Coupang Internal

Sr. Director, Back-End Engineering

Coupang Internal · Seoul, South Korea

Posted 24 days ago

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This role has been open
24 days
Coupang Internal's roles stay open a median of 42 days
Reposted
No
Salary listed
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Ghost-job risk at Coupang Internal
low
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Hiring momentum
741 roles opened in the last 90 days
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Last confirmed on the employer's board
2026-09-17

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About this role

The Sr. Director of Site Reliability Engineering will lead the company's efforts in enhancing reliability, resilience, and operational excellence across its technology platform. This role involves setting a multi-year vision, defining SRE strategies, and building a world-class SRE organization while partnering with various stakeholders to align reliability investments with business priorities. The successful candidate will also focus on transforming incident management and disaster recovery processes, ensuring that reliability governance is integrated into all operations.

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1/5
freshness
4/5
career value
5/5
role clarity
5/5
pay transparency
0/5

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What you need

  • Leadership experience in a best-in-class SRE, production engineering, infrastructure reliability, or cloud operations organization at a major technology company
  • Experience building an SRE practice comparable in maturity to leading industry organizations
  • Experience with Kubernetes, service mesh, cloud-native platforms, traffic engineering, and large-scale capacity management
  • Experience with chaos engineering, fault injection, regional resilience, and automated disaster recovery
  • Experience building AI-assisted operations, incident intelligence, predictive reliability, or self-healing systems
  • 15+ years of experience in software engineering, infrastructure engineering, distributed systems, or site reliability engineering

Worth weighing

  • No salary listed
  • Role involves significant leadership responsibilities and requires a visionary approach
  • Focus on building a world-class SRE organization may require extensive collaboration across various departments
  • Expectations for measurable improvements in reliability metrics could indicate a high-pressure environment

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