Coupa

Sr. Lead Software Engineer - 11282

Reposted 10 Hours Ago

Hiring Remotely in US

Remote

149K-194K Annually

Senior level

Artificial Intelligence • Fintech • Information Technology • Logistics • Payments • Business Intelligence • Generative AI

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The Role

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.

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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.

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:

Nice to have exposure to semantic layers metrics frameworks or BI-friendly data modeling

Experience supporting analytics or AI/ML workloads

The estimated pay range for this role is $149000 - $193500

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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Top Skills

Apache Iceberg

AWS

Azure

BigQuery

Databricks

GCP

Presto

Python

Snowflake

SQL

Trino

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The Company

2500 Employees

Year Founded: 2006

What We Do

Coupa is a global technology company that helps businesses run smarter by connecting all the ways they spend money — from procurement and expenses to payments and supply chain decisions — in one intelligent platform. In simple terms Coupa gives organizations the visibility and control they need to make better financial choices reduce waste and drive real impact. It’s where technology meets purpose: helping companies manage their resources more responsibly while creating a positive ripple across their people partners and the planet.

Why Work With Us

At Coupa we prioritize an inclusive and empathetic workplace where every voice is valued. Our teams are proactive and accountable ensuring we collaborate effectively to achieve our goals. The foundation of our culture rests on our people; we believe in fostering an environment that encourages innovation and curiosity.

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Employees work remotely.

Our virtual-first approach is intentional. It gives you the freedom to do your best work in a space that supports focus balance and creativity while staying connected to a global team of changemakers who are redefining the future of business spend

Typical time on-site: None