Lead Cloud Software Engineer, Coupa
$142-198.7k
Office located in Foster City, CA
Business spending management platform
Be an early applicant
Business spending management platform
1001+ employees
Be an early applicant
$142-198.7k
Office located in Foster City, CA
1001+ employees
Company mission
To provide a clear idea of business value for clients.
Role
Who you are
- Senior Platform Engineering Leadership: 10+ years of hands-on platform engineering experience with 3+ years in technical leadership roles, including experience managing complex cloud infrastructure at enterprise scale
- Advanced Cloud Architecture Expertise: Deep expertise in cloud-native architectures, multi-cloud strategies, and advanced services across AWS or GCP, with proven experience designing systems that handle millions of transactions
- Enterprise Platform Design: Proven track record designing and implementing large-scale platform solutions, including microservices architectures, container orchestration, and distributed systems patterns
- Advanced Automation and Programming: Expert-level programming skills in multiple languages (Python, Go, Java, etc.) with extensive experience building sophisticated automation frameworks and platform tools
- Strategic CI/CD and DevOps: Deep expertise in enterprise CI/CD design, MLOps pipelines, and DevOps transformation initiatives, with experience implementing these practices across large engineering organizations
- Architectural Decision Making: Proven ability to make complex technical trade-offs, evaluate emerging technologies, and drive architectural decisions that balance current needs with long-term scalability
- Enterprise AI platform infrastructure development experience
- Experience building enterprise grade, scalable, cost-efficient, secure AI/ML platforms with a focus on resiliency, automation, observability
- Deployment and Life cycle Management of LLM & Embedding Models (OpenAI, AWS Bedrock, Amazon SageMaker) and Vector Databases like LanceDB
- Exposure to evaluation of new products and technologies like RAG, MCP servers, AI Agents, Agentic Workflows, LangChain etc
- Manage AWS core & AI /GenAI services (S3, IAM, EKS, Bedrock, etc), Expert in IaC (Terraform)
- Containerization and Orchestration: Deep knowledge of Docker and Kubernetes (especially GKE or EKS) for scaling inference services, Build, deploy workloads
- A leader who thrives in fast-moving environments, motivates teams, and embraces innovation
- Strong communication skills across geographies
- BS/MS in Computer Science or equivalent experience
What the job involves
- AI is reshaping how the world builds, learns, and connects. At our company, we believe the next generation of enterprise software will be powered by AI-driven platforms that are secure, scalable, and built for constant innovation
- As our Lead of AI LLM Platform DevOps team, you will build solutions that enable this vision
- From CI/CD pipelines, ML Ops, GenAI, Agentic AI platforms to AI governance and observability, you will define how our engineers build, test and ship the technologies that power global enterprises
- This is your chance to lead & shape the evolution of Coupa’s AI platform. You will lead system design, code development, deployment, automation for our LLM/GenAI/Agentic AI platforms ensuring reliability, scalability of infrastructure
- Lead Platform Architecture and Strategy: Define and drive the long-term technical vision for Agentic AI platform and LLM infrastructure, making strategic decisions on technology choices, architectural patterns and platform evolution
- Design Enterprise-Scale Platform Solutions: Architect complex, multi-tenant platform systems that support high availability, scalability, and security requirements across global multi-cloud environments
- Drive Technical Leadership and Mentorship: Lead and mentor a team of platform devops engineers, providing technical guidance, code reviews, and career development while fostering a culture of engineering excellence
- Establish Platform Engineering Standards: Define and implement best practices, coding standards and architectural principles that ensure consistency, reliability, and maintainability across all platform components
- Involve in evaluation of new products and technologies like RAG, MCP servers. AI Agents, Agentic Workflows, etc
- Deployment and Life cycle Management of LLM & Embedding Models
- Build and manage MLOps pipeline
- Infrastructure As Code (IaC e.g Terraform) with Multi Cloud Deployments
- Ensure technical quality through code reviews, architecture discussions, and engineering standards
- Collaborate with the Principal Architect and AI/ML Engineering Lead on technical direction
- Collaborate with platform, Dev & QE teams to plan & deploy the releases
- Participate in design reviews, code reviews, troubleshooting incidents & write, and review Incident RCAs
Our take
In 2006, Coupa was created to be a provider of business spending management (BSM) services. Since then, it has grown into its niche with a comprehensive platform that enables companies to gain greater control over their spending, supply networks, chain optimisation, liquidity management and payment solutions.
Coupa has been recognized as a leading brand in third-party risk management (TPRM). Using AI software, its TPRM software takes data from hundreds of sources and generates risk flags across the entire platform, informing the user’s processing decisions.
TPRM integrates into Coupa’s business spending management systems to provide one comprehensive platform, a feat that gives it a definitive edge when it comes to secure management of company funds. Most recently, the company acquired intelligent document processing partner, Rossum, in a move set to strengthen its source-to-pay capabilities and expand AI-powered invoice automation across the wider platform.
Kirsty
Company Specialist at Welcome to the Jungle
Insights
-3% employee growth in 12 months
Company
Funding (last 2 of 7 rounds)
Jun 2015
$80m
SERIES G
Mar 2014
$40m
SERIES F
Total funding: $169m
Company HQ
Town Center, Foster City, CA
Leadership
Leagh Turner
(CEO & Board Of Directors)Previously on the Board of Directors at Plan International Canada, was the Co-CEO of Ceridian and was COO at SAP.
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