Data Engineer, Search and Discovery

Role Overview

The Search and Discovery team is responsible for creating a world class search and discovery shopping experience for our customers, from “intent” based shopping to delighting the customer with serendipitous product discovery on every visit.

We are obsessed with optimizing the entire search customer journey, from query understanding and search relevance to personalized and category/mission aware search and recommendation experiences. We believe the experience of finding the right fresh groceries should be personal and different from shopping for a new laptop or your next pair of jeans. Search and Recommendations drive over 70% of product discovery for our millions of daily customers, so the scale and impact of our work is massive!

Within S&D, the Data Science and Analytics team analyzes customer data to determine how our Search models should be designed. This includes assessing how customers interact with our search results, analyzing experiments, building predictive models, and much more. We partner with Product and Engineering to turn these insights into changes to our Search models.

• Ideate, build, and manage analytics and production data ETL/ELT systems for high-volume data ingestion from diverse sources
• Partner with Data Science, Engineering, and Product to enable reliable, accurate logging/implementation and usage of Search data
• Ensure data quality, observability, and reliability across the data lifecycle
• Optimize systems for performance, cost efficiency, and scalability
• Define and manage SLAs for data systems
• Ensure security and compliance of data per industry standards

• 6 years of relevant industry experience as a data engineer in a technology company
• Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science or equivalent

• 8+ years experience in data/engineering overall
• Proficiency in Python and SQL
• Experience with distributed processing technologies and frameworks and distributed storage systems (e.g. HDFS, S3)
• Experience with ETL schedulers (e.g. Airflow, Dagster, DBT)

Our compensation reflects the cost of living across several US geographic markets. At Coupang, your base pay is one part of your total compensation.

The base pay for this position ranges from $164K/year to $282K/year. Pay is based on several factors including market location and may vary depending on job-related knowledge, skills, and experience.

• Medical/Dental/Vision/Life AD&D insurance
• Flexible Spending Accounts (FSA) & Health Savings Account (HSA)
• Long-term/Short-term Disability
• Employee Assistance Program (EAP)
• 401K Plan with Company Match
• 18-21 days of Paid Time Off (PTO) a year based on tenure
• 12 Paid Holidays
• Paid Parental leave
• Pre-tax commuter benefits
• Electric Car Charging Station

Other Compensation includes, but is not limited to, bonuses, equity, or other forms of compensation that would be offered to the hired applicant in addition to their established salary range or wage scale.

Coupang is an equal opportunity employer. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, or gender (including pregnancy, gender identity, gender expression, sexual orientation, transgender status), national origin, age, disability, medical condition, HIV/AIDS or Hepatitis C status, marital status, military or veteran status, use of a trained dog guide or service animal, political activities, or affiliations, citizenship, or any other characteristic or class protected by the laws or regulations in the locations where we operate.

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