coupang

Staff Backend Engineer(Infrastructure)

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At a Glance

Location
Singapore; Singapore, Singapore
Experience
12+ years
Posted
2026-07-06T23:30:15-04:00

Key Requirements

Required Skills

AWSJavaKubernetesPythonSpring

Domain Knowledge

  • Engineering

Requirements

8 years+ of experience in backend software development

Experience working in cloud environments, particularly AWS

Demonstrated experience in building and maintaining highly available, distributed systems

12+ years of professional software development experience, specifically building backend infrastructure that supports global-scale traffic.

Proven track record of managing and maintaining systems with 5-6 nines of availability.

Focus on the Customer and the Experience

Responsibilities

As part of our Application Infrastructure org, this is a greenfield team that will impact complex Coupang workflow systems.

We need to create a set of systems that will allow rapid workflow development for hundreds of domain teams, allowing critical infrastructure like rocket delivery service.

It is a highly visible system with hundreds of millions of dollars of revenue flowing through the systems.

It is a chance to design from scratch, and create a reliable workflow service at scale.

We are looking for a Senior/Staff Engineer to lead the architectural design and implementation of our next-generation durable execution platform.

This team is tasked with building a highly scalable, fault-tolerant system from scratch that enables developers to write long-running, reliable workflows as code.