This is a critical role to Coupang Play's Data Platform org. You will build a world-class data platform to power mission critical features such as search, recommendation, and personalization. The team is responsible for developing the platform and the data pipelines for generating all the source data needed to power Coupang Play search, including both the ground truth data and ranking signals/ML features. You will identify and solve hard problems to improve the system scalability, enhance the reliability, as well as optimize the resource efficiency.
What You Will Do
Design and build Coupang Play's next-generation data platform.
Design and build self-service data ingestion frameworks for enterprise-wide use.
Design and build reliable data pipelines with the ability to scale to very large data using modern distributed processing technologies such as Spark and Hive.
Develop, mentor and implement industry best practices in data architecture design, design patterns, and coding standards.
Basic Qualifications
Bachelor's degree or higher in computer science or related technology.
5+ years of software development experience with deep understanding of algorithms, data structures and design patterns
Experience with one or more programming languages such as Java, Scala, Python, Go, or Kotlin.
Experience in using distributed systems to deal with big data platform (Hadoop, Spark, Spark Streaming, HBase, Cassandra, etc) to write ETL pipelines.
Solid knowledge of Database System, Data Warehousing concepts and languages (SQL, NoSQL)
Software engineering fundamentals: version control systems (i.e Git, Github) and workflows, and the ability to write production-ready code
Strong communication skills, written and verbal; ability to present the work and gather feedbacks from internal developers
Preferred Qualifications
Experience with cloud computing platforms and understanding of scalability/reliability issues.
Experience in maintaining and monitoring ETL pipelines
Experience in analyzing large scale dataset and making data driven decisions
Experience with stream processing systems (Kafka, Spark-Streaming or equivalent) preferred
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.
Things to Consider
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