Staff Database Engineer (Customer Success)

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Seoul, South KoreaPosted today

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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

Streamline database operations and code generation using AI-based automation processes
Operate and manage Amazon Aurora MySQL and Aurora PostgreSQL clusters in production
Perform database maintenance including version upgrades,patching,and parameter tuning

What they want

Bring 10+ years of practical experience as a database engineer
Demonstrate 2+ years of AI automation experience in workflows,storage,or code contexts
Bring 5+ years of Amazon Aurora MySQL or Aurora PostgreSQL production operations experience

Nice to have

English communication proficiency for collaboration in a global team environment
Blue/Green Deployment DB upgrade and zero-downtime migration experience
Terraform or CloudFormation infrastructure as code experience in database operations

Seoulstart's read

Visa tier (likely): E-7 specialty / professional (likely)
Korean language: Native Korean fluency required
English friendliness: Medium: English JD, mixed-language workplace
Context: Senior database engineering role at Coupang; rare combination of AI automation plus deep Aurora expertise at 10K+ TPS scale.

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