Senior Staff Backend Engineer - Cloud Infrastructure
Core
Designing and architecting cloud platform infrastructure, services, and processes to enhance reliability, scalability, and efficiency at 10X scale for Coupang's e-commerce operations.
Role type
Senior Staff Backend Engineer (Cloud Infrastructure)
Builds
Cloud infrastructure, platform services, and deployment automation enabling 99.999% availability for Coupang's global e-commerce platform.
Domain
E-commerce / Cloud Infrastructure
Deliverable
infrastructure
Required skills
Cloud DevOps tools, Infrastructure as Code (Terraform, CloudFormation, Ansible), Kubernetes, Docker, Linux, CI/CD pipelines, Python, Public Cloud platforms (AWS, Azure, GCP), distributed systems architecture, performance optimization, network design, CDN management, cloud security, monitoring and testing tools.
Preferred skills
System engineering, Cloud SRE, enterprise architecture best practices, sub-millisecond latency optimization.
Technologies
Terraform, CloudFormation, Ansible, Kubernetes, Docker, Python, AWS, Azure, GCP, CircleCI, Jenkins, GitHub, CDN.
Responsibilities
Design and architect new cloud system/services leveraging infrastructure to scale 10X better; provide roadmap and vision for scalable cloud infrastructure growth; ensure reliable, scalable, and optimized cloud architecture; solve complex technical problems in public and private clouds; analyze distributed production deployments to optimize performance and automate processes; exert technical influence over multiple teams to increase productivity.
Seniority
Senior Staff, hands-on IC with strategic influence