Staff Engineer - Cloud Backend Engineering at Coupang (Bengaluru, India)
Coupang· Bengaluru, India·
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Job description
Key Skills and Role Responsibilities:
- Strong experience on Cloud DevOps tools and coding (CI/CD, IaC, Terraform, Python, Cloud Formation, Ansible, GitHub, CircleCI, Jenkins and Infra Automation)
- Self-service code development and end-to-end back cloud deployment automation for application stack.
- Provide a roadmap and vision for scalable and robust growth for your cloud infrastructure and platform services to enable achieving 99.999% availability.
- Strong technical analytical & design capability to understand common & shared platforms, web, & services API with underlying data to provide appropriate network, infrastructure recommendations
- Strong working experience on 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 and maintenance for highly reliable and scalable applications.
- Solves complex technical problems in Public Clouds (AWS, Azure, GCP) and Private Cloud environment and improves Operational Excellence.
- Strong ability to dive deep to understand current cloud infra and systems architecture to provide strategic partnership and improvements on network usage, role management, CDN, domains and cloud infra security.
- 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 high degree of systematic automation.
- Possess expert knowledge in performance (sub millisecond latencies), scalability, availability (99.999% uptime), 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 details
- Provide a roadmap and vision for scalable and robust growth for cloud infrastructure and platform services
- Collaborate with customers, stakeholders and lead engineers on key mission-critical projects
Preferred Qualifications:
- Bachelor's degree and/or Master's degree in Computer Science or equivalent with 15+ Years of strong hands-on experience in cloud platform engineering.
- 10+ years of hands-on experience on system engineering, Cloud DevOps and Cloud SRE
- 7+ years of hands-on experience leading system design, architecture leveraging AWS or Azure services
- 10+ years of demonstrable hands-on experience building and operating infrastructure as code (IaC). Comfortable with many flavors of Linux
- 10+ year’s of hands-on experience in building high-performance, highly-available and scalable distributed systems in the cloud.
- 7+ year’s of hands-on experience in building and managing high-performance, highly-available and scalable Hybrid Cloud cloud environments .
- Excellent cross-group collaboration, outstanding verbal and written communication.
- AWS Certification Advance Architecting, Developing on AWS,
- Strong hands-on experience on automating App stack deployments through IaC using Terraform, Python or Go.
- 10+ years of hands-on experience as a Cloud Infra Engineering
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Team leading experience
- Excellent cross-group collaboration and communication skills
Basic Qualifications:
- Bachelor’s degree and 7+ years of total experience
- Ability to solve problems through creative thinking and partnerships with other teams
- Ability to attain challenging targets through goal-setting and personal drive
Why work at Coupang
- Culture: "Best of both worlds" — startup energy (fast decision-making, ownership, risk-taking) with the resources of a Fortune 150 company. Flat hierarchy, open culture, and a strong "bias for action" ethos [coupang.jobs].
- Remote/Hybrid/Office Policy: Flexible working hours and work-from-home options are available. Many roles are based in offices (Seattle, Mountain View, Seoul, etc.) with state-of-the-art amenities including cafeterias serving three meals a day, lounge spaces, and coffee/snack bars.
- Benefits:
- Medical insurance for employee and direct family.
- Paid family leave (for celebration or bereavement).
- Learning programs (foreign languages, soft skills).
- Global project opportunities (collaborate with teams across continents).
- Team and company events (games, food, bonding).
- Engineering Culture: High-impact projects — building the commerce infrastructure of the future (large-scale AI, logistics optimization, mobile-first, search & discovery). Emphasizes "Hire and Develop the Best" and "Learn & Iterate" principles.
- Career Growth: Opportunities for internal rotations, upskilling, and taking on entrepreneurial initiatives within a massive scale.