Staff Backend Engineer: Scale Distributed Systems

Bzpp; United States; On-site; USD 152,000 - 261,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Flexible Spending Accounts (FSA) &

Health Savings Account (HSA)

Disability (Long-term/Short-term)

401K Plan with Company Match

Paid Time Off (PTO)

Job summary

Coupang is seeking a Staff Back-end Engineer to join our Rocket Growth team in the US. You will design and implement scalable, high-throughput systems and own critical backend features in a fast-paced, high-tech environment.

Collaborating with experienced engineers across teams, you will help raise reliability, performance, and usability while mentoring senior engineers and driving architectural decisions for the platform.

Qualifications

• 7+ years of professional software development experience, with focus on large-scale back-end systems and microservices architectures.
• Proven track record of designing, building, and operating high-throughput, low-latency distributed systems in production (handling strict SLAs/SLOs for availability and durability).
• Deep technical mastery in at least one modern back-end language (e.g., Go, Java, Python, C++, or Rust) and strong proficiency with relational (e.g., PostgreSQL, MySQL) and non-relational databases (e.g., Cassandra, Redis, DynamoDB).
• Demonstrated experience establishing architecture paradigms, API standards (REST, gRPC, GraphQL), and technical strategy across multiple engineering teams.
• Hands-on experience with cloud infrastructure (AWS, GCP, or Azure), container orchestration (Kubernetes), and modern CI/CD pipelines.

Skills

Large-scale back-end systems

API design (REST, gRPC, GraphQL)

Distributed systems

Cloud infrastructure

Kubernetes

Tools

Go

Java

Python

C++

Rust

PostgreSQL

MySQL

Cassandra

Redis

DynamoDB

REST

gRPC

GraphQL

AWS

GCP

Azure

Kubernetes

CI/CD

OpenTelemetry

Job description

Coupang is seeking a Staff Back-end Engineer to join our Rocket Growth team in the US. You will design and implement scalable, high-throughput systems and own critical backend features in a fast-paced, high-tech environment.

Collaborating with experienced engineers across teams, you will help raise reliability, performance, and usability while mentoring senior engineers and driving architectural decisions for the platform.