Staff ML Infra Engineer, Search & Discovery

We exist to wow our customers. ” 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 entrepreneurs 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. Role Overview As our Staff Software Engineer, ML infra Engineer for Search Discovery organization, you will be in charge of designing and implementing durable efficient software solutions that handle massive volume of structured and unstructured data needed to train complex ML models and efficiently serve them online.

The Search Discovery organization is responsible for optimizing customers' navigation experience and driving long-term growth. com, more than one third of them make purchases. Over half of the Coupang sales are directly attributed to search and recommendation.

Many business initiatives and growth strategies are driven or boosted by ranking and recommendation. This role is an opportunity to build scalable offline and online ML platforms to support ranking and recommendation, and business decision making. You will be handling billions of records of user interaction data, and petabytes of raw log files, and transforming them into data objects that can be easily consumed by engineers and scientists.

You will also be responsible for serving complex ML models in real time to help millions of Coupang customers search and discover products. If you are passionate about big data engineering and scalable serving systems, you want to make real business impact, and you are a true problem solver, this is the right job for you.

What You Will Do

Proactively drive the execution of end-to-end data platform, data quality roadmap for Search Discovery ML efforts Take ownership, consolidate and optimize the Search Discovery core data logging, processing, and ML model training pipelines Develop and scale data infrastructure that powers batch and real-time data processing, monitoring, and debugging for ML experiments Drive design and implementation of scalable ML based ranking system and online ML inference services Build strong cross-functional partnerships with Data Scientists, Analysts, Product Managers, Indexing Platform Engineers, Ranking Engineers and Data Platform Engineers to understand both the offline and online needs and deliver on those needs Research, analyze and select technical approaches for solving difficult and challenging development and integration problems, coach and mentor other engineers in process and methodologies Basic

Qualifications

Bachelor's degree in computer science, electrical engineering, mathematics, statistics or closely related fields 5 years of professional experience in applied machine learning Experience in machine learning, deep learning, and statistical modeling Proficiency in Python and/or Java, with experience in building production grade ML systems

Preferred Qualifications

Computer science fundamenta