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Sr Staff Software Engineer - Seattle Washington
Company: Coupang Location: Seattle, Washington
Posted On: 01/23/2025
About the Job:Coupang is reimagining the shopping experience with the goal of wowing each customer from the instant they open the Coupang app to the moment an order is delivered to their door.Powered by an outstanding end-to-end e-commerce and logistics network and a fanatical culture of customer centricity, Coupang has broken tradeoffs around speed, selection and price. Today, we provide exceedingly fast shipping speeds on millions of items including fresh groceries, delivered within hours nationwide, 365 days a year.We are doing this for millions of consumers in Korea. Korea is home to one of the largest and fastest growing e-commerce opportunities anywhere in the world.Job Overview:The TSE - Software Engineering team is responsible for Coupang's on-prem and cloud infrastructure for Coupang's internal workload management and microservice ecosystem which scales to thousands of microservices. We are in a process to revolutionize our developer experiences and internal infrastructure by adopting the best technologies available.We are looking for an architect who has a deep understanding of distributed systems, hands-on experience in large scale backend services, Kubernetes, Go-lang, and Java based microservices. You will be responsible for designing the architecture and leading the team to deliver a modern platform that powers all Coupang's internal services and ML platform.What You Will DoAs a Senior Staff Software Engineer, you will partner with leaders of multiple platform teams. You will work closely with the product team to define and implement simple solutions to complex infrastructure problems while ensuring to build a highly scalable, reliable, and efficient platform for our customers. You will technically guide teams working on full stack development teams using JAVA, AWS, Kafka, Kubernetes, Kubeflow, Argo CD, and gRPC. You will be accountable for hiring and developing technical leaders and top talent, raising the bar on engineering and operational excellence.In this role, you will: - 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".
- Envision roadmaps for the scalable and robust growth of Coupang's growing Application infrastructure.
- Align with stakeholders, develop strong developers, and provide technical guidance to engineers on critical projects to resolve complex business problems.
- 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.Qualifications
- Bachelor's degree in computer science or related technical fields.
- 10+ years professional software development experience, or 8 years' experience with an advanced degree.
- 4+ years' experience as a project tech lead.
- Hands-on experience in designing and developing large scale distributed systems in the last 4 years.
- Fluency in one or more of Java, Go, or Python.
- Proven track record of delivering mission critical systems.
- Experience developing and growing senior individual contributors globally.
- Experience with cloud computing using AWS, Azure, or GCP.
- Experience in Machine learning job deployment infrastructure like Argo CD workflow.Preferred Qualifications
- Experience in Kubernetes, gRPC.
- Experience in concurrency, multi-threading, synchronization, and non-blocking IO.
- Deep understanding of operating system kernel and distributed systems such as Kafka, Cassandra, and MongoDB.
- Proficient in some of the ML infrastructure and deployment frameworks like TensorFlow, PyTorch, TensorRT, Triton backend, etc.
- Ability to handle multiple competing priorities in a fast-paced environment and lead the delivery of large-scale services for complex business offerings.
- Ability to influence cross-functional stakeholders, prioritize ruthlessly, aim high, and find a way to deliver results with grit.
- Capable of or fluent in English communication.
- Master's or PhD degree in computer science or other related technical fields.Pay & BenefitsOur 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 $159,000/year in our lowest geographic market to $324,000/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
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