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Sr. Lead Software Engineer - 11282

United StatesRemoteFull TimeLead$149,000–$193,500 /yrPosted 2 months ago

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Coupa is seeking a Sr. Lead Software Engineer to join their remote US-based team. This is a hands-on individual contributor role focused on building and enhancing a modern, multi-cloud data platform utilizing Apache Iceberg. The engineer will be responsible for processing large data volumes, ensuring high-throughput ingestion, and optimizing data retrieval for sub-second query performance. The role involves influencing architecture, improving system reliability, and directly impacting customer-facing analytics. The ideal candidate will have deep technical expertise in data platforms and a passion for solving complex data challenges close to production systems.

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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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The Impact of a Sr. Lead Software Engineer at Coupa:
At Coupa, we are building a centralized, modern data platform on Apache Iceberg, designed to operate across a multi-cloud environment and power customer-facing analytics at scale. Our platform processes large volumes of data every day, combining batch ingestion and CDC-based streaming events, and serves data that is directly consumed by our customers.
This is a senior, hands-on individual contributor role with high ownership and technical depth. A key part of the role is continuously improving latency, reliability, and performance as the platform scales.
You will work on challenging, real-world data problems—ranging from high-throughput ingestion to enabling sub-second data retrieval and query performance—while influencing architecture and best practices across the broader data ecosystem. If you enjoy solving complex data platform problems, working close to production systems, and seeing your work directly impact customers, this role offers constant opportunities to make a meaningful impact without becoming repetitive.
The estimated pay range for this role is $149,000 - $193,500
The starting salary for the successful candidate will be based on permissible, non-discriminatory factors such as skills, experience, and geographic location.
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