Senior Staff Backend Engineer (Service Mesh)
Core
Designing and building Coupang's infrastructure layer for inter-service communication, traffic management, and resiliency in a large-scale e-commerce environment.
Role type
Senior Staff Backend Engineer (Service Mesh)
Builds
Distributed microservices infrastructure, service mesh components, and back-end APIs
Domain
E-commerce / Distributed Systems / Cloud Infrastructure
Deliverable
infrastructure
Required skills
Go, Java, Python, distributed systems design, traffic management, cloud computing (AWS/Azure/GCP)
Preferred skills
Service Mesh (Istio/Envoy), network components (virtual networks, route tables, subnets, gateways), high-performance API design
Technologies
Java SpringBoot, Go, Hibernate, REST, Istio, Envoy, AWS, Azure, GCP
Responsibilities
Develop and implement enterprise-wide fine-grained traffic control; Use a centralized management plane for managing policies and configurations; Secure inter-service communication with mTLS encryption, identity-based authentication, and authorization; Build Service Mesh components; Design and implement back-end APIs using REST/Hibernate using Java SpringBoot and infrastructure components using Go; Architect workload and service management infrastructure; Decompose complex problems into simple, straightforward solutions; Dive deep into critical system issues and proactively address root causes
Seniority
Senior Staff, hands-on IC