One of the fastest-growing e-commerce companies disrupting the multi-billion-dollar industry in South Korean commerce.

Coupang, a leading South Korean e-commerce company, is seeking a Staff Backend Engineer specializing in Cloud Infrastructure to join their team in Seattle. This role combines startup culture with the resources of a large global public company. The position focuses on developing and maintaining cloud platform infrastructure at scale, requiring expertise in DevOps tools, cloud services, and distributed systems.

The ideal candidate will be responsible for architecting and implementing cloud solutions that can scale 10X better in terms of reliability, availability, performance, and efficiency. You'll work with a global team to enhance cloud infrastructure, focusing on achieving 99.999% availability while maintaining system quality and productivity.

Key technical requirements include extensive experience with Cloud DevOps tools (CI/CD, IaaC, Terraform), strong knowledge of Kubernetes, Docker, and Linux, and proven expertise in public clouds (AWS, Azure, GCP). The role demands 15+ years of hands-on experience in cloud platform engineering, with specific emphasis on building highly available and scalable distributed systems.

The position offers competitive compensation ranging from $142,000 to $309,000 based on location and experience, along with comprehensive benefits including medical/dental/vision insurance, 401k matching, paid parental leave, and various other perks. This is an excellent opportunity for a senior technical leader to make a significant impact on a rapidly growing e-commerce platform.

Staff Backend Engineer position at Coupang focusing on Cloud Infrastructure, requiring 15+ years experience and offering comprehensive benefits with salary range $142k-$309k.

Staff Backend Engineer - Cloud Infrastructure

A leading South Korean e-commerce company disrupting the multi-billion-dollar commerce industry with innovative shopping, eating, and living solutions.

Coupang, a leading force in South Korean commerce, is seeking a Staff Datacenter Network Engineer to join their innovative team. This role combines the excitement of a startup culture with the resources of a large global public company.

The position requires an experienced professional with 10+ years of expertise in large datacenter networks. You'll be responsible for designing and implementing critical network infrastructure, ensuring high availability, and leading technical solutions for the company's growing operations.

As a Staff Engineer, you'll work with cutting-edge technologies including SDN, routing protocols, and security systems. You'll have the opportunity to make significant impacts on the company's infrastructure while working with stakeholders to understand and meet business needs.

The ideal candidate brings deep technical knowledge in network administration, security, and architecture, along with professional certifications like CCIE or JNCIE. You'll need to demonstrate leadership abilities through mentoring junior team members and working with various IT teams to resolve complex challenges.

Coupang offers an environment where you'll see yourself, your colleagues, and the company grow every day. You'll be part of a mission to build the future of commerce, pushing boundaries and solving complex problems. The company maintains a strong commitment to diversity and equal opportunities, ensuring an inclusive workplace for all team members.

The position is based in Seoul, South Korea, where you'll be at the heart of Coupang's operations. You'll join a company that's proud of its ability to wow customers and make daily life easier through technological innovation. This role offers the unique opportunity to be part of a company that's actively disrupting the multi-billion-dollar commerce industry while maintaining an entrepreneurial spirit.

Staff-level Datacenter Network Engineer position at Coupang, requiring 10+ years of experience in large datacenter networks and infrastructure management.

[Coupang] Staff, Datacenter Network Engineer

Coupang is one of the fastest-growing e-commerce companies with a dominant presence in South Korean commerce, known for its Rocket Delivery service.

Coupang is seeking a Staff Backend Engineer for the Global Inventory and Promise Systems team. This role is crucial in empowering Coupang's Fulfillment & Transportation operations through modern, reliable, and data-driven technologies. The position involves technical leadership in Fulfillment optimization and developing Simulation infrastructure alongside a data-science team.

Key responsibilities include:
- Leading cross-functional projects in fulfillment optimization
- Ensuring high-quality architecture and design of systems
- Mentoring team members and guiding career growth
- Developing complex functions for data transformation
- Growing analytics capabilities with improved data pipelines

The ideal candidate will have:
- 7+ years of software engineering experience, including Java
- Strong understanding of backend scalable software architecture and distributed systems
- Experience with stream-processing systems and data caching
- Knowledge of eCommerce and supply chain optimization

Coupang offers competitive compensation and benefits, including medical/dental/vision insurance, 401K with company match, paid time off, and parental leave. The company is committed to equal opportunity and values diversity in its workforce.

Join Coupang to be part of a startup culture with the resources of a global public company, working on innovative solutions in the e-commerce industry.

Coupang is hiring a Staff Backend Engineer for their Global Ops Tech team to lead fulfillment optimization and simulation infrastructure development.

Staff Backend Engineer (Global Ops Tech)

Coupang is one of the fastest-growing e-commerce companies that established an unparalleled reputation for being a dominant and reliable force in South Korean commerce.

This role is an integral part of Coupang's GTS IT team to support our domestic/global sites. The Staff IT Operations Engineer is responsible for end-user support related to endpoint and infrastructure technology issues, requiring strong organizational skills and attention to detail. The ideal candidate should be a clear communicator who works well across departments within GTS IT and displays strong stakeholder & vendor management skills.

