Senior Backend Engineer, Inventory Platform - AWS

Coupang; 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

PTO 18-21 days/year

Paid Holidays

Paid Parental leave (up to 6 weeks)

Pre-tax commuter benefits

Job summary

Coupang is seeking an experienced engineer for the Inventory Platform to design and build large-scale, distributed services that support billions of order and delivery transactions. You will ensure high availability, performance, and scalability while collaborating with multiple teams across the organization.

You will lead technical initiatives, mentor engineers, and contribute to open and extensible platform architectures.

Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Electrical Engineering, Math, or a closely related field.
• 8 years of experience in backend software development.
• Experience working in cloud environments, particularly AWS.
• Demonstrated experience in building and maintaining highly available, distributed systems.

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 innumerable opportunities for innovations.

Skills

Java

Spring Framework

AWS

Distributed systems

Leadership

Communication skills

Agile

Education

Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Electrical Engineering, Math, or related field

Job description

Coupang is seeking an experienced engineer for the Inventory Platform to design and build large-scale, distributed services that support billions of order and delivery transactions. You will ensure high availability, performance, and scalability while collaborating with multiple teams across the organization.

You will lead technical initiatives, mentor engineers, and contribute to open and extensible platform architectures.