Senior Staff Backend Engineer - (K8)
Coupang · Bengaluru · 12+ yrs experience · Posted 2026-07-28
Tech stack: AWS, Azure, Cassandra, GCP, Go, Java, Kafka, Kubernetes, MongoDB, Python, Backend
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About the role
Responsibilities:
- As a Senior Staff Backend Engineer you will partner with leaders of multiple platform teams.
- You will work closely with the product team to define and implement simple solutions of complex infrastructure problems while ensuring to build a highly scalable, reliable and efficient platform for our customers.
- You will technically guide teams working on full stack development teams using Java, AWS, Kafka, Kubernetes, Kubeflow, Argo CD and gRPC.
- You will be accountable for hiring and developing technical leaders and top talent, raising the bar on engineering and operational excellence.
- Architect workload and service management infrastructure.
- Hands-on develop critical infrastructure components.
- Decompose complex problems into simple, straightforward solutions, providing mechanisms for the teams to prioritize ruthlessly and "move with urgency".
- Envision roadmaps for the scalable and robust growth of Coupang's growing application infrastructure.
- Align with stakeholders, develop strong developers, and provide technical guidance to engineers on critical projects to resolve complex business problems.
- Demonstrate excellence resulting in scalable systems and services with the highest quality architecture and design.
- Dive deep into critical system issues, proactively address similar root causes, and raise the bar on Operational Excellence.
- Collaborate with other Coupang tech leaders to make the service extensible and unlock opportunities for innovation.
Qualifications:
- 12+ years of professional software development experience.
- Hands-on experience designing and developing large-scale distributed systems within the last 3 years.
- Fluent in one or more of Java, Go or Python.
- Experience with Amazon EKS
- Proven track record of delivering mission-critical systems.
- Experience developing and growing senior individual contributors globally.
- Experience with cloud computing using AWS, Azure, or GCP.
- Experience with machine learning job deployment infrastructure such as Argo CD workflows.
- Hands on experience with Kubernetes and gRPC.
- Deep understanding of operating system kernels and distributed systems such as Kafka, Cassandra, and MongoDB.
- Proficiency with ML infrastructure and deployment frameworks such as TensorFlow, PyTorch, TensorRT, and Triton Backend.
- Hybrid / Onsite / Remote working
Qualifications
- 12+ years of professional software development experience.
- Hands-on experience designing and developing large-scale distributed systems within the last 3 years.
- Fluent in one or more of Java, Go or Python.
- Experience with Amazon EKS
- Proven track record of delivering mission-critical systems.
- Experience developing and growing senior individual contributors globally.
- Experience with cloud computing using AWS, Azure, or GCP.
- Experience with machine learning job deployment infrastructure such as Argo CD workflows.
- Hands on experience with Kubernetes and gRPC.
- Deep understanding of operating system kernels and distributed systems such as Kafka, Cassandra, and MongoDB.
- Proficiency with ML infrastructure and deployment frameworks such as TensorFlow, PyTorch, TensorRT, and Triton Backend.
- Hybrid / Onsite / Remote working
Responsibilities
- As a Senior Staff Backend Engineer you will partner with leaders of multiple platform teams.
- You will work closely with the product team to define and implement simple solutions of complex infrastructure problems while ensuring to build a highly scalable, reliable and efficient platform for our customers.
- You will technically guide teams working on full stack development teams using Java, AWS, Kafka, Kubernetes, Kubeflow, Argo CD and gRPC.
- You will be accountable for hiring and developing technical leaders and top talent, raising the bar on engineering and operational excellence.
- Architect workload and service management infrastructure.
- Hands-on develop critical infrastructure components.
- Decompose complex problems into simple, straightforward solutions, providing mechanisms for the teams to prioritize ruthlessly and "move with urgency".
- Envision roadmaps for the scalable and robust growth of Coupang's growing application infrastructure.
- Align with stakeholders, develop strong developers, and provide technical guidance to engineers on critical projects to resolve complex business problems.
- Demonstrate excellence resulting in scalable systems and services with the highest quality architecture and design.
- Dive deep into critical system issues, proactively address similar root causes, and raise the bar on Operational Excellence.
- Collaborate with other Coupang tech leaders to make the service extensible and unlock opportunities for innovation.