Staff Back-end Engineer

Company: Coupang
Location: Seattle
Posted on: April 10, 2025

Job Description:

As a Staff Cloud Infra Engineer in the Cloud Platform team, this role will focus on Cloud Platform Infrastructure, Services, and processes at its best to enhance Cloud infrastructure & 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, and current Platform limitations (if exists), and then work closely with engineering teams/leaders to design and architect new systems/services leveraging cloud infrastructure that can scale 10X better in terms of availability, reliability, 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, and guidance on using the right machine type, network designs, etc. You will be part of a Global team working from different locations but still work as a central connected unit.Key Skills and Role Responsibilities:

• Strong experience with Cloud management tools and related programming (Terraform, CI/CD, IaC, DevOps, Terratest, Python, Cloud Formation, Ansible, GitHub, CircleCI, Jenkins, and Infra Automation).
• Provide a roadmap and vision for scalable and robust growth for your cloud infrastructure and platform services.
• Strong technical analytical & design capability to understand common & shared platforms, web, & services API with underlying data to provide appropriate network and infrastructure recommendations.
• Strong working experience with Kubernetes, Docker, Linux, and cloud services integrations.
• 100% accountable for the reliable, scalable, and optimized cloud architecture, design, and platform services.
• Serve as Cloud Engineering for Cloud infrastructure architecture, design, and deployment for highly reliable and scalable applications.
• Solves complex technical problems in Public Clouds (AWS, Azure, GCP) and Private Cloud environments and improves Operational Excellence.
• Strong ability to deep dive to understand current cloud infra and systems architecture to provide strategic partnership and improvements on network usage, role management, CDN, domains, and Hybrid Cloud.
• Analyze complex distributed production deployments and recommend ways to optimize performance and/or automate processes by managing continuous integration servers, utilizing monitoring and testing tools.
• Identify opportunities to make disruptive improvements in cloud infrastructure usage, operations, and services with a high degree of systematic automation.
• Possess expert knowledge in performance (sub-millisecond latencies), scalability, availability (99.99% uptime), and 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 detail.
• Collaborate with stakeholders and lead engineers on key mission-critical projects.Qualifications:
  • Bachelor's degree and/or Master's degree in Computer Science or equivalent.
  • 8+ years of Cloud backend engineering, Cloud Design, Deployment, DevOps.
  • 6+ years of experience leading system design, architecture leveraging AWS and/or Azure/GCP services and Private Cloud.
  • 6+ years of demonstrable experience building and operating infrastructure as code. Infra Automation, Comfortable with many flavors of Linux.
  • 6+ years of experience in building high-performance, highly-available, and scalable distributed systems in the cloud.
  • 10+ years of experience in building and managing high-performance, highly-available, and scalable Hybrid Cloud environments.
  • Excellent cross-group collaboration, outstanding verbal and written communication.Preferred:
    • AWS Certification in Advanced Architecting, Developing on AWS.
    • Strong hands-on experience in automating App stack deployments through IaC using Terraform, Python, or Go.
    • 7+ years of hands-on experience as a Cloud Infra Engineer.
    • Team leading experience.
    • Excellent cross-group collaboration and communication skills.
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