Job Description

Staff Backend Engineer (Streaming Platform) Location 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.

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.

About us The Data Ingestion team in the Data Platform organization provides platforms for ingestion of thousands of data sets from various source systems such as RDBMS, File Stores, No SQL, and Streams into the Data Lake with near real time latencies. The P/SAAS managed by the Data Ingestion team are used company-wide for transferring weblogs, transactional and dimensional data into the Data Lake for consumption in business analytics, data modeling, data science and machine learning projects. The Data Ingestion team supports simultaneous ingestion of 5000+ datasets and billions of rows on daily basis. Our vision is to provide modern self-service tools to enhance engineering productivity, making it easy for anyone to use our data, and build a platform that is consistently scalable and reliable. We are looking for a software engineer who will help create a robust, scalable, and reliable stream processing platform.

Role Overview

As a Backend Engineer in Data Platform org., you will handle the design, development, and maintenance of Stream Processing Platform and help team build modern streaming data pipeline architecture and applications to enable our customers to make fast business decisions. You will need to ensure a reliable and robust platform to deliver correct results on time.

Responsibilities:

• Design and build Coupang's next generation Stream Processing platform.
• Design and build self-serve near real time data transformation framework for company-wide usage.
• As a Backend Engineer, you will take part in business/technical improvement projects from a data platform perspective.
• Engage in design and code review with the team to ensure high quality deliverables and enforce industry best practices.
• Develop best practices and frameworks for unit, functional and integration tests for our team's test coverage and automation.
• Foster, mentor, and enforce industry best practices in data architecture design, design patterns and coding standard.

Basic Qualifications

• BS or advanced degree in Computer Science, or related technical field.
• 8+ years of experience in building software and solutions.
• Experience in one or more programming languages such as Java, Scala, Python, Go or Kotlin.
• Experience in distributed processing using EMR, Spark, Hive, or other big data frameworks.
• Solid fundamentals in OO design, data structures, and algorithms.

Preferred Qualifications

• Experience with Cloud Computing platforms and understanding of scaling and reliability issues.
• Experience in designing, building, and supporting highly scalable backend applications and platforms.
• Experience in Stream-processing systems (Kafka, Storm, Spark-Streaming, Apache Flink or equivalent).
• Experience in big data technologies such as EMR, Hadoop, Spark, Hive, Presto, Redshift, Airbyte, etc.
• Familiarity with workflow or orchestration frameworks, open-source tools like Airflow and Luigi or commercial enterprise tools.
• Knowledge of container services (Docker/Kubernetes) is a plus.

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 $142,000/year in our lowest geographic market to $309,000/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. 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.

Job Tags

Full time, Temporary work, Flexible hours,

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