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.
The Impact of a Lead Platform DevOps to Coupa:
As a “Sr.Lead Platform DevOps ”, you will play a crucial role in the development of solutions for our Enterprise platform. You will be developing applications that provide self-service and increased efficiency to a diverse group of internal customers across Cloud Operations, Engineering, Customer Success & Support, and Customer Value Management. When you are successful you will significantly accelerate the ability of our teams to better serve our customers.
Coupa operates an open and autonomous work culture, where team members are challenged and critical thinking is encouraged. We operate an inverted organization structure, meaning we support our employees, not manage them. This is core to our culture and we do everything we can to foster an entrepreneurial spirit within our team as we strive for personal and organizational excellence.
What You’ll Do:
- Own, build and run a suite of impactful platforms built on modern cloud technologies that provide a suite of functionality delivering APIs, integrations, security, messaging, streaming, identity,performance, reliability & containers.
- Build a multi-region and multi-cloud platform that allows scalable, secure service delivery across hundreds of services on AWS & Azure clouds in a regulated environment.
- Act as a primary lead partnering to provide technical guidance, support, and direction for several platform engineering teams.
- Support the effort to containerize a suite of applications to reduce cost and improve efficiency.
- Develop and drive long-term strategies and roadmaps aligning with business priorities in partnership with the Dev and product Management team.
- Use data-driven insights across our cloud estate to inform and drive new feature development to optimize usage and reduce cost.
- Help us in improving the reliability and Scalability of the Platform.
- Takes full ownership of products and has a track record of sustainably delivering high quality features & managing technical debt.
What you will bring to Coupa:
- Has 6+ years of hands-on Platform System engineering experience using Go, Python, Java, Ruby or equivalent.
- Has 2+ years of experience in a lead engineering role, working with a diverse & distributed team located across the globe.
- Has experience with data platforms (Elasticsearch, Kafka), queueing & background services (SQS, SNS, Resque), identity services (Keycloak,, FreeIPA), integrations (APIateways, middleware), application security, or cloud performance optimization.
- Has experience in containerization technologies (Docker, Kubernetes, EKS, AKS, ECS)
- Infra As Code Exposure with Multi Cloud Deployments.
- Has experience building & running modern full-stack cloud applications using public cloud technologies (AWS, Azure, GCP) reliably and at scale.
- Has effective communication skills (written and verbal) to properly articulate complicated problems to all levels of the organization & customers.
- Will be confident in their ability to own and deliver a roadmap tied to business priorities
- Has a passion for excellence, is a natural problem solver, and a critical thinker. You should enjoy digging deep to understand issues and like solving hard problems
- Has a degree in Computer Science, Computer Engineering or equivalent
It would also be great (but not essential) for you to have:
- Experience with modern infrastructure management systems (Chef, Ansible, Terraform)
- Expertise in building Platform-as-a-Se
Coupa complies with relevant laws and regulations regarding equal opportunity and offers a welcoming and inclusive work environment. Decisions related to hiring, compensation, training, or evaluating performance are made fairly, and we provide equal employment opportunities to all qualified candidates and employees.
Please be advised that inquiries or resumes from recruiters will not be accepted.
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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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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
