Staff Software Engineer – AI Infra & Developer Tools

Coupang; Mountain View (CA); On-site; USD 152,000 - 282,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Medical/Dental/Vision/Life insurance

401K Plan with Company Match

Paid Time Off (PTO) and holidays

Parental leave

Job summary

Coupang in Mountain View, CA, is seeking a Staff Software Engineer to lead design and evolution of large-scale distributed systems within the Resource Fabric Engineering team. You will architect scalable resources, tooling, and observability to support AI workloads across hybrid environments.

You will mentor engineers, drive end-to-end platform initiatives, collaborate with product owners, TPMs, and compliance, and raise the bar on reliability and security in a fast-paced, API-first ecosystem.

Qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Engineering, or related technical field.
• 8 years of professional software development experience, or 6 years with an advanced degree.
• Experience designing, building, and operating large-scale distributed systems in cloud environments.
• Proficiency in Java, Go, or Python and cloud platforms (AWS/Azure/GCP).

Responsibilities

• Design and implement next-generation Resource Manager and AI developer tools.
• Lead design of scalable, event-driven microservices for resource management.
• Build tooling for workflow orchestration, model management, observability, and ops efficiency.
• Mentor junior engineers and contribute to architectural decisions.
• Collaborate with Product owner, TPMs, and Compliance to define ML lifecycle experiences.
• Improve system reliability, performance, monitoring, and incident management.
• Own critical platform initiatives from design through operation and iteration.

Skills

Distributed systems design

Cloud environments

Java/Go/Python

AWS/Azure/GCP

Kafka/Cassandra/ClickHouse

Kubernetes/Docker

gRPC/Spring

RESTful API design

Data governance

Education

Bachelor’s degree in CS/Engineering

Tools

Kafka

Cassandra

ClickHouse

MongoDB

Kubernetes

Docker

gRPC

Spring

Job description

Coupang in Mountain View, CA, is seeking a Staff Software Engineer to lead design and evolution of large-scale distributed systems within the Resource Fabric Engineering team. You will architect scalable resources, tooling, and observability to support AI workloads across hybrid environments.

You will mentor engineers, drive end-to-end platform initiatives, collaborate with product owners, TPMs, and compliance, and raise the bar on reliability and security in a fast-paced, API-first ecosystem.