Sr Lead Software Engineer

Coupa Data Engineer

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.

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
• 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.

$149,000 - $208,333 a year The successful candidate's starting salary will be determined based on permissible, non-discriminatory factors such as skills, experience, and geographic location within the state.