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

The Security Infrastructure development team builds the platform that secures all our services and customer interactions. We aim to make Coupang and its products more secure while also making our engineers more productive. We develop core security services and libraries used throughout Coupang, by dozens of teams and thousands of microservices. Our work covers three major areas: service identity, customer access protection and building a Zero Trust production environment.

As a Senior Staff Engineer, you will drive strategy and execution across the team. Specifically, you will drive our dynamic authorization roadmap. This is a critical component which manages the security risks of our customer interactions by looking for signals of unusual or potentially malicious activity. It helps us protect our customers and ourselves from a wide variety of threats.

You will model excellent communication, collaboration and execution within our team and the larger Technical Infrastructure organization. The successful candidate will be a hands-on technologist who is passionate about delivering business impact through industry-leading technical innovation. You will work with key stakeholders to drive architectural improvements across groups, drive strategic investments and root out inefficiencies. Come join us!

What You Will Do

In this role, you will:

Drive technical strategy, implementation and integration of our platform across multiple teams.
Drive alignment across key stakeholders on strategic roadmap and technical direction.
Partner with teams across the company to proactively identify business and technical opportunities.
Drive execution through technical and organizational complexities, balancing strategic goals and immediate impact.
Write code when necessary to lead by example and help with high priority projects.
Help recruit and develop world-class engineering talent.
Contribute to the Coupang engineering community through cross-company initiatives.
Inspire teams to raise the bar on design, development and Operational Excellence.

Basic Qualifications

Bachelor's degree in computer science or related technical field.
12+ years professional software development experience, or 10+ years experience with advanced degree.
5+ years experience leading technical projects.
Hands-on expertise designing and developing large scale distributed systems.
Recent experience with security, IAM or related technologies.
Proven track record of working across teams to deliver mission critical systems.
Experience handling multiple competing priorities in a fast-paced environment and leading the delivery of large-scale services for complex business offerings.
Deep understanding of Cloud computing platforms, software development practices, CI/CD and operational excellence.

Preferred Qualifications

Masters or PhD degree in computer science or other related technical field.
Hands-on experience building security protocols and/or IAM systems.
Experience working with Infrastructure as Code, Kubernetes, gRPC and Istio.
Fluent communicator in English, Korean or both

Recruitment Process

Application Review -> Phone Interview -> Onsite (or Virtual Onsite) Interview –> Offer
The exact nature of the recruitment process may vary according to the specific job and may be changed due to scheduling or other circumstances.
Interview schedules and the results will be informed to the applicant via the e-mail address submitted at the application stage.

Details to Consider

This job posting may be closed prior to the stated end date for application if all openings are filled.
Coupang has the right to rescind an offer of employment if a candidate is found to have submitted false information as part of the application process.
Those eligible for employment protection (recipients of veteran's benefits, the disabled, etc.) may receive preferential treatment for employment in accordance with applicable laws.
Job titles and responsibilities may be subject to change depending on the candidate's overall experience, etc. This will be communicated to the candidate at the appropriate time before the offer.
Hiring may be restricted in case the legal qualifications required for hiring and work performance is not met.

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Director / Senior Staff Backend Engineer (Security Infrastructure)