Senior Staff Software Engineer

Job Description

As a [Senior Staff Software Engineer]/[Staff Software Engineer] in the Gateway Services team, you will partner with leaders of multiple Platform teams. You will implement seamless solutions to complex infrastructure problems, building a highly scalable, reliable, and efficient platform for our customers. You will be accountable for raising the bar on engineering and operational excellence. In this role, you will:

• Build Service Mesh components collaborating actively within a small, highly talented team.
• Design and implement infrastructure components related to traffic management using Rust/C++/Go.
• Architect workload and service management infrastructure by designing and developing critical infrastructure components.
• Decompose complex problems into simple, straightforward solutions following Coupang’s leadership principles “Move with Urgency” and “Ruthless Prioritization”.
• Demonstrate excellence resulting in scalable systems and services with the highest quality architecture and design.
• Dive deep into critical system issues, proactively addressing similar root causes, and raising the bar on Operational Excellence.
• Collaborate with other Coupang technical leaders to make the service extensible and unlock opportunities for innovations.

Qualification

• sBachelor’s degree in computer science or related technical field
• .[12+]/[8+] years of professional software development experience with at least 2+ years of experience as a Technical Lead
• .Experience in designing and implementing traffic management solutions to handle requests at scale
• .Hands-on experience in designing and developing large scale distributed systems, at least the past three years
• .Strong experience in designing and implementing Service Mesh (Istio) features
• .Excellent development skills in Go/Rust/C++ with a proven track record of delivering mission critical systems
• .Experience with cloud computing using AWS or Azure or GCP

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Preferred Qualificatio**

• nsDeep understanding of network components (virtual networks, route tables, subnets, and gateways
• ).Deep understanding of modern web applications design architecture and API design patterns with high performance and scal
• e.Ability to handle multiple competing priorities in a fast-paced environment and lead the delivery of large-scale services for complex business offering

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