Cloud Infrastructure Automation (CIA) Team
Description
We exist to wow our customers. We know we’re doing the right thing when we hear our customers say, “How did we ever live without Coupang?” Born out of an obsession to make shopping, eating, and living easier than ever, we’re collectively disrupting the multi-billion-dollar e-commerce industry from the ground up. We are one of the fastest-growing e-commerce companies that established an unparalleled reputation for being a dominant and reliable force in South Korean commerce.
We are proud to have the best of both worlds — a startup culture with the resources of a large global public company. This fuels us to continue our growth and launch new services at the speed we have been since our inception. We are all entrepreneurial surrounded by opportunities to drive new initiatives and innovations. At our core, we are bold and ambitious people that like to get our hands dirty and make a hands-on impact. At Coupang, you will see yourself, your colleagues, your team, and the company grow every day.
Our mission to build the future of commerce is real. We push the boundaries of what’s possible to solve problems and break traditional tradeoffs. Join Coupang now to create an epic experience in this always-on, high-tech, and hyper-connected world.
Team Mission: "CIA empowers Coupang to move at the speed of innovation by eliminating infrastructure friction. We transform complex cloud and infrastructure challenges into simple, automated solutions that let our Coupang teams focus on what they do best – WOW the customer."
- Mission: We eliminate infrastructure friction so Coupang can innovate at speed
- Vision: Complex becomes simple. Manual becomes automated. Infrastructure headaches are non-existent
- Value Proposition: We transform your infrastructure headaches into competitive advantage
- Invisible Infrastructure: When we do our job well, complexity disappears
- Self-healing Systems: We build systems that fix themselves
- Developer Velocity: We measure success by how fast Coupang developers can ship
Responsibilities
- AWS Controllers for Kubernetes (ACK) Development
- Build and maintain custom AWS Controllers for Kubernetes that automate AWS service provisioning and management
- Develop sophisticated operators that manage complex AWS infrastructure lifecycles through Kubernetes APIs
- Design CRDs that abstract AWS complexity into simple, developer-friendly interfaces
- Optimize ACK controllers for performance, reliability, and cost-effectiveness at scale
- Service Mesh & Cloud-Native Architecture
- Design and implement service mesh solutions for traffic management, security, and observability
- Build automated Envoy proxy configurations and traffic policies
- Implement zero-trust networking with automated certificate management
- Create intelligent traffic routing and load balancing solutions
- Kubernetes Platform Engineering
- Design and automate EKS cluster provisioning, scaling, and lifecycle management
- Build systems that manage applications across multiple Kubernetes clusters and regions
- Create GitOps workflows that enable declarative infrastructure and application management
- Develop custom APIs and admission controllers that enforce policies and best practices
- Developer Experience & Self-Service
- Create simple interfaces that hide AWS complexity from development teams
- Build Kubernetes-native platforms where developers can provision infrastructure through familiar APIs
- Create CLI tools, kubectl plugins, and web interfaces that simplify infrastructure operations
- Build systems that automatically generate and maintain infrastructure documentation
Qualifications
- 4+ years of AWS experience with services like EKS, VPC, IAM, RDS, and load balancers
- Service Mesh experience with Istio, Envoy, or similar technologies
- Container orchestration expertise with Docker, containerd, and Kubernetes networking
- GitOps experience with ArgoCD, Flux, or similar tools
- 7+ years of Kubernetes experience including custom controller and operator development
- AWS Controllers for Kubernetes (ACK) experience or similar controller frameworks
- Kubernetes internals knowledge including API server, etcd, scheduler, and kubelet
- Service mesh architecture experience with multi-cluster and multi-region deployments
- Cloud-native security expertise with SPIFFE/SPIRE, OPA, or Falco
- Mentoring experience with junior engineers and cross-team technical leadership
Preferred Qualifications
- CNCF ecosystem experience with Prometheus, Grafana and other cloud-native tools
- Terraform/Crossplane experience for infrastructure as code
- Helm/Kustomize expertise for Kubernetes application packaging
- Observability experience with distributed tracing and metrics collection
- Multi-cloud experience with GCP, Azure, or hybrid architectures
- Open source contribution to Kubernetes, Istio, or related projects
Technical Stack & Tools
- Kubernetes: EKS 1.31+, Custom Controllers, Operators, CRDs
- AWS Controllers: ACK, AWS Load Balancer Controller, EBS CSI Driver
- Service Mesh: Istio, Envoy, Linkerd
- Languages: Go (primary), Python, Bash
- Infrastructure: Terraform, Crossplane, AWS CDK
- GitOps: ArgoCD, Flux, GitHub Actions
- Observability: Prometheus, Grafana, Jaeger, OpenTelemetry
Key Projects You'll Lead
- Intelligent AWS Resource Management: Build ACK-based controllers that automatically provision, configure, and manage AWS resources based on application requirements and usage patterns.
- Multi-Cluster Service Mesh: Design and implement a service mesh architecture that spans multiple EKS clusters and regions with automated traffic management and security policies.
- Developer Self-Service Platform: Create a Kubernetes-native platform where developers can provision databases, load balancers, and other AWS services through simple YAML manifests.
- Infrastructure Drift Detection & Remediation: Develop systems that automatically detect and remediate infrastructure drift, ensuring declared state matches actual state across all environments.
Recruitment Process and Others
Recruitment Process
- Application Review - Virtual (Phone) Interview - Virtual (Onsite) Interview – Offer
- The exact nature of the recruitment process may vary according to the specific job and may be changed due to scheduling or other circumstances.
- Interview schedules and the results will be informed to the applicant via the e-mail address submitted at the application stage.
Details to Consider
- This job posting may be closed prior to the stated end date for application if all openings are filled.
- Coupang has the right to rescind an offer of employment if a candidate is found to have submitted false information as part of the application process.
- Coupang does not discriminate against disabled applicants or those with veteran status. We are proud to offer equal opportunities for all applicants.
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