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Staff, Back-end engineer in USA new

  • Coupang
  • Full time
  • Email
  • Seattle, WA

Responsibilities

  • Design, build, deploy, and maintain core Workflow Platform infrastructure using Temporal, Netflix Conductor, and distributed workflow orchestration systems.
  • Architect and deliver highly scalable, resilient, and high-performance platform services.
  • Benchmark and optimize platform reliability, throughput, latency, and performance using collected metrics and published results.
  • Maintain platform availability and operational excellence 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 and distributed systems in AWS using Java and Spring Framework.
  • Investigate complex system issues, identify root causes, implement preventive measures, and improve operational excellence.
  • Collaborate with engineering teams and stakeholders to build extensible platform capabilities and deliver scalable solutions.
  • Lead, coach, and develop software engineers and guide architecture, implementation, and delivery discussions.

Requirements

  • Bachelor’s degree and 7+ years of total experience.
  • Experience designing, building, deploying, and maintaining distributed workflow orchestration or platform infrastructure.
  • Experience developing and operating backend services and distributed systems in AWS using Java and Spring Framework.
  • Ability to architect scalable, resilient, and high-performance services and optimize reliability, throughput, latency, performance, and cost.
  • Experience with observability, monitoring, alerting, incident management, root-cause analysis, and operational excellence.
  • Ability to lead technical design discussions, collaborate with stakeholders, and guide engineering teams through delivery.
  • Preferred experience leading, coaching, and developing software engineers.
  • Preferred knowledge of Agile software engineering practices, coding standards, code reviews, testing, CI/CD processes, and live-site operations.

Benefits

  • Medical, dental, vision, life, AD&D, disability, flexible spending, and health savings account benefits.
  • Employee Assistance Program, 401(k) plan with company match, paid parental leave, and pre-tax commuter benefits.
  • 18–21 days of paid time off annually based on tenure and 12 paid holidays.
  • Free electric car charging station.

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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