Staff Engineer - Cloud Backend Engineering

Coupang · Bengaluru

  • Senior
  • Full-time
  • Posted 2026-11-05
  • Confirmed live on 10 November 2026

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Job description

Key Skills and Role Responsibilities:

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Strong experience on Cloud DevOps tools and coding (CI/CD, IaC, Terraform, Python, Cloud Formation, Ansible, GitHub, CircleCI, Jenkins and Infra Automation)

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Self-service code development and end-to-end back cloud deployment automation for application stack.

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Provide a roadmap and vision for scalable and robust growth for your cloud infrastructure and platform services to enable achieving 99.999% availability.

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Strong technical analytical & design capability to understand common & shared platforms, web, & services API with underlying data to provide appropriate network, infrastructure recommendations

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Strong working experience on Kubernetes, Docker, Linux and cloud services integrations.

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100% accountable for the reliable, scalable and optimized cloud architecture, design and platform services.

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Serve as Cloud Engineering for Cloud infrastructure Architecture, Design and Deployment and maintenance for highly reliable and scalable applications.

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Solves complex technical problems in Public Clouds (AWS, Azure, GCP) and Private Cloud environment and improves Operational Excellence.

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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.

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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.

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Identify opportunities to make disruptive improvements in cloud infrastructure usage, operations and services with high degree of systematic automation.

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Possess expert knowledge in performance (sub millisecond latencies), scalability, availability (99.999% uptime), enterprise architecture best practices

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Exert technical influence over multiple teams, increasing their productivity and effectiveness by sharing your deep knowledge and experience.

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Strong problem-solving skills, analytical capabilities, and attention to details

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Provide a roadmap and vision for scalable and robust growth for cloud infrastructure and platform services

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Collaborate with customers, stakeholders and lead engineers on key mission-critical projects

Preferred Qualifications:

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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.

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10+ years of hands-on experience on system engineering, Cloud DevOps and Cloud SRE

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7+ years of hands-on experience leading system design, architecture leveraging AWS or Azure services

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10+ years of demonstrable hands-on experience building and operating infrastructure as code (IaC). Comfortable with many flavors of Linux

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10+ year’s of hands-on experience in building high-performance, highly-available and scalable distributed systems in the cloud.

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7+ year’s of hands-on experience in building and managing high-performance, highly-available and scalable Hybrid Cloud cloud environments .

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Excellent cross-group collaboration, outstanding verbal and written communication.

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AWS Certification Advance Architecting, Developing on AWS,

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Strong hands-on experience on automating App stack deployments through IaC using Terraform, Python or Go.

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10+ years of hands-on experience as a Cloud Infra Engineering

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Team leading experience

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Excellent cross-group collaboration and communication skills

Basic Qualifications:

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Bachelor’s degree and 7+ years of total experience   

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Ability to solve problems through creative thinking and partnerships with other teams   

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Ability to attain challenging targets through goal-setting and personal drive   

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