Key Responsibilities:
- Plan and operate IT services, continuously improving and automating high volume daily service tickets through innovative processes and deep analysis
- Improve end-user experience through analysis and innovative solutions
- Operate and provide maintenance support for IT endpoint equipment and devices
- Manage IT assets and report regularly
- Perform continuous process improvements for efficient IT operations
- Work with stakeholders and relevant business teams
- Troubleshoot and monitor LAN/WLAN/WAN activities and utilization
- Resolve basic networking problems and manage incident response tickets
- Identify, report, and resolve poorly performing system issues
- Collaborate with global IT teams to implement/execute change requests and support in-house IT projects

Required Qualifications:
- 12+ years of related work experience
- Experience in IT device operation, configuration, and asset management
- Strong skills in managing end-user service quality and communication with business teams
- Excellent interpersonal, verbal, and written communication skills
- Basic background in network administration and architecture
- Understanding of communication protocols with business teams
- Experience with network diagnostic, monitoring, and analysis tools

Preferred Qualifications:
- Experience in ITIL-based IT service operations or Infrastructure Workplace projects
- PMP-based project experience
- Experience supporting large-scale company and customer service centers
- Knowledge of Windows/Mac-book, Endpoint/MDM security programs, Active Directory, and wired/wireless networks
- Time-conscious, focused, organized, and results-driven approach

This position offers the opportunity to work in a fast-paced, innovative environment at one of South Korea's leading e-commerce companies. The successful candidate will play a crucial role in maintaining and improving IT operations to support Coupang's continued growth and success.

Join Coupang as a Staff IT Operations Engineer to support end-user technology needs, manage IT services, and drive continuous improvement in a fast-paced e-commerce environment.

Staff, IT Operations Engineer (GTS IT)

Coupang is a leading e-commerce company with a startup culture and the resources of a large global public company.

Coupang is seeking a Staff Machine Learning Engineer for their Coupang Media Group (CMG), Ads Quality team. This role involves developing and designing machine learning models, optimization algorithms, and new product features for their advertising platform. The position offers an opportunity to be part of building a new development organization with strong revenue potential inside a successful company.

Key responsibilities include:
- Designing features and building large-scale machine learning models to improve ad targeting, relevance, ranking, and engagement
- Developing new techniques for automated mechanisms like automated bidding and query expansion
- Architecting the machine learning platform at internet scale
- Leading projects across teams and mentoring junior developers
- Working with product and sales teams to implement new ad product features

The ideal candidate will have:
- 10+ years of industry software engineering experience in machine learning, statistics, and information retrieval
- Deep knowledge in machine learning, deep learning, and statistical modeling
- Excellent communication skills for both technical and business audiences
- Strong problem-solving skills and the ability to deal with ambiguity
- Experience with AWS and advertising systems is preferred

Coupang offers competitive compensation and benefits, including:
- Base pay ranging from $142,000 to $309,000 per year, depending on location and experience
- Medical/Dental/Vision/Life insurance
- 401K Plan with Company Match
- 18-21 days of Paid Time Off per year
- Paid Parental leave
- Various other benefits and perks

Join Coupang to be part of an innovative team pushing the boundaries of what's possible in e-commerce and advertising technology.

Staff Machine Learning Engineer role at Coupang, developing ML models and algorithms for advertising platform. 10+ years experience required.

Staff Machine Learning Engineer (CMG Engineering)

Coupang is reimagining the shopping experience with the goal of wowing each customer from the instant they open the Coupang app to the moment an order is delivered to their door.

Coupang is reimagining the shopping experience with the goal of wowing each customer from the instant they open the Coupang app to the moment an order is delivered to their door. As a Staff Software Engineer at Coupang, you will be part of the TW Engineering team, which owns end-to-end TW Coupang core services. This role requires you to work with many domain engineering teams to build ownership on systems, develop tools and processes, and re-platform systems to support global business and improve engineering efficiency.

You will be responsible for identifying underlying risks in the system, establishing strategies and roadmaps for focus areas, and leading the execution with talented engineers to achieve milestones. This includes improving resilience, building necessary tools, monitoring, and creating better testing environments for engineering efficiency.

Key responsibilities include providing leadership and technical direction, being a bar raiser for engineering excellence, prioritizing and planning projects, leading multi-domain projects, refining architecture plans, owning operational metrics, and collaborating with platform teams to improve system resilience and engineering velocity.

The ideal candidate will have a strong background in software development, particularly in large distributed systems and Java, with experience leading engineering teams. You should have a proven track record of creating visions, influencing cross-functionally, and driving technology organizations to meet ambitious goals. Strong communication skills and the ability to work with global distributed teams are essential.

Join Coupang and be part of a team that's revolutionizing e-commerce and logistics in one of the world's fastest-growing markets. Your expertise will contribute to building scalable, resilient systems that support Coupang's mission of delivering wow experiences to millions of customers.

Lead TW Engineering at Coupang as a Staff Software Engineer, driving system resilience and engineering excellence for global e-commerce growth.

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One of the fastest-growing e-commerce companies disrupting the multi-billion-dollar industry in South Korean commerce.