Staff Backend Engineer - K8 (Envoy)
Coupang (company site, opens in a new tab)8+ yrsBengaluruOn-siteDirect career pageEst. 40–70 LPA
Posted on 22 Sept
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About This Role
- Architect and build large-scale AI inference gateway platform serving mission-critical machine learning workloads at scale.
- Design and develop platform components for request routing, load balancing, traffic shaping, caching, and policy enforcement for AI inference services.
- Lead technical vision, architecture reviews, and mentor senior engineers across teams, optimizing performance, reliability, and observability for AI infrastructure.
Minimum Requirements
- 8+ years professional software development experience.
- 5+ years experience designing and operating large-scale distributed systems in production.
- Strong hands-on expertise in Go, Java, or Python; experience with Kubernetes and containerized workloads on AWS, Azure, or GCP.
- Experience building mission-critical platform or infrastructure services with microservices architecture and strong understanding of cloud-native technologies.
Ideal Candidate Profile
- Experienced in designing and operating AI/ML inference platforms or large-scale networking infrastructure including service gateways and service mesh.
- Strong background in distributed systems with expertise in Kubernetes ecosystem technologies and high-performance networking protocols (gRPC, HTTP/2).
- Comfortable leading technical vision and multi-team collaboration to drive scalable, reliable AI infrastructure within hybrid cloud environments.