Staff Backend Engineer – Real-Time Ads Data Platform

Coupang, Inc.; Northern (KY); Hybrid; USD 164,000 - 282,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Health insurance

401K Plan with Company Match

PTO 18-21 days per year

Paid Holidays

Parental leave up to 6 weeks

Pre-tax commuter benefits

Job summary

Coupang, Inc. is seeking an experienced backend software engineer for its Ads data platform. You will help build a scalable data engine powering Coupang Ads, handling enrichment, aggregation, attribution, and measurement across vast datasets.

Join a high-performance team delivering scalable, low-latency services in a fast-paced environment, working with AWS, Spark, Kafka, and modern Java/Spring technologies to support dynamic ad delivery at scale.

Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree in CS, EE, Math, or related field.
• 6 years of backend software development experience.
• Experience with AWS and distributed systems.

Responsibilities

• Architect and scale high-throughput data processing pipelines and serving infrastructure for real-time ad delivery.
• Engineer next-generation data platform with self-service capabilities for cross-functional teams.
• Bridge business strategy and technical execution by translating ads logic into distributed system architectures.

Skills

Java

Spring Framework

AWS

Distributed systems

Data pipelines

Real-time services

Scala/Big data experience

Education

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

Tools

Kafka

Spark

Hive

Redis

Job description

Coupang, Inc. is seeking an experienced backend software engineer for its Ads data platform. You will help build a scalable data engine powering Coupang Ads, handling enrichment, aggregation, attribution, and measurement across vast datasets.

Join a high-performance team delivering scalable, low-latency services in a fast-paced environment, working with AWS, Spark, Kafka, and modern Java/Spring technologies to support dynamic ad delivery at scale.