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Is this posting real?
- This role has been open
- 80 days Coupang's roles stay open a median of 80 days
- Reposted
- No
- Salary listed
- No 1% of Coupang's roles list one
- Ghost-job risk at Coupang
- high 683 stale, 14 reposted of 717 open
- Hiring momentum
- 1065 roles opened in the last 90 days ↑ up vs. the prior 90 days
- Last confirmed on the employer's board
- 2026-10-22
Measured from postings appearing on and disappearing from Coupang's own greenhouse board since 2026-08-03. Full hiring picture for Coupang.
About this role
As a Senior Staff Backend Engineer at Coupang, you will focus on developing distributed systems and data processing pipelines to enhance the e-commerce platform. Your role involves collaborating with engineers across different locations, driving architectural quality, and solving complex problems to improve the user experience for millions. You will also be responsible for aligning with stakeholders and leading critical projects to ensure scalable growth.
- benefits
- 1/5
- freshness
- 1/5
- career value
- 4/5
- role clarity
- 4/5
- pay transparency
- 0/5
Scored from the posting itself — how clearly the role is described, how much it says about pay and benefits, and how recently it was listed. Not a judgement of Coupang as an employer.
What you need
- 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
Worth weighing
- Hybrid work model requires at least 3 days in the office per week
- No specific salary or benefits mentioned in the posting
Summarised from Coupang's posting. Read the full original.
Listed by Coupang on their greenhouse job board, last confirmed open on 2026-10-22. PitchMeAI is not the employer.
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