores such as Dynamo DB, etc.
At least 5 years of experience in leadership and communicating with the business.
Strong problem-solving skills and the ability to work in a fast-paced, agile environment.
Solid understanding of AWS-based data management technologies.
Experience with infrastructure as code using Terraform.
Understanding of CI/CD tools.
Understanding of networking concepts such as load balancing and DNS is also a plus.
Knowledge of containerization technologies like Docker and container orchestration tools such as Kubernetes is a plus.
Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Engineering, or related field (or equivalent experience).
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 $184,000/year in our lowest geographic market to $376,000/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.
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