Staff Data Engineer

*location is flexible to Mountain View or Seattle office.

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’re collectively disrupting the multi-billion-dollar e-commerce industry from the ground up. We are one of the fastest-growing e-commerce companies that established an unparalleled reputation for being a dominant 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 Pricing team is one of the core pillars of Coupang’s business and is responsible for helping determine the price of every product sold on Coupang. As the Pricing team is responsible for serving hundreds of millions of requests every day our mission is to build and maintain highly scalable and extensible platforms that is also highly availability and robust.

As a data engineer in the Pricing Engineering Organization, you will help build and maintain our data and analytics infrastructure. Our mission is to provide timely insights into key decisions to help drive the business forward as quickly and efficiently as possible. You will have immense scope to drive impact across the company as a lot of customers within Coupang need pricing signals. You will help the team to bring industry best practices in Data Engineering and operations. Working closely with a group of engineers in multiple geographic locations, you will solve challenging problems at scale with high reliability. Your efforts will directly have an impact on tens of millions of users every single day!

What You Will Do

• Design and build large-scale data processing systems and infrastructure for Pricing systems

• Design and maintain data pipelines and create efficiencies around internal reporting, ensuring data accuracy and timely delivery

• Understand Pricing business logic and be able to translate it into distributed and efficient data processing models

• Contribute to the design and development of our next-generation data processing platform that can support our rapidly growing business for the years to come

• Setup systems to ensure high quality data served to customers internal to Coupang.

Basic Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree in computer science or computer engineering or electrical/electronic engineering, mathematics or equivalent

• 5+ years of solid work with fundamental algorithms, system design, and large-scale distributed system

• 5+ years of coding experience in one of the following: Python, Hive, Presto, Spark, Airflow, EMR and

• Ability to write and understand complex SQL queries

• Self-starter and innovator who likes to solve complex problems

• Proven track record of taking ownership and successfully delivering results

• Ability to communicate with technical and non-technical stakeholders clearly and concisely across all levels of the organization

• Ability to work in multi-cultural, cross functional team

• Experience building highly scalable systems in a fast paced, team-oriented environment

Preferred Qualifications

• Experience with handling large data volumes in a distributed environment

• A passion to explore, improve, automate, and optimize distributed systems and tools

• Ability to think outside-the-box and challenge conventional wisdoms

• Experience with ecommerce technologies and pricing systems.

• Experience working with AWS (Amazon web services)

• Deep understanding of Operational Excellence and what it takes to run and monitor highly available systems

• Ability to work efficiently with teams outside of Pricing working on upstream and downstream dependencies

• Experience setting the culture of a team and ensuring code quality across a team

• A desire to grow those around you both technically and professionally

• Ability to challenge, professionally and respectfully, the existing norms to improve overall systems and processes.

Pay & Benefits

Our compensation reflects the cost of labor across several US geographic markets. At Coupang, your base pay is one part of your total compensation.

The base pay for this position ranges from $138,000/year in our lowest geographic market to $297,000/year in our highest geographic market. Pay is based on several factors including market location and may vary depending on job-related knowledge, skills, and experience.

General Description of All Benefits

• Medical/Dental/Vision/Life, AD&D insurance
• Flexible Spending Accounts (FSA) & Health Savings Account (HSA)
• Long-term/Short-term Disability
• Employee Assistance Program (EAP) program
• 401K Plan with Company Match
• 18-21 days of the Paid Time Off (PTO) a year based on the tenure
• 12 Public Holidays
• Paid Parental leave
• Pre-tax commuter benefits
• MTV - [Free] Electric Car Charging Station

General Description of Other Compensation

“Other Compensation” includes, but is not limited to, bonuses, equity, or other forms of compensation that would be offered to the hired applicant in addition to their established salary range or wage scale.

Coupang is an equal opportunity employer. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to actual or perceived race (including traits historically associated with race, including but not limited to hair texture and protective hair styles), color, religion, religious creed (including religious dress and grooming practices), sex or gender (including pregnancy, childbirth, breastfeeding, and medical conditions related to pregnancy, childbirth or breastfeeding), gender identity, gender expression, sexual orientation, ,ancestry, national origin (including language use restrictions), age (40 and over), physical or mental disability, medical condition, genetic information, HIV/AIDS or Hepatitis C status, family status (including but not limited to marital or domestic partnership status), military or veteran status, use of a trained dog guide or service animal, political activities or affiliations, ancestry, citizenship, family and medical leave status, status as a victim of any violent crime, or any other characteristic or class protected by the laws or regulations in the locations where we operate. Coupang is also committed to providing a safe work environment for its employees and its consumers.

If you need assistance and/or a reasonable accommodation in the application of recruiting process due to a disability, please contact us at usrecruiting@coupang.com .