Sr. Staff Software Engineer [Gateway Services, Backend]

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Description

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: 

The Gateway Services team is responsible for building Coupang’s infrastructure layer in a distributed microservices architecture for service-to-service communication including discovery, load balancing, failure recovery, metrics and monitoring. Develop and implement enterprise-wide fine-grained control of traffic behavior with rich routing rules, retries, failovers, and fault injection. Use management plane for managing the policy layer. Manage a pluggable policy layer and configuration API supporting access controls, rate limits and quotas. Secure service-to-service communication in a cluster with TLS encryption, strong identity-based authentication and authorization.

We are looking for an engineer who has deep understanding of app in a distributed system, hands-on experiences in managing, using, Identiy provider, Kubernetes, gRPC and service mesh. You will be responsible for designing the architecture and driving the team to deliver a modern platform that powers all Coupang’s internal services.  

What You Will Do

As a Staff Software Engineer in the Service Mesh’s platform team, you will gather requirements, design, build features to enhance multiple platform teams application traffic routing. You will work closely with the Coupang’s domain teams. Implement simple solutions to solve complex infrastructure problems while ensuring to build a highly scalable, reliable and efficient platform for our customers. You will technically lead projects working on full stack development teams using Istio, Envoy, JAVA, AWS, Kafka, Kubernetes, gRPC and service mesh. You will be accountable for raising the bar on engineering and operational excellence.

In this role, you will:

• Design, build service mesh components while collaborating actively as part of a small, highly talented team.
• Write back-end APIs using REST/GraphQL/Hibernate using the Springboot and python frameworks.
• Architect workload and service management infrastructure.  
• Hands-on develop critical infrastructure components. 
• Decompose complex problems into simple, straightforward solutions, providing mechanisms for the teams to prioritize ruthlessly and “move with urgency”.
• Demonstrate excellence resulting in scalable systems and services with the highest quality architecture and design.
• Dive deep into critical system issues, proactively addressing similar root causes, and raise the bar on Operational Excellence.
• Collaborate with other Coupang tech leaders to make the service extensible to unlock opportunities for innovations.
• Dive deep into critical system issues, proactively addressing similar root causes, and raise the bar on Operational Excellence.
• Collaborate with other Coupang tech leaders to make the service extensible to unlock opportunities for innovations.

Qualifications

• One who has bachelor’s degree in computer science or related technical fields. 
• One who has 8+ years professional software development experience, or 6 years’ experience with advanced degree.  
• One who has 2+ years’ experience of project tech lead. 
• Experience with configuring, maintaining Ide