Senior Staff Backend Engineer - Platform

In office · Mountain View · $174k – $299kFull-time$174k–$299k2026-10-13 → 2026-11-08

Core

Designing and leading the development of Coupang's internal developer platform, workload management, and microservice ecosystem to support thousands of services.

Role type

Senior Staff Backend Engineer (Platform)

Builds

Internal developer experience platform, workload management systems, and microservice infrastructure

Domain

E-commerce, Platform Engineering, Distributed Systems

Required skills

distributed systems, large-scale backend services, Kubernetes, gRPC, service mesh, architecture design, technical leadership, operational excellence, root cause analysis, system scalability

Preferred skills

CI/CD pipelines, Jfrog Artifactory, YAML, AWS cloud, Spring Boot, concurrency, multi-threading, synchronization, non-blocking IO, OS kernel, Kafka, Cassandra, Spark

Technologies

Java, C++, Go, Javascript, Typescript, AWS, Kafka, Kubernetes, gRPC, Spring Boot, Cassandra, Spark, Jfrog Artifactory

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.