Staff Back-end Engineer

Company: Coupang
Location: Seattle
Posted on: October 31, 2024

Job Description:

Coupang is one of the largest and fastest growing e-commerce platforms on the planet. We are on a mission to revolutionize everyday lives for our customers, employees and partners. We solve problems no one has solved before to create a world where people ask, "How did we ever live without Coupang?" Coupang is a global company with offices in Beijing, Los Angeles, Seattle, Seoul, Shanghai, Silicon Valley, Tokyo and Taipei. Job Overview As part of Coupang's Tech Infrastructure organization, Corner Stone team manages company-wide RDBMS, NoSQL, distributed storage, workflow engine, big table database across all business domains. We are responsible for building highly reliable and scalable storage and database solutions for the company's growing applications and services. In the past few years, we successfully scaled our platform to sustain peak time volume at multi-million QPS (per service), and reliability above 99.99%. As our business continues to grow tremendously, we need to move the platform to the next level of reliability and scalability. We are looking for engineers with solid, hands-on background in large-scale distributed systems, in-depth development experience in one or several modern database systems and workflow engine to fill the role of Senior Staff Engineer. In this role, you will help some of the fast-growing services solve their database/storage scalability and reliability problems. You will also work on architecting and designing extremely highly available (99.999%) database systems in distributed and cloud environment. If you feel passionate about building massive online database systems that can scale to hundreds of nodes to serve 10s of millions of TPS, you share the same passion with us, and we welcome you reach out to us. What You Will Do:

• Architect and design storage subsystem for mission critical services with extremely high availability.
• Design software solutions such as storage/database SDKs and custom libraries to solve complex business problems.
• Collaborate with and influence various teams and organizations across the company on design principles of large-scale storage systems.
• Organize and drive architecture and design review on database/storage subsystems.
• Explore and recommend technologies to solve storage/database reliability and scalability problems in various business domains.
• Help develop Storage Platform's roadmap and strategy.
• Be hands-on and lead the development of next generation in-house storage solution.
• Provide technical leadership and mentorship to other engineers on the team. Qualifications:
  • 6+ years of software development experience
  • Solid software development background in large scale, mission critical systems.
  • Programming with objective oriented language like Java, understand Go language is a plus
  • Solid experience on AWS cloud services
  • Has strong leadership to lead several SDE to complete project E2E
  • Deal with ambiguity and complete the project with an ambiguous business goal
  • Experience with various types of databases (Relational, No-SQL, BigTable, KeyValue).
  • Experience with distributed systems like Kafka, Cassandra, HBase, ElasticSearch, etc.
  • Experience with workflow engine, prefer Temploral.
  • Familiar with performance monitoring, DevOps and SRE concepts.
  • BS in Computer Science, EE, or other engineering fields. MS preferred.
  • Strong verbal and written English 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 $159,000/year in our lowest geographic market to $324,000/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:
    • Medical/Dental/Vision/Life, AD&D insurance
    • Flexible Spending Accounts (FSA) & Health Savings Account (HSA)
    • Long-term/Short-term Disability
    • Employee Assistance Program (EAP) program
    • 401K Plan with Company Match
    • 18-21 days of the Paid Time Off (PTO) a year based on the tenure
    • 12 Public Holidays
    • Paid Parental leave
    • Pre-tax commuter benefits
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