This role involves designing scalable data ingestion systems and building a centralized data lake on Apache Iceberg. Responsibilities include improving performance and reliability, collaborating with data engineers, and providing technical leadership.
Coupa makes margins multiply through its community-generated AI and industry-leading total spend management platform for businesses large and small. Coupa AI is informed by trillions of dollars of direct and indirect spend data across a global network of 10M+ buyers and suppliers. We empower you with the ability to predict, prescribe, and automate smarter, more profitable business decisions to improve operating margins.
Why join Coupa?
🔹 Pioneering Technology: At Coupa, we're at the forefront of innovation, leveraging the latest technology to empower our customers with greater efficiency and visibility in their spend.
🔹 Collaborative Culture: We value collaboration and teamwork, and our culture is driven by transparency, openness, and a shared commitment to excellence.
🔹 Global Impact: Join a company where your work has a global, measurable impact on our clients, the business, and each other.
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What You’ll Do
- Design and implement scalable, high-throughput data ingestion systems that integrate internal and external data across domains
- Design and build core data platform components, including ingestion, validation, orchestration, and lineage, with a focus on code quality and reliability
- Build and evolve a centralized data lake using Apache Iceberg (or similar table formats)
- Work across multi-cloud environments (AWS, GCP, Azure) to design and implement cloud-agnostic data ingestion and processing patterns
- Contribute hands-on to the Semantic layer, ensuring data is easy to consume for BI and analytics teams
- Partner with Senior Data Engineers, Platform Engineers, and Analytics Engineers to align how data is produced, stored, and consumed
- Establish practical engineering standards for testing, observability, and operational excellence
- Provide technical leadership through mentorship, code reviews, and design discussions, while remaining hands-on
What You Will Bring to Coupa
- 8-10+ years of experience in software or platform engineering, with a focus on building scalable data and analytics platforms
- Strong understanding of data ingestion patterns at scale, including CDC, and how data should be modeled and stored in a data lake for fast, efficient retrieval
- Proven experience building and operating large-scale data pipelines in production
- Experience working with modern data warehouses such as Databricks, BigQuery, or Snowflake
- Strong proficiency in Python and SQL, with a focus on writing production-quality, maintainable, and testable code
- Hands-on experience working with cloud data services in AWS, GCP, or Azure
- Experience working with query engines such as Presto or Trino to enable fast, reliable analytics over data lakes
- Familiarity with Lakehouse architectures and table formats such as Iceberg or Delta Lake
- Familiarity with data governance, lineage, metadata, cataloging, and data quality practices
- Nice to have exposure to semantic layers, metrics frameworks, or BI-friendly data modeling
- Experience supporting analytics or AI/ML workloads
- Candidates could be based out of any of these locations: San Francisco, Seattle, New York, Austin, Chicago, Phoenix, Northern Virginia (Fairfax, Arlington, Richmond) OR remote in the US.
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