Sr. Director, Back-End Engineering

Coupang operates a large distributed technology ecosystem where rapid, safe, and repeatable validation is critical. We are seeking a Sr. Director, TestOps to lead testing as a platform capability, owning test automation, environments, data, integration testing, resilience validation, quality signals, and AI‑assisted testing.

Key Responsibilities

• Set a bold vision for testing as a company‑wide platform capability and translate it into an executable roadmap.
• Define and execute the TestOps strategy across Tech Infrastructure and partner engineering organizations.
• Build a federated testing platform supporting infrastructure, API, UI, integration, resilience, and release validation.
• Partner with Developer Platform, SRE, Observability, Security, and domain teams to embed quality gates into delivery workflows.

Essential Qualifications

• 12+ years of software engineering experience with 5+ years leading large engineering teams.
• Proven leadership in test infrastructure, developer productivity, or continuous delivery at a hyperscaler or global consumer platform.
• Hands‑on experience with Kubernetes, cloud‑native testing, service mesh, fault injection, and chaos engineering.
• Experience building AI‑assisted test generation or failure‑analysis systems.
• Strong technical judgment and ability to define a differentiated quality‑engineering vision.