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Coupang Fulfillment Services · 5 months ago

Sr. Staff, Back-end engineer [Promise Platform]

Seattle, USA

Full-time

Onsite

Senior Level, Lead/Staff

$171K/yr - $351K/yr

10+ years exp

Coupang is a rapidly growing e-commerce company in South Korea dedicated to enhancing customer experiences. They are seeking a Senior Staff Back-end Engineer to lead the architecture design of Fulfillment Optimization systems, ensuring scalability, consistency, and low latency while overcoming technical challenges.

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Responsibilities

Lead and drive architecture design of Fulfillment Optimization systems for scale, consistency, low latency, future extensibility, and reliability

Envision and drive alignment with stakeholders of the appropriate roadmap and future technology direction for Fulfillment Optimization systems

Navigate and alleviate technical obstacles and blockers at the organizational level

Decompose complex problems into simple, straightforward solutions, providing mechanisms for the teams to prioritize ruthlessly and “move with urgency.”

Participate in the architecture, development, testing, deployment, and delivery of large-scale global software applications, systems, platforms, services, or technologies

Write code when necessary to lead by example and help with high-priority projects

Qualification

Backend services developmentArchitecting distributed systemsLow latency systemsComplex event processingAWSJavaData analysisLeadershipCollaborationProblem-solving

Required

10+ years of experience working directly within engineering teams in a fast-moving environment

10+ years of experience in developing and operating backend services and web applications for low latency servicing and messaging systems using complex event processing

10+ years of experience architecting and designing (architecture, design patterns, reliability, and scaling) of new and current systems

Experience building complex, high-performance, highly available distributed software systems successfully delivered to customers

Experience in collaborating with cross-functional teams to define mission, vision, and roadmaps

Experience partnering with product and program management teams

Bachelor, Master or PhD degree in Computer Science, Electronic Engineering, Industrial Engineering, or related discipline with 10+ years of experience with large scale backend distributed systems

Preferred

Experience on creating simulation systems that would simulate outputs coming from Operation research optimization algorithms for data especially for an E-commerce infrastructure

Experience with distributed cache such as Apache Ignite, Redis, etc., with distributed processing of data streams using Spark and Flink

Experience with Kafka, Stream Processing, Complex Event Processing, data synchronization between systems, low latency serving systems, writing real time data into data sinks with high throughput

Experience in building strongly consistent and low latency data synchronization and processing systems

Solid engineering skills as a lead engineer to coach and lead high-performing software engineers and keep them motivated

Demonstrated leadership in a cross-functional, highly collaborative environment

Track record of developing engineers through various career stages and building high-performance teams

Demonstrated focus on continuously improving systems, software, and processes through data analysis and metrics

Able to operate independently and lead through ambiguity in fast-paced environments

Experience with AWS, Java language would be a plus