coupang

Staff Backend Engineer (Streaming & AI Infrastructure)

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At a Glance

Location
Seoul, South Korea; z-Test & Templates Only
Experience
6+ years
Posted
2026-05-14T02:20:48-04:00

Key Requirements

Required Skills

AWSAzureCI/CDGCPJavaKubernetes

Domain Knowledge

  • Cloud
  • Engineering

Requirements

6 years of experience in backend software development

Experience working in cloud environments, particularly AWS

Demonstrated experience in building and maintaining highly available, distributed systems

Working knowledge of security protocols such as OIDC and OAuth2

Working knowledge of IAM systems such as identity providers and role based authorization

Experience working with Kubernetes, gRPC and Istio

Responsibilities

As a Staff Engineer on the Security Infrastructure team, you will build the platform that enables Coupang to win and grow our customers’ confidence while rapidly expanding and scaling our services.

Security Infrastructure

team builds core security services and libraries used by all Coupang services to secure themselves and our customers.

Our work supports teams across Coupang and thousands of microservices.

We aim to make Coupang and its products more secure while also making our engineers more productive.

Our responsibilities include building Identity and Access Management (IAM) functionality for our entire ecosystem of vendors, sellers and shoppers.