Senior Back End Engineer (Global Mobility & Business Travel)
Coupang · Seoul, South Korea
Posted 29 days ago
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Is this posting real?
- This role has been open
- 29 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 Senior Back End Engineer will design and own Coupang's Global Mobility data infrastructure, focusing on creating a greenfield AWS Data Lake architecture. This role involves consolidating ETL pipelines, building multi-country logic for operations, and ensuring data quality and compliance while collaborating closely with the Director of Product Management.
- benefits
- 1/5
- freshness
- 4/5
- 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
- Proven track record designing, building, and operating complex systems end-to-end
- 3+ years of production software engineering experience with deep Python or Java expertise
- Strong AWS infrastructure skills (EC2, RDS, S3, Lambda, Glue) and database design
- 1+ years of ETL/ELT pipeline design and orchestration experience
- Strong partnership skills with PMs and cross-functional teams
- Understanding of data governance and privacy standards
Nice to have
- Prior experience handling sensitive Personally Identifiable Information (PII)
- Experience with Coupang tech stack or multi-region system deployments
- Track record of taking technical projects from greenfield to production end-to-end
- Openness to tool-mediated or asynchronous non-English technical communication
Worth weighing
- No salary listed
- Greenfield project may imply higher risk but also greater opportunity for impact
- Short-term urgency for Q3 target may affect long-term architectural decisions
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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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