Senior Back-end Engineer (Cloud Infrastructure Automation)

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Seoul, South KoreaPosted todayfulltime

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Market pay check

Matched to Computer systems and software professionals

Source: Ministry of Employment and Labor wage information system (wage.go.kr), wage distribution by occupation.

What you'd do

Design,build,and maintain high-performance backend services supporting 10X business scale.
Architect resilient distributed systems and APIs handling massive concurrency with sub-millisecond latencies.
Define technical vision and system architecture leveraging cloud infrastructure for 99.999% availability.

What they want

Bachelor's or Master's degree in Computer Science or equivalent practical experience.
5+ years hands-on backend engineering and large-scale distributed systems in production.
Strong proficiency in Go,Python,Java,or C++.

Seoulstart's read

Visa tier (likely): F-2 / F-4 / F-5 / F-6 holders welcome
Korean language: Korean not required
English friendliness: High: JD in English, foreign-friendly signals
Context: Coupang is a publicly-listed,globally-scaled e-commerce company headquartered in Seoul; senior technical roles typically sponsor F-series visas for foreign talent; strong English-speaking engineering culture mitigates Korean-language barrier.

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