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Sr. Director, Back-End Engineering

Coupang · Seoul, South Korea

Posted 24 days ago

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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 Site Reliability Engineering will lead the development and execution of a comprehensive strategy for reliability, resilience, and operational excellence across Coupang's technology platform. This role involves setting a multi-year vision, defining engineering standards, and building a world-class SRE organization while collaborating with various departments to align reliability investments with business priorities. The successful candidate will also focus on improving incident management, disaster recovery, and capacity management, ensuring that reliability practices are integrated into all aspects of the company's operations.

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

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

  • 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 in the posting.
  • The role requires a high level of experience and leadership, which may limit the candidate pool.
  • The focus on AI-assisted operations and autonomous models suggests a forward-thinking approach, but may also involve navigating complex changes in traditional practices.
  • The responsibilities are extensive and may require significant time and commitment to achieve the outlined goals.

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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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