Staff Backend Software Engineer

About Coupang:   We exist to wow our customers. We know we’re doing the right thing when we hear our customers say, “How did I 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 commerce industry from the ground up. We are one of the fastest-growing retail companies that established an unparalleled reputation for being a leading 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 Coupang Corner Stone team in application infrastructure organization, takes charge of company-wide transaction data storage and common data service layer to materialize e-commerce data for a low latency reading. The Storage and Tools team owns the storage services like Cassandra, Elastic Search, MySQL, Vitess and Clickhouse, providing storage as service through in-house hosted open source technology.

We are looking for software development engineers with Cassandra and Kurbernetes experience. As a Staff Engineer, you are the tech expert in the team taking charge of system design, implementation, daily operation and guiding the internal team to use our storage services of storage services.

Key responsibilities:

· Hand on to develop the features to enhance the system availability, disaster recovery and performance enhancement

· Dive deep into the system and fix complex technical problems.

· Participate in the daily system operation to address system issues and answer the customer questions.

· Identify the system reliability and performance issue and propose solutions applying best industry practice.

· Work with the team manager to define the tech and project road map.

· Collaborate with other Coupang tech teams to make the service extensible to support business growth

· Drive communication up to Principal Engineer and Senior director level.

· Advocate engineer excellence and operation excellence with the team

· Hire and develop team members with knowledge sharing and high-quality interviews.

Qualifications:

· Bachelor’s degree in computer science, Engineering, or related field

· Master on Cassandra or Kubernetes configuration, operation and enhancement

· Familiar with AWS technology

· Solid system and code debugging skills

· Deep understanding in service availability, scalability, and latency.

· Excellent communication skills in English including verbal and written

· At least 6+ years working experience on software design & development experience on distributed system and experience developing large scale enterprise

 

Pay & Benefits Our compensation reflects the cost of labor 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 $171,000/year in our lowest geographic market to $351,000/year in our highest geographic market. Pay is based on several factors, including market location, and may vary depending on job-related knowledge, skills, and experience. General Description of All Benefits

• Medical/Dental/Vision/Life, AD&D insurance
• Flexible Spending Accounts (FSA) & Health Savings Accounts (HSA)
• Long-term/Short-term Disability
• Employee Assistance Program (EAP) program
• 401K Plan with Company Match
• 18-21 days of Paid Time Off (PTO) a year based on tenure
• 12 Public Holidays
• Paid Parental leave
• Pre-tax commuter benefits

General Description of Other Compensation “Other Compensation” includes, but is not limited to, bonuses, equity, or other forms of compensation offered to the hired applicant in addition to their established salary range or wage scale.   Equal Opportunities for All Coupang is an equal opportunity employer. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to actual or perceived race (including traits historically associated with race, including b