Staff Engineer- Cloud Infrastructure

As a Staff Backend Engineer , this role will focus on Cloud Platform Infrastructure, Services, and processes at its best to enhance Cloud infrastructure reliability & system efficiencies, productivity, availability, scalability, and system quality at 10X scale. This role will be responsible for diving deep into business problems, understanding current customer pain points, system domain, current Platform limitations (if exists) and then work closely with engineering teams/leaders to design and architect new system/services leveraging cloud infrastructure that can scale 10X better in terms of reliability, availability performance, and efficiency. This includes providing system architecture artifacts, accountability on cloud infrastructure choices that can perform and scale at 10X level but are still efficient, guidance on using the right machine type, network designs, deployment automation, etc. You will be part of a Global team working from different locations but still works as a central connected unit.

Key Skills and Role Responsibilities:

• Strong experience on Cloud DevOps tools and coding (CI/CD, IaaC, Terraform, Terragrunt, Terratest, Python, Cloud Formation, Ansible, GitHub, CircleCI, Jenkins, and Infra Automation)
• Self-service code development and end-to-end cloud deployment automation for application tech stack.
• Provide a roadmap and vision for scalable and robust growth for 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 AWS 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, Deployment, and maintenance for highly reliable and scalable applications.
• Solves complex technical problems in Public Clouds (AWS and 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 a 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.

Qualifications:

• Bachelor's degree and/or Master's degree in Computer Science or equivalent with 10+ Years of strong hands-on experience in cloud platform engineering.
• 8+ years of hands-on experience in system engineering, Cloud DevOps, and Cloud SRE.
• 5+ years of hands-on experience leading system design, architecture leveraging AWS or Azure services.
• 7+ years of demonstrable hands-on experience building and operating infrastructure as code (Iac). Comfortable with many flavors of Linux.
• 7+ years of hands-on experience in building high-performance, highly-available, and scalable distributed systems in the cloud.
• 5+ years of hands-on experience in building and managing high-performance, highly-available, and scalable Hybrid Cloud environments.
• Excellent cross-group collaboration, outstanding verbal and written communication.

Preferred:

• AWS Certification Advance Architecting, Developing on AWS.
• Strong hands-on experience on automating App stack deployments through IaC using Terraform, Python, or Go.
• 8+ years of hands-on experience as a Cloud Infra and Backend Engineer.
• Excellent cross-group collaboration and communication skills.
• Strong understanding of DBs, App Tech stack running cloud platform.

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.