Senior Backend Engineer - Inventory Platform

Coupang, Inc.; Seattle (WA); On-site; USD 164,000 - 282,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Medical/Dental/Vision/Life insurance

401K plan with company match

Paid time off 18–21 days per year

Job summary

Coupang, Inc. is seeking an experienced backend software engineer to design and build large-scale, multi-tiered distributed services that support billions of transactions. You will work on the Inventory Platform to enable fast, reliable order processing and delivery.

Required are 8+ years in backend development, strong Java/Spring experience, and deep knowledge of cloud environments (AWS). Collaboration with cross-functional teams and a commitment to operational excellence are essential.

Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Electrical Engineering, Math, or a closely related field.
• 8 years of experience in backend software development.
• Experience in AWS cloud environments.

Responsibilities

• Demonstrate excellence resulting in scalable systems and services with the highest quality architecture and design.
• Responsible for benchmarking the Platform, collecting metrics & publishing results.
• Responsible for measuring & ensuring reliability and uptime of the Platform with 99.995% guarantees.
• Responsible for capacity estimation & provisioning of cluster for different customer workloads.
• Responsible for production incident monitoring & alerting for the Platform.
• Detail oriented and hands on engineer who can analyze OSS Platform components and code.
• Dive deep into critical system issues, proactively addressing similar root causes, and raise the bar on Operational Excellence.
• Exposure to one of the SQL or NoSQL database systems (Cassandra, MySQL, etc.).
• Collaborate with other teams to make the platform open and extensible to unlock opportunities for innovations.

Skills

Backend development

AWS

Java

Spring Framework

Distributed systems

Education

Bachelor's degree in Computer Science / related field

Tools

Cassandra

MySQL

AWS

Job description

Coupang, Inc. is seeking an experienced backend software engineer to design and build large-scale, multi-tiered distributed services that support billions of transactions. You will work on the Inventory Platform to enable fast, reliable order processing and delivery.

Required are 8+ years in backend development, strong Java/Spring experience, and deep knowledge of cloud environments (AWS). Collaboration with cross-functional teams and a commitment to operational excellence are essential.