Staff Engineer - Cloud Backend Engineering
- Level
- Staff
Not stated in the posting: salary, work type, visa.
Open. First seen 5 November 2026.
About the role
Coupang Internal's standard text
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Please make sure to apply with your Coupang e-mail address.
Key Skills and Role Responsibilities:
Strong experience on Cloud DevOps tools and coding (CI/CD, IaC, Terraform, Python, Cloud Formation, Ansible, GitHub, CircleCI, Jenkins and Infra Automation)
Self-service code development and end-to-end back cloud deployment automation for application stack.
Provide a roadmap and vision for scalable and robust growth for your cloud infrastructure and platform services to enable achieving 99.999% availability.
Strong technical analytical & design capability to understand common & shared platforms, web, & services API with underlying data to provide appropriate network, infrastructure recommendations
Strong working experience on Kubernetes, Docker, Linux and cloud services integrations.
100% accountable for the reliable, scalable and optimized cloud architecture, design and platform services.
Serve as Cloud Engineering for Cloud infrastructure Architecture, Design and Deployment and maintenance for highly reliable and scalable applications.
Solves complex technical problems in Public Clouds (AWS, Azure, GCP) and Private Cloud environment and improves Operational Excellence.
Strong ability to dive deep to understand current cloud infra and systems architecture to provide strategic partnership and improvements on network usage, role management, CDN, domains and cloud infra security.
Analyze complex distributed production deployments and recommend ways to optimize performance and/or automate processes by managing continuous integration servers, utilizing monitoring and testing tools.
Identify opportunities to make disruptive improvements in cloud infrastructure usage, operations and services with high degree of systematic automation.
Possess expert knowledge in performance (sub millisecond latencies), scalability, availability (99.999% uptime), enterprise architecture best practices
Exert technical influence over multiple teams, increasing their productivity and effectiveness by sharing your deep knowledge and experience.
Strong problem-solving skills, analytical capabilities, and attention to details
Provide a roadmap and vision for scalable and robust growth for cloud infrastructure and platform services
Collaborate with customers, stakeholders and lead engineers on key mission-critical projects
Preferred Qualifications:
Bachelor's degree and/or Master's degree in Computer Science or equivalent with 15+ Years of strong hands-on experience in cloud platform engineering.
10+ years of hands-on experience on system engineering, Cloud DevOps and Cloud SRE
7+ years of hands-on experience leading system design, architecture leveraging AWS or Azure services
10+ years of demonstrable hands-on experience building and operating infrastructure as code (IaC). Comfortable with many flavors of Linux
10+ year’s of hands-on experience in building high-performance, highly-available and scalable distributed systems in the cloud.
7+ year’s of hands-on experience in building and managing high-performance, highly-available and scalable Hybrid Cloud cloud environments .
Excellent cross-group collaboration, outstanding verbal and written communication.
AWS Certification Advance Architecting, Developing on AWS,
Strong hands-on experience on automating App stack deployments through IaC using Terraform, Python or Go.
10+ years of hands-on experience as a Cloud Infra Engineering
Team leading experience
Excellent cross-group collaboration and communication skills
Basic Qualifications:
Bachelor’s degree and 7+ years of total experience
Ability to solve problems through creative thinking and partnerships with other teams
Ability to attain challenging targets through goal-setting and personal drive
What this role asks for
Standard for backend roles
AWS · CI/CD · Kubernetes · Python
Common in backend postings at any company.
96% of this description is written for the role. The rest is Coupang Internal's standard text, folded away below.
Compared with Coupang Internal's other open jobs.
The team: Tech Infrastructure HIRES STEADILY
This role is one of 5 open in Tech Infrastructure. 4 were posted in the last 30 days and the oldest in August: a team that hires all year rather than one being built.
WHAT THE TEAM WORKS WITH, ACROSS ITS POSTINGS
Kubernetes (4 of 5), Ansible (3 of 5), AWS (3 of 5), Azure (3 of 5), CI/CD (3 of 5), CircleCI (3 of 5), Docker (3 of 5)
OTHER ROLES ON THIS TEAM
- Staff Engineer - Cloud Backend Engineering posted Nov 4
- Staff Engineer - Cloud Backend Engineering posted Nov 4
- Staff Network Engineer [L6] (Global Network Engineering) posted Oct 16
- Sr. Director, Back-End Engineering posted Aug 23
From the team and dates on Coupang Internal's own job board.
Other openings for this role
3 open postings for this role in Bengaluru, first posted 4 November 2026. The company is likely hiring for more than one position. None has been taken down and posted again.
- 5 November 2026 – open (this posting)
- 4 November 2026 – open
- 4 November 2026 – open
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