Staff Software Backend Engineer

Job Overview:  

The Developer platform team is part of Coupang’s Technical Infrastructure organization and is responsible for Coupang’s developer experiences including 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 a Staff Software Engineer to scale our Code Gen infrastructure.   

What You Will Do  
We are looking for someone passionate about scaling developer productivity through technology and automation, with experience leveraging AI/ML to improve software development lifecycle. As a Staff Software Engineer in Developer platform, you will partner with leaders of multiple platform teams. You will work closely with the product team to define and implement simple solutions of complex infrastructure problems while ensuring to build a highly scalable, reliable and efficient platform for our customers. You will technically lead projects working on full stack development teams using JAVA, AWS, Kafka, Kubernetes, gRPC and service mesh. You will be accountable for raising the bar on engineering and operational excellence.

In this role, you will: 

• Shape the future of our Developer Experience strategy 

• Increase developer productivity by using analyzing, designing, and implementing innovative development processes 

• Develop and optimize data pipelines and infrastructure to support machine learning workflows, including large language models (LLMs).

• Decompose complex problems into simple, straightforward solutions, providing mechanisms for the teams to prioritize ruthlessly and “move with urgency”. 

• Solve real customer pain points by applying a deep understanding of system performance, reliability, and developer experience.

• Collaborate with other Coupang tech leaders to make the service extensible to unlock opportunities for innovations. 

Qualifications 

• One who has bachelor’s degree in computer science or related technical fields.  

• One who has 6+ years professional software development experience, or 4 years’ experience with advanced degree.   

• One who has hands-on experience in designing and developing large scale distributed system in the last 3 years.  

• One who is fluent in one or more among C++, Java, Go, Javascript and Typescript.  

• Proven track record of delivering mission critical systems. 

• Experience with cloud computing using AWS or Azure or GCP. 

       
   
Preferred Qualifications  

• Prior experience with large scale ML infrastructure

• Strong understanding of developer productivity tools, framework optimizations, and service quality metrics.

• Extensive experience in designing complex backend systems

• Experience in Kubernetes, gRPC, Spring boot.  

• Experience in concurrency, multi-threading, synchronization, and non-blocking IO.  

• Ability to challenge the existing norms to improve overall systems and processes