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Staff, Back-end engineer in USA new

  • Coupang
  • Full time
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  • Seattle, WA

Responsibilities

  • Design, build, deploy, and maintain Workflow Platform infrastructure using Temporal, Netflix Conductor, and other distributed workflow orchestration systems.
  • Architect and deliver scalable, resilient, high-performance platform services and distributed backend systems.
  • Benchmark platform performance, collect metrics, publish results, and improve reliability, throughput, and latency.
  • Maintain platform availability through observability, monitoring, alerting, incident management, and 99.995% uptime objectives.
  • Estimate, provision, and scale infrastructure capacity while optimizing performance and cost efficiency.
  • Develop and operate mission-critical backend services in AWS using Java and Spring Framework.
  • Investigate complex system issues, identify root causes, implement preventive measures, and improve operational excellence.
  • Lead technical design discussions, guide architecture and delivery, collaborate with cross-functional teams, and coach software engineers.

Requirements

  • Bachelor’s degree and 7+ years of total experience.
  • Experience designing, building, deploying, and maintaining distributed workflow orchestration or platform infrastructure.
  • Experience developing backend services and distributed systems in AWS using Java and Spring Framework.
  • Ability to architect highly scalable, resilient, and high-performance services.
  • Experience with performance benchmarking, monitoring, alerting, incident management, and operational excellence.
  • Ability to lead, coach, and develop software engineers and guide technical design and architecture discussions.
  • Strong collaboration and communication skills with engineering teams, business stakeholders, and end users.
  • Experience with software engineering practices including coding standards, code reviews, testing, CI/CD processes, and live-site operations.

Benefits

  • Medical, dental, vision, life, AD&D, disability, employee assistance, FSA, and HSA benefits.
  • 401(k) plan with company match.
  • 18–21 days of paid time off annually based on tenure and 12 paid holidays.
  • Paid parental leave and pre-tax commuter benefits.
  • Free electric vehicle charging station.
  • US position with base pay varying by geographic market; recruitment process includes application review, job-fit interview, focus interview, and offer.

Salary: $162k - $220k/yr

Coupang

Coupang is a technology and Fortune 150 company listed on the New York Stock Exchange (NYSE: CPNG) that provides retail, restaurant delivery, video streaming, and fintech services to customers around the world under brands that include Coupang, Eats, Play, Rocket Now, and Farfetch.

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