Senior Cloud Backend Engineer - Observability & SRE

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

Benefits offered by this job

Medical insurance

Dental insurance

Vision insurance

Life insurance

AD&D insurance

FSAs/HSAs

Disability insurance

Employee Assistance Program (EAP)

401K with company match

Paid PTO and holidays

Parental leave

Pre-tax commuter benefits

EV charging

Job summary

Coupang seeks an experienced SRE-focused backend engineer to strengthen datacenter reliability and scalability. You will implement observability, automate provisioning, monitor performance, and lead post‑mortem analysis to prevent incidents.

You will collaborate with multiple engineering teams, maintain scalable monitoring platforms, and optimize resources while ensuring security and compliance.

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

• Implement SRE best practices to improve reliability, scalability, and performance of datacenter services.
• Develop and maintain automation scripts for infrastructure provisioning, monitoring, and management.
• Conduct root cause analysis and post‑mortem reviews to prevent recurrence of incidents.
• Design, implement, and maintain observability solutions for datacenter infrastructure.
• Create and manage dashboards, alerts, and reports to provide visibility into system health and performance.

Skills

Backend development

Observability

Distributed systems

Cloud (AWS)

Education

Bachelor's degree in CS/EE/Math

Tools

Kubernetes

Docker

Terraform

Prometheus

Grafana

ELK Stack

Job description

Coupang seeks an experienced SRE-focused backend engineer to strengthen datacenter reliability and scalability. You will implement observability, automate provisioning, monitor performance, and lead post‑mortem analysis to prevent incidents.

You will collaborate with multiple engineering teams, maintain scalable monitoring platforms, and optimize resources while ensuring security and compliance.