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Coupang tech stack

Coupang builds mostly with SQL, Python, Java, Go. Its stack also includes AWS, Power BI, PyTorch, MySQL. SQL is named in 321 of the 785 job postings Coupang published in the last 12 months (41%). Counted by Alion from the job postings of Coupang, updated Nov 12, 2026.

Source: Alion Coverage: the company's job postings of the last 12 months Nov 12, 2026
Technologies in use
335
Postings analysed
785
Open now
289
Modernity
78 /100
New in 6 months
8

What programming languages does Coupang use?

SQL is named in 41% of job postings at Coupang, followed by Python (40%), Java (25%), Go (6%).

SQL 321 41% required in 82% · 117 open now · since Jul 2025
Python 316 40% required in 88% · 112 open now · since Jul 2025
Java 197 25% required in 91% · 59 open now · since Mar 2024
Go 48 6% required in 94% · 14 open now · since Sep 2025
Kotlin 33 4% required in 94% · 12 open now · since May 2026
C++ 31 4% required in 90% · 6 open now · since Jul 2025
JavaScript 31 4% required in 74% · 16 open now · since Apr 2024
PowerShell 28 4% required in 100% · 9 open now · since Apr 2026
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Node JS19
Scala13
TypeScript10
Perl7
Swift7
Rust6
SAS6
Dart5
Bash4
Ruby3
Sass2
MATLAB2
ABAP2
Objective-C2
1C1
C#1

What frameworks and libraries does Coupang use?

PyTorch is named in 4% of job postings at Coupang, followed by Spring Framework (4%), TensorFlow (3%), Hadoop (3%).

PyTorch 31 4% required in 45% · 13 open now · since Aug 2025
Spring Framework 29 4% required in 90% · 9 open now · since Mar 2024
TensorFlow 25 3% required in 32% · 11 open now · since Aug 2025
Hadoop 24 3% required in 75% · 8 open now · since May 2026
Spring Boot 15 2% required in 33% · 5 open now · since Jun 2026
Flink 14 2% required in 50% · 5 open now · since May 2026
Keras 11 1% required in 27% · 3 open now · since May 2026
XGBoost 11 1% required in 9% · 3 open now · since May 2026
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LangChain10
Scikit-learn10
React.js9
LangGraph7
Ray7
Vue.js7
Triton7
Dagster6
Flutter5
Angular4
Combine4
Jest4
Metasploit4
Nest.JS4
Next.js4
Redux4
SwiftUI4
UIKit4
LlamaIndex4
Pandas3
Transformers3
Appium3
Hibernate3
Selenium3
TestNG3
Pytest3
CUDA3
AutoGen2
CrewAI2
Express2
ROS2
ROS22

And 20 more, each named in fewer postings.

What databases does Coupang use?

MySQL is named in 4% of job postings at Coupang, followed by Redis (3%), Cassandra (3%), Google BigQuery (3%).

MySQL 29 4% required in 83% · 7 open now · since May 2026
Redis 27 3% required in 74% · 7 open now · since Sep 2025
Cassandra 22 3% required in 64% · 6 open now · since Apr 2026
Google BigQuery 20 3% required in 60% · 5 open now · since Aug 2025
ElasticSearch 16 2% required in 63% · 5 open now · since Nov 2024
TiDB 14 2% required in 57% · 3 open now · since Apr 2026
DynamoDB 13 2% required in 100% · 2 open now · since May 2026
PostgreSQL 12 2% required in 92% · 3 open now · since May 2026
Show all (23)
Amazon Aurora12
Amazon Redshift11
Presto10
Snowflake10
ClickHouse