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Location: Hybrid from Mountain View, CA.
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. Powered by an outstanding end-to-end e-commerce and logistics network and a fanatical culture of customer centricity, Coupang has broken tradeoffs around speed, selection and price. Today, we provide exceedingly fast shipping speeds on millions of items including fresh groceries, delivered within hours nationwide, 365 days a year. We are doing this for millions of consumers in Korea. Korea is home to one of the largest and fastest growing e-commerce opportunities anywhere in the world.
Coupang has been added into the 2023 fortune 500 list, a ranking U.S-based companies by revenue. We have been named as one of the ‘50 Smartest Companies in the World’ by MIT Technology Review, and as one of Forbes magazine’s ‘30 Global Game Changers.’ In 2020, we placed second on CNBC’s ‘Disruptor 50’ list.
Overview:
The Platform Services team is responsible for creating platforms that serve the Coupang user requests from all the frontend pages including Search and Category. As the platform team responsible for serving millions of requests from users our mission is to build highly scalable and extensible platform that is also highly availability and robust.
As part of our technology team, you will help architect and implement our next generation serving platform. You will also help the team to bring industry best practices in software development. Additionally, as a senior leader you will help the team to improve their engineering skills to build pioneering e-commerce experience in new global markets. You will also help with designing and building flexible and scalable data processing pipelines to process, store and serve real-time data streams from multiple domains.
Mission:
- Establish a roadmap for the next 5 years for the backend serving infrastructure for Coupang.
- Lead a team deliver an extensible and scalable backend platform to support our growing Customer base and selection
- Deliver the vision of Highly available Serving Architecture.
- Responsibilities
- Build roadmap and vision for platform for Availability, Scalability and Extensibility.
- Build and manage a highly efficient and expert team for building application Archetypes and IAC.
- Drive the highest quality of architecture and design of data pipeline and system.
- Draw a roadmaps and vison for the scalable and robust growth of the platform.
- Collaborate with other search and discovery teams to make the platform open and extensible to unlock innumerable opportunities for innovations.
- Align with stakeholders and lead engineers on mission critical projects.
- Decompose complex problems into simple, straightforward solutions.
- Possess expert knowledge in performance, scalability, and availability of data pipelines.
- Leverage knowledge of internal and industry best practices in design.
- Establish data governance and security best practices.
- Deep-dive and handle critical system issues.
Who we are looking for:
- At least 9+ years of experience working on software design and development in Java, Scala, python.
- Someone who has proven track record of leading teams for delivering mission critical system.
- Strategic thinker and someone who is bar raiser for engineering excellence.
- Exceptional deep dive skills.
- Experience with cloud computing with AWS
- Large system architecture design and development experience
- Experience with Java / IntelliJ / Spring environment
- Bachelor's degree and/or Master's degree in Computer Science or equivalent.
- At least 3+ years for leading an engineering team handling large volume of data.
- Experience with designing, building and deploying scalable, highly available data pipelines
- Preferred
- Experience with Cassandra, Spark and Hbase.
- Ability to work in multicultural, cross functional team
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 $351,000/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
- MTV - [Free] Electric Car Charging Station
General Description of Other Compensation
“Other Compensation” includes, but is not limited to, bonuses, equity, or other forms of compensation that would be offered to the hired applicant in addition to their established salary range or wage scale.
Coupang is an equal opportunity employer. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to actual or perceived race (including traits historically associated with race, including but not limited to hair texture and protective hair styles), color, religion, religious creed (including religious dress and grooming practices), sex or gender (including pregnancy, childbirth, breastfeeding, and medical conditions related to pregnancy, childbirth or breastfeeding), gender identity, gender expression, sexual orientation, ,ancestry, national origin (including language use restrictions), age (40 and over), physical or mental disability, medical condition, genetic information, HIV/AIDS or Hepatitis C status, family status (including but not limited to marital or domestic partnership status), military or veteran status, use of a trained dog guide or service animal, political activities or affiliations, ancestry, citizenship, family and medical leave status, status as a victim of any violent crime, or any other characteristic or class protected by the laws or regulations in the locations where we operate. Coupang is also committed to providing a safe work environment for its employees and its consumers. As a condition of employment, Coupang requires employees to be fully vaccinated against Covid-19, subject to legally required accommodations. If you need assistance and/or a reasonable accommodation in the application of recruiting process due to a disability, please contact us at usrecruiting@coupang.com
Equal Opportunities for All
Coupang is an equal opportunity employer. Our unprecedented success could not be possible without the valuable inputs of our globally diverse team.
Please complete the attached the Internal Transfer Request Form and submit it.
Please make sure you are applying with your Coupang e-mail address.
