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Coupang Fulfillment Services · 3 months ago

Staff Backend Engineer, Growth Engineering

Mountain View, USA

Full-time

Onsite

Senior Level, Lead/Staff

$142K/yr - $309K/yr

6+ years exp

Coupang is one of the fastest-growing e-commerce companies, aiming to disrupt the industry by enhancing customer experiences. The Staff Engineer in Growth Engineering will architect and develop a next-generation data platform to integrate and process various data streams, focusing on low-latency processing and user-centric features.

DeliveryLogisticsWarehousing

Responsibilities

Design, develop, and automate large-scale, high-performance streaming data processing systems to drive business growth and enhance product experience

Build scalable data infrastructure and pipelines using best-in-class software engineering practices

Develop optimal data models for storage and retrieval, meeting critical product and business requirements

Ensure the platform supports high availability, reliability, and low-latency

Take full ownership end to end: from solution investigation/benchmark, development to operational health

Establish and execute short and long-term architectural roadmaps

Drive continuous improvement to the efficiency and flexibility of the data, platform, and services while maintaining a high bar for customer trust, performance, and availability

Collaborate with data scientists, machine learning engineers, and other stakeholders to understand data requirements and deliver solutions

Implement data quality and validation processes to ensure the accuracy and consistency of ingested data

Qualification

Data processing systemsSparkFlinkJavaDistributed systemsPythonBig Data TechnologiesAgile environmentFluency in EnglishChinese languageProblem solvingCommunication skillsTeam collaborationCustomer focus

Required

6+ years of professional software development experience

5+ years of experience in data-related products with proficiency in Spark, Flink, Spring, and Java

Experience with open-source frameworks and technologies, like Spring, AWS, APIs, NoSQL, Big Data Technologies (Kafka, Hive, Cassandra, ClickHouse, Apache Flink, Apache Spark, or similar)

Hands on Python experience

Excellent coding skills, with emphasis on data structures, algorithms, problem solving, refactoring, performance improvement and complexity analysis

Distributed systems experience is a must, should be skilled at designing, implementing, and maintaining systems at scale, and working on tradeoffs based on business demand

Taking ownership comes naturally to you and you thrive in an environment where priorities and requirements are not always clear

Comfortable working and learning in an agile, fast-paced environment

Bachelor's degree in computer science or related field

Preferred

Experience taking a leading role in building complex software systems that have been successfully delivered to customers

Experience with internet-scale datasets and feature engineering (feature pipeline and feature store development)

Experience communicating with users, other technical teams and senior management to collect requirements, describe software product features, technical designs and product strategy

Experience influencing software engineering best practices

Hands-on expertise in many disparate technologies, ranging from front-end user interfaces through to back-end systems and all points in between

Experience working backwards from the customer and delivering innovative, simple solutions

Fluency in oral English, and Chinese language is a bonus