Senior Staff Backend Engineer

USAFull-time$174k2026-10-01 → 2026-11-10

Core

Design and architect scalable cloud infrastructure, platform services, and deployment systems supporting 10X growth and 99.999% availability.

Role type

Senior Staff Backend Engineer (Cloud Infrastructure & Platform)

Builds

Self-service application deployment automation, infrastructure-as-code solutions, and end-to-end cloud operations.

Domain

Cloud Infrastructure, Distributed Systems, DevOps/SRE

Required skills

Cloud architecture, Infrastructure-as-Code, Distributed systems design, AWS/Azure/GCP, Kubernetes, Terraform, Python/Go, Linux, CI/CD, Monitoring, Hybrid-cloud management

Preferred skills

Advanced cloud architecting certification, Team leadership, Cross-group collaboration

Technologies

AWS, Azure, GCP, Terraform, Kubernetes, Docker, Python, Go, Linux

Responsibilities

Design scalable cloud infrastructure and platform services; Build self-service deployment automation; Analyze distributed production deployments for optimization; Develop infrastructure roadmaps and technical vision; Provide architecture artifacts and cloud guidance; Collaborate with engineering teams and stakeholders.

Seniority

Senior Staff, hands-on IC with strategic influence

About Coupang

5000+ Employees

Coupang is at the forefront of the AI and high-performance computing (HPC) revolution. We are building a next-generation cloud platform designed to provide developers, researchers, and enterprises with seamless, scalable, and powerful access to accelerated computing. As the demand for AI, machine learning, and data-intensive workloads skyrockets, we are looking for a visionary product leader to define the future of our core compute offerings.