Staff, Back-end engineer (Inventory Platform)

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

Company Introduction

We exist to wow our customers. We know we’re doing the right thing when we hear our customers say, “How did we 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 entrepreneurial 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.

Job Overview

Coupang relies on technology to provide on‑time, fast delivery of products to customers every day. Inventory Platform organization comprises critical services and platforms that take care of delivering customer orders optimally right from the moment the order is placed up until it is successfully delivered at the doorstep of the customer. Building highly available and scalable systems to handle billions of order & delivery transactions and support Coupang’s rapidly growing Product Commerce business is a complex architectural challenge. We are responsible for delivering products to millions of online shopping customers by improving order reconciliation with technology. To deliver this challenge, we are looking for an experienced and passionate engineer who can design and build large‑scale, multi‑tiered, distributed services.

Key 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.

Basic 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.

Preferred Qualifications

• Experience in developing and operating backend services and web applications.
• Experience building complex, high‑performance, and highly available distributed software systems that have been successfully delivered to customers.
• Strong familiarity developing with Java and Spring Framework as well as experience in an AWS environment.
• Extensive experience in managing mission critical services with high throughput and low latency.
• Solid engineering skills as a lead engineer to coach and lead high performing software engineers and keep them motivated.
• Excellent communication skills to shepherd communication with end users, technical & business teams to collect requirements, describe product features, and develop technical designs to achieve business goals.
• Knowledge of Agile software engineering practices & patterns for the full software development lifecycle including coding standards, code reviews, build processes, testing, and live site operations.
• Demonstrated leadership in cross‑functional, highly collaborative environment.

Pay & Benefits

Our compensation reflects the cost of living 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 $164,000/year to $282,000/year. Pay is based on several factors including market location and may vary depending on job‑related knowledge, skills, and experience. A nnual bonus is 0-20% of the base salary.

General Description of All Benefits

• Medical/Dental/Vision/Life, AD&D insurance
• Flexible Spending Accounts (FSA) & Health Savings Account (HSA)
• Long‑term/Short‑term Disability Employee Assistance Program (EAP) program
• 401K Plan with Company Match
• 18-21 days of the Paid Time Off (PTO) a year based on the tenure
• 12 Paid Holidays
• Up to 6 weeks of Paid Parental leave
• Pre‑tax commuter benefits MTV - [Free] Electric Car Charging Station

General Description of Other Compensation

“Other Compensation” includes, but is not limited to, bonuses, equity, or other forms of compensation that would be offered to the hired applicant in addition to their established salary range or wage scale.

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