Senior Back-end Engineer (Messaging and Caching Platform)

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Company Introduction We exist to wow our customers. We know we're doing the right thing when we hear our customers say, "How did I ever live without Coupang?" Born out of an obsession to make shopping, eating, and living easier than ever, we are collectively disrupting the multi-billion-dollar commerce industry from the ground up and establishing an unparalleled reputation for being leading and reliable force in South Korean commerce.

We are proud to have the best of both worlds — a startup culture with the resources of a large global public company. This fuels us to continue our growth and launch new services at the speed we have been since our inception. We are all entrepreneurs surrounded by opportunities to drive new initiatives and innovations. At our core, we are bold and ambitious people that like to get our hands dirty and make a hands-on impact. At Coupang, you will see yourself, your colleagues, your team, and the company grow every day.

Our mission to build the future of commerce is real. We push the boundaries of what's possible to solve problems and break traditional tradeoffs. Join Coupang now to create an epic experience in this always-on, high-tech, and hyper-connected world.

Role Overview

As a Backend Engineer in Messaging and Caching Platform (MCP) team, you will be responsible for designing and building solid infrastructure to construct, monitor and manage blaze-fast and consistent platform services. Your core mission is to provide company-wide and generic platform solutions with super high scalability, reliability and availability to unleash the productivity of Customer teams. You will have significant scope, impact and responsibility in shaping the future of Coupang platform services. You will be working in a friendly, synergistic, passionate and sharp team.

What You Will Do

• Architect and build Coupang's Messaging and Caching Platform
• Write durable code with the ability to process tera-bytes and peta-bytes each day.
• Keep improving our platform stability, performance and achieving 99.99% to 99.999% availability with smooth operations.
• Work closely with Coupang internal and external Customers and wow them with our cutting-edging products.

Basic Qualifications

• BS or advanced degree in Computer Science/Engineering, Information Systems or related technical field
• Business level of English
• 5+ years of experience in designing, developing and maintaining large-scale software infrastructures
• Solid (AWS) cloud background on both software development and operations
• Expertise in distributed systems and computing fra