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Coupang
Full time
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09/05/2026
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Bengaluru, India

Responsibilities

Lead technically demanding, cross-functional projects involving inventory and promise systems.
Design architectures for new microservices and machine learning pipelines.
Develop scalable, performant, reliable systems using distributed-systems and resilience-engineering practices.
Decompose complex problems into straightforward technical solutions and review complex code for correctness, performance, and reliability.
Set architecture direction, influence multiple teams, and drive cross-team alignment.
Mentor engineers and support career development across the technical community.

Requirements

8+ years of experience designing and operating high-scale distributed systems with strict latency and reliability requirements.
Expert hands-on coding ability in Java or a similar language for backend systems at scale.
Deep understanding of API design, concurrency, data modeling, caching, messaging, and service-to-service communication using gRPC and REST.
Experience with production systems handling high QPS, large data volumes, or Tier-1 SLAs; Kafka-based event-driven architectures; and multi-region systems.
Experience with circuit breakers, retry strategies, load testing, capacity planning, and graceful degradation.
Demonstrated technical leadership, architecture ownership, cross-team alignment, and mentoring of senior engineers.
Preferred experience in e-commerce, fulfillment, supply chain, logistics, inventory, order management, or planning systems.
Preferred experience with CPLEX, OR-Tools, decision engines, constraint programming, or production systems integrated with data science.
Preferred experience with AI-assisted development tools such as Cursor, Copilot, Devin, or Claude Code.
Preferred experience with specification-driven development using OpenAPI, Swagger, Protocol Buffers, API-first design, or contract-first development.

Benefits

Hybrid work model requiring at least 3 days in the office per week, with flexibility to work from home 2 days per week depending on role requirements.

Coupang

Coupang is a technology and Fortune 150 company listed on the New York Stock Exchange (NYSE: CPNG) that provides retail, restaurant delivery, video streaming, and fintech services to customers around the world under brands that include Coupang, Eats, Play, Rocket Now, and Farfetch.

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