Staff Data Engineer

Company: Coupang
Location: Mountain View
Posted on: June 20, 2022

Job Description:

Coupang is reimagining the shopping experience with the goal of wowing each customer from the instant they open the Coupang app to the moment an order is delivered to their door.Powered by an outstanding end-to-end e-commerce and logistics network and a fanatical culture of customer centricity, Coupang has broken tradeoffs around speed, selection, and price. Today, we provide exceedingly fast shipping speeds on millions of items including fresh groceries, delivered within hours nationwide, 365 days a year.We are doing this for millions of consumers in Korea. Korea is home to one of the largest and fastest-growing e-commerce opportunities anywhere in the world.Role OverviewCMG (Coupang Media Group) Analytics is a key component to the growth story of Coupang Ads. We work with all parts of the business including Product, Engineering, Executive leadership, and Sales with a goal of driving user value, improving advertising business performance and help drive key decisions on future direction of the business.We are looking for a passionate data engineer to help build and maintain our data and analytics infrastructure which involves ETL, enrichment, aggregation, attribution, measurement and more and build as well as manage executive reports. Our mission is to provide timely insights to key decisions makes to help drive the business forward as quickly and efficiently as possible. This hire would be the founding member of our data engineering team with immense scope to drive impact.Let's create a world in which customers ask "How did I ever live without Coupang?" together!What You Will Do

• Design and build large-scale data processing systems and infrastructure for Coupang Ads
• Design and maintain data pipelines for Ads and create efficiencies around internal reporting, ensuring data accuracies and timely delivery
• Understand Ads business logic and be able to translate it into distributed and efficient data processing models
• Contribute to the design and development of our next-generation data processing platform that can support our rapidly growing Ads business for the years to comeBasic Qualifications
  • Bachelor's degree in Computer Science or Computer Engineering or electrical/electronic engineering, mathematics or equivalent
  • 5+ years of solid work with fundamental algorithms, system design, and large distributed systems related to Adtech, search, relevance or RTB
  • 5+ years of coding experience in one of the following: Python, Hive, Presto, Spark, Airflow
  • Self-starter and innovator who likes to solve complex problems
  • Proven track record of taking ownership and successfully delivering results
  • Ability to communicate with technical and non-technical stakeholders clearly and concisely across all levels of the organization
  • Ability to work in multi-cultural, cross functional team
  • Experience building highly scalable systems in a fast paced, team-oriented environmentPreferred Qualifications:
    • Experience with handling large data volumes in a distributed environment
    • Ability and desire to drive solid design work on multi-threaded/multi-process, distributed system
    • A passion to explore, improve, automate and optimize distributed systems and tools
    • Ability to think outside-the-box and challenge conventional wisdoms
    • Experience with advertising systems/Search advertising/Advertising Marketplace/Display advertising/Ad Server
    • Experience working with AWS (Amazon web services)
    • Experience working in startups
    • Experience with Spark/Hive/Presto
    • Experience with Python and building data pipelines
    • Ability to work efficiently with teams outside of CMG Analytics working on upstream and downstream dependencies
    • Ability to write and understand complex SQL queriesCoupang is an equal opportunity employer. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to actual or perceived race (including traits historically associated with race, including but not limited to hair texture and protective hairstyles), color, religion, religious creed (including religious dress and grooming practices), sex or gender (including pregnancy, childbirth, breastfeeding, and medical conditions related to pregnancy, childbirth or breastfeeding), gender identity, gender expression, sexual orientation, ancestry, national origin (including language use restrictions), age (40 and over), physical or mental disability, medical condition, genetic information, HIV/AIDS or Hepatitis C status, family status (including but not limited to marital or domestic partnership status), military or veteran status, use of a trained dog guide or service animal, political activities or affiliations, ancestry, citizenship, family and medical leave status, status as a victim of any violent crime, or any other characteristic or class protected by the laws or regulations in the locations where we operate. Coupang is also committed to providing a safe work environment for its employees and consumers. As a condition of employment, Coupang requires employees to be fully vaccinated against Covid-19, subject to legally required accommodations. If you need assistance and reasonable accommodation in the application of recruiting process due to a disability, please get in touch with us at usrecruiting@coupang.com.

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