Staff Back-end Engineer

Company: Coupang
Location: Seattle
Posted on: February 1, 2025

Job Description:

As a Staff Back End Engineer - Cloud Infrastructure, this role will focus on Cloud Platform Infrastructure, Services and processes at its best to enhance Cloud infrastructure reliability & system efficiencies, productivity, availability, scalability and system quality at 10X scale.This role will be responsible for diving deep into business problems, understanding current customer pain points, system domain, current Platform limitations (if exist) and then work closely with engineering teams/leaders to design and architect new system/services leveraging cloud infrastructure that can scale 10X better in terms of reliability, availability performance and efficiency. This includes providing system architecture artifacts, accountability on cloud infrastructure choices that can perform and scale at 10X level but are still efficient, guidance on using right machine type, network designs, deployment automation etc. You will be part of a Global team working from different locations but still work as a central connected unit.Responsibilities

• Strong experience on Cloud DevOps tools and coding (CI/CD, IaaC, Terraform, Terragrunt, Terratest, Python, Cloud Formation, Ansible, GitHub, CircleCI, Jenkins and Infra Automation) Self-service code development and end-to-end cloud deployment automation for application tech stack.
• Provide a roadmap and vision for scalable and robust growth for cloud infrastructure and platform services to enable achieving 99.999% availability.
• Strong technical analytical & design capability to understand common & shared platforms, web, & services API with underlying data to provide appropriate network, infrastructure recommendations.
• Strong working experience on Kubernetes, Docker, Linux and AWS cloud services integrations.
• Serve as Cloud Engineering for Cloud infrastructure Architecture, Design and Deployment and maintenance for highly reliable and scalable applications.
• Solves complex technical problems in Public Clouds (AWS and Azure/GCP) and Private Cloud environment and improves Operational Excellence.
• Strong ability to dive deep to understand current cloud infra and systems architecture to provide strategic partnership and improvements on network usage, role management, CDN, domains and cloud infra security.
• Possess expert knowledge in performance (sub millisecond latencies), scalability, availability (99.999% uptime), enterprise architecture best practices.
• Exert technical influence over multiple teams, increasing their productivity and effectiveness by sharing your deep knowledge and experience.
• Strong problem-solving skills, analytical capabilities, and attention to details.
• Collaborate with customers, stakeholders and lead engineers on key mission-critical projects.Qualifications
  • Bachelor's degree and/or Master's degree in Computer Science or equivalent with 10+ Years of strong hands-on experience in cloud platform engineering.
  • 8+ years of hands-on experience on system engineering, Cloud DevOps and Cloud.
  • SRE 5+ years of hands-on experience leading system design, architecture leveraging AWS or Azure services.
  • 7+ years of hands-on experience in building high-performance, highly-available and scalable distributed systems in the cloud.
  • 5+ years of hands-on experience in building and managing high-performance, highly-available and scalable Hybrid Cloud environment.
  • Excellent cross-group collaboration, outstanding verbal and written communication.Preferred
    • AWS Certification Advance Architecting, Developing AWS.
    • Strong hands-on experience on automating App stack deployments through IaC using Terraform, Python or GO.
    • 8+ years of hands-on experience as a Cloud Infra and Backend Engineering.
    • Excellent cross-group collaboration and communication Skills.
    • Strong understanding of DBs, App Tech stack running cloud platform.Req# R0050449
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