Note: The job is a remote job and is open to candidates in USA. Coupa is a company that specializes in total spend management through its community-generated AI platform. They are seeking a Senior Lead Software Engineer to design and implement scalable data ingestion systems, build core data platform components, and provide technical leadership while working collaboratively with various engineering teams.
Responsibilities
- 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
Skills
- 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 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
Company Overview
Coupa is a cloud platform for business spend that offers a fully unified suite of financial applications for business spend management. It was founded in 2006, and is headquartered in Foster City, California, USA, with a workforce of 1001-5000 employees. Its website is https://www.coupa.com.Company H1B Sponsorship
Coupa has a track record of offering H1B sponsorships, with 7 in 2026, 41 in 2025, 40 in 2024, 43 in 2023, 73 in 2022, 62 in 2021, 40 in 2020. Please note that this does not guarantee sponsorship for this specific role.