Staff Back-End Engineer, Cloud infrastructure (Cloud Platform - Hybrid)

Company Introduction  

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 entrepreneurs 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. 

Role Overview:

As a Staff Cloud Infra Engineer in Cloud Platform team, this role will focus on Cloud Platform Infrastructure, Services and processes at its best to enhance Cloud infrastructure & system Efficiencies, Productivity, Availability, Scalability and system quality at 10X scale. This role will be responsible for diving deep into business problems, understanding current customer pain points, system domain, current Platform limitations (if exists) and then work closely with engineering teams / leaders to design and architect new system / services leveraging cloud infrastructure that can scale 10X better in terms of availability, reliable, performance and efficiency. This includes providing system architecture artifacts, accountability on cloud infrastructure choices that can perform and scale at 10X level but are still efficient, guidance on using right machine type, network designs etc . You will be part of a Global team working from different locations but still works as a central connected unit.

Key Skills and Role Responsibilities:

• Strong experience on Cloud management tools and related programming (Terraform, CI/CD, IaC, DevOps, Terratest, Python, Cloud Formation, Ansible, GitHub, CircleCI, Jenkins and Infra Automation).
• Provide a roadmap and vision for scalable and robust growth for your cloud infrastructure and platform services
• Strong technical analytical & design capability to understand Common & shared platforms, web, & services API with underlying data to provide appropriate network, infrastructure recommendations
• Strong working experience on Kubernetes, Docker, Linux and cloud services integrations.
• 100% accountable for the reliable, scalable and optimized cloud architecture, design and platform services.
• Serve as Cloud Engineering for Cloud infrastructure Architecture, Design and Deployment for highly reliable and scalable applications.
• Solves complex technical problems in Public Clouds (AWS, Azure, GCP) and Private Cloud environment and improves Operational Excellence
• Strong ability to deep dive to understand current cloud infra and systems architecture to provide strategic partnership and improvements on network usage, role management, CDN, domains, Hybrid Cloud
• Provide a roadmap and vision for scalable and robust growth for your cloud infrastructure and platform services
• Analyze complex distributed production deployments and recommend ways to optimize performance and/or automate processes by managing continuous integration servers, utilizing monitoring and testing tools
• Identify opportunities to make disruptive improvements in cloud infrastructure usage, operations and services with high degree of systematic automation.
• Possess expert knowledge in performance (sub millisecond latencies), scalability, availability (99.99% uptime), enterprise architecture best practices
• Exert technical influence over multiple teams, increasing their productivity and effectiveness by sharing your deep knowledge and experience.
• Strong problem-solving skills, analytical capabilities, and attention to detail
• Provide a roadmap and vision for scalable and robust growth for your cloud infrastructure and platform services
• Collaborate with stakeholders and lead engineers on key mission-critical projects

Basic Qualifications:

• Bachelor's degree and/or Master's degree in Computer Science or equivalent.
• 8+ years of Cloud backend engineering, Cloud Design, Deployment, DevOps
• 6+ years of experience leading system design, architecture leveraging AWS and/or Azure/ GCP services and Private Cloud
• 6+ years of demonstrable building and operating infrastructure as code. Infra Automation, Comfortable with many flavors of Linux
• 6+ year’s of experience in building high-performance, highly-available and scalable distributed systems in the cloud.
• 10+ year’s of experience in building and managing high-performance, highly-available and scalable Hybrid Cloud cloud environments .
• Excellent cross-group collaboration, outstanding verbal and written communication.

Preferred Qualification: 

• AWS Certification Advance Architecting, Developing on AWS,
• Strong hands-on experience on automating App stack deployments through IaC using Terraform, Python or Go.
• 7+ years of hands-on experience as a Cloud Infra Engineering
• Team leading experience
• Excellent cross-group collaboration and communication skills
• Excellent cross-group collaboration and communication

Req# R0053915