Sr.Staff Backend Engineer
- Level
- Staff
- Work type
- Hybrid · Hyderabad
Not stated in the posting: salary, visa.
Open. First seen 3 October 2026.
About the role
Company Introduction
We exist to wow our customers. We know we’re doing the right thing when we hear our customers say, “How did we 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 at since our inception. We are all entrepreneurial 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.
Job Overview:
As a Senior Staff Software Engineer, Backend, you will work on distributed systems, and building next generation products. You will help the team to bring industry best practices in software development and operations while improving their engineering skills to build pioneering e-commerce experience in new global markets. Working closely with a group of engineers in multiple geographic locations, you’ll solve challenge problems at scale with high reliability. Your efforts will directly have an impact on tens of millions of users every single day!
Key Responsibilities:
- Drive the highest quality of architecture and design of the system.
- Draw a roadmaps and vision for the scalable and robust growth of the prodcut
- Collaborate with other engineering teams to make the platform open and extensible to unlock innumerable opportunities for innovations.
- Align with stakeholders and lead engineers on mission critical projects.
- Decompose complex problems into simple, straightforward solutions.
- Leverage knowledge of internal and industry best practices in design.
- Deep-dive and handle critical system issues.
- Collaborate with other teams to make the platform open and extensible to unlock
- innumerable opportunities for innovations.
Qualifications:
- Bachelor's degree and/or master’s degree in computer science or equivalent.
- Minimum 12 years of experience working on software design and development in Java,Python.
- Hands-on experience with designing, building, and deploying scalable, high available systems.
- Large system architecture design and development experience.
- Experience with cloud computing with AWS.
- Experience of developing container-based testing environment.
- Experience with Java / IntelliJ / Spring environment.
Type of work model:
· Hybrid - Our Hybrid work model: Coupang hybrid work model is designed to enable a culture of collaboration that acts a catalyst to enrich the experience of employees. Employees are required to work at least 3 days in the office per week, with the flexibility to work from home 3 days a week, depending on the role requirement. Some businesses may require more time in office due to nature of work.
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What this role asks for
Standard for backend roles
AWS · Java · Python
Common in backend postings at any company.
95% of this description is written for the role. The rest is Coupang's standard text, folded away below.
Read against Coupang's other open postings on this site.
The team: Global Operations Technology (Global Ops Tech) HIRES STEADILY
This role is one of 27 open in Global Operations Technology (Global Ops Tech). 6 were posted in the last 30 days and the oldest in May: a team that hires all year rather than one being built.
WHAT THE TEAM WORKS WITH, ACROSS ITS POSTINGS
Java (19 of 27), AWS (17 of 27), Spring (13 of 27), Python (11 of 27), Agile (8 of 27), Kafka (6 of 27), NoSQL (6 of 27)
OTHER ROLES ON THIS TEAM
- Staff, Back-end engineer (Inventory Platform) posted Oct 15
- Director of Engineering, Fulfillment Optimization (Global Operations Technology) posted Oct 7
- Senior Staff, Technical Program Manager posted Oct 6
- Staff Back-end Engineer posted Oct 5
- Staff, Back-end engineer posted Sep 29
- Senior Director,Technical Program Management (SAP Programs) posted Sep 25
- Sr. Staff Back-End Engineer posted Sep 17
- Senior Product Manager posted Sep 17
- Sr. Staff Back-end engineer [Promise Platform] posted Sep 15
- Staff Back-end Engineer (Gowri/Picking) posted Sep 4
- Senior Product Manager II (Last Mile Product) posted Aug 24
- Senior Staff Backend Engineer - Fraud Detection posted Aug 12
- Senior Staff Backend Engineer posted Aug 3
- Staff Backend Engineer posted Jul 31
- Staff System Engineer posted Jul 29
- Technical Program Manager posted Jul 23
- Senior Manager - Backend Engineering posted Jul 21
- Staff Backend Engineer posted Jul 8
- Senior Manager, Back-End Engineering posted Jun 5
- Sr. Staff Backend Software Engineer posted May 29
- Staff, Back-end engineer posted May 28
- Senior Staff Backend Engineer posted May 26
- Sr.Staff Backend Engineer posted May 25
- SAP S/4 HANA Solution Architect posted May 20
- Staff Back-end Engineer posted May 7
- Staff Back-end Engineer posted May 7
From the team and dates on Coupang's own job board.
Other openings for this role
2 open postings for this role in Hyderabad, first posted 3 October 2026. The company is likely hiring for more than one position. None has been taken down and posted again.
- 3 October 2026 – open (this posting)
- 3 October 2026 – open
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