Staff Backend Engineer

We exist to wow our customers. We know we’re doing the right thing when we hear our customers say, “How did I ever live without Coupang?” Born out of an obsession to make shopping, eating, and living easier than ever, we’re collectively disrupting the multi-billion-dollar commerce industry from the ground up. We are an American technology company and one of the fastest-growing retail companies that has established an unparalleled reputation for being a leading and reliable force in global commerce. We are proud to have the best of both worlds — a startup culture with the resources of a large global public company. This fuels us to continue our growth and launch new services at the speed we have been since our inception. We are all entrepreneurial, surrounded by opportunities to drive new initiatives and innovations. At our core, we are bold and ambitious people that like to get our hands dirty and make a hands-on impact. At Coupang, you will see yourself, your colleagues, your team, and the company grow every day. Our mission to build the future of commerce is real. We push the boundaries of what’s possible to solve problems and break traditional tradeoffs. Join Coupang now to create an epic experience in this always-on, high-tech, and hyper-connected world. Role Overview As a Staff Backend Engineer in Messaging and Caching Platform (MCP) team, you will be responsible for designing and building solid infrastructure to construct, monitor and manage blaze-fast and consistent platform services. Your core mission is to provide company-wide and generic platform solutions with super high scalability, reliability and availability to unleash the productivity of Customer teams. You will have significant scope, impact and responsibility in shaping the future of Coupang platform services. You will be working in a friendly, synergistic, passionate and sharp team. Team Description • MCP team develops and supports Coupang company-wide platform services. • MCP team constructs, monitors and manages blaze-fast and consistent platform services. • We provide company-wide and generic platform services with super high scalability, reliability and availability to unleash the productivity of Customer teams. • MCP team has significant scope, impact and responsibility in shaping the future of Coupang platform services. • MCP team is a friendly, synergistic, passionate and sharp team. What You Will Do Architect and build Coupang's Messaging and Caching Platform. Write durable code with the ability to process tera-bytes and peta-bytes each day. Keep improving our platform stability, performance and achieving 99.99% to 99.999% availability with smooth operations. Work closely with Coupang internal and external Customers and wow them with our cutting-edging products. Basic Qualifications Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science/ Engineering, Information Systems, or a related field 5+ years of professional software development experience BS or advanced degree in Computer Science/Engineering, Information Systems or related technical field Solid (AWS) cloud background on both software development and operations Expertise in distributed systems and computing frameworks like Kafka, Spark, etc. Team player and fast learner with the ability to quickly triage and troubleshoot complex problems Strong ownership and be passionate about applying new technologies to real products Preferred Qualifications 8+ years of experience in designing, developing and maintaining large-scale software infrastructures Pay & Benefits Our compensation reflects the cost of labor across several US geographic markets. At Coupang, your base pay is one part of your total compensation. The base pay for this position ranges from $164,000/year in our lowest geographic market to $282,000/year in our highest geographic market. Pay is based on several factors including market location and may vary depending on job-related knowledge, skills, and experience. General Description of All Benefits Annual