Senior Staff, Back-end Engineer (Gateway Services)
Core
Designing and evolving Coupang's Service Mesh platform to enable reliable, scalable, and efficient inter-service communication across the company's traffic infrastructure layer.
Role type
Senior Staff Software Engineer (Infrastructure/Platform)
Builds
Enterprise-wide traffic control systems, service discovery, load balancing, and resiliency mechanisms for large-scale distributed systems.
Domain
E-commerce, Cloud Infrastructure, Service Mesh
Deliverable
production ML models | infrastructure
Required skills
Service Mesh technologies (Istio, Envoy), Go/Rust/C++ programming, large-scale distributed systems design, cloud platforms (AWS/Azure/GCP), Kubernetes, traffic management solutions
Preferred skills
Networking fundamentals (VPCs, subnets, routing), microservices architecture, Kubernetes ecosystem tools (ArgoCD, SPIFFE), technical leadership
Technologies
Istio, Envoy, Kubernetes, ArgoCD, SPIFFE, Go, Rust, C++, AWS, Azure, GCP
Responsibilities
Design and implement Service Mesh architecture and fine-grained traffic control systems; Develop and enhance core infrastructure components for traffic management; Build and operate Service Mesh components within Kubernetes environments; Architect workload and service management infrastructure for large-scale distributed systems; Design and implement high-performance infrastructure components; Perform deep root cause analysis of critical system issues; Act as a technical leader and evangelist for Service Mesh best practices
Seniority
Senior Staff, hands-on IC with strategic influence
