Coupang

Sr. Director, Back-End Engineering

Coupang · Seoul, South Korea

Posted 24 days ago

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Is this posting real?

This role has been open
24 days
Coupang's roles stay open a median of 45 days
Reposted
No
Salary listed
No
1% of Coupang's roles list one
Ghost-job risk at Coupang
high
365 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
2026-09-17

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

The Sr. Director of TestOps will lead the development of a testing platform capability at Coupang, focusing on automating and integrating testing processes across various infrastructure and application domains. This role involves setting a vision for testing, building a federated testing platform, and leading a team to enhance testing automation, metrics, and quality assurance practices. The director will collaborate with multiple engineering teams to ensure quality is embedded in the delivery workflows and will drive the adoption of best practices across the organization.

Our read on this posting3.0out of 5
benefits
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 test infrastructure, developer productivity, continuous delivery, or reliability engineering organization at hyperscaler, global consumer platform, or similarly scaled technology company.
  • Experience with Kubernetes, cloud-native testing, service mesh, fault injection, or chaos engineering.
  • Experience building AI-assisted test generation or failure-analysis systems.
  • Experience with load testing, DR validation, release certification, or production-readiness programs.
  • 12+ years of experience in software engineering, test infrastructure, developer productivity, quality engineering, or platform engineering.
  • 5+ years leading engineering teams and managers in a large-scale technology environment.

Worth weighing

  • No salary listed.
  • The role involves significant leadership responsibilities and requires a strong background in both technical and organizational leadership.
  • The focus on AI-assisted testing indicates a forward-thinking approach, but may require candidates to be comfortable with evolving technologies.
  • The position emphasizes building a culture around automated testing, which may differ from traditional manual testing environments.

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Listed by Coupang on their greenhouse job board, last confirmed open on 2026-09-17. PitchMeAI is not the employer.

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