Senior Backend Engineer - Scalable Distributed Systems

Coupang; Seattle (WA); On-site; USD 174,000 - 299,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

FSA & HSA

Disability insurance

EAP program

401K with company match

PTO 18-21 days

12 paid holidays

Paid parental leave

EV charging station

Job summary

Coupang is seeking an experienced backend engineer to design and build large-scale, distributed services powering our Workflow Platform. You will work on highly available systems, benchmarking, and operational excellence in a fast-paced environment.

You will collaborate with cross-functional teams, leverage AWS, and mentor engineers while driving architectural decisions that impact millions of customers.

Qualifications

• BS in Computer Science or related field.
• 8+ years of backend software development experience.
• Experience building high-availability distributed systems.

Responsibilities

• Design, build, deploy, and maintain core Workflow Platform Infrastructure.
• Benchmark the platform, collect metrics, publish results.
• Ensure reliability and 99.995% uptime of the platform.
• Estimate capacity and provision clusters for workloads.
• Monitor incidents and optimize operational excellence.
• Collaborate across teams to keep platforms open and extensible.

Skills

Backend development

Distributed systems

AWS

Java

Spring

Leadership

Communication

Agile practices

Education

Bachelor's degree in Computer Science or related field

Tools

Temporal

Netflix Conductor

Cassandra

MySQL

Java

Spring

Job description

Coupang is seeking an experienced backend engineer to design and build large-scale, distributed services powering our Workflow Platform. You will work on highly available systems, benchmarking, and operational excellence in a fast-paced environment.

You will collaborate with cross-functional teams, leverage AWS, and mentor engineers while driving architectural decisions that impact millions of customers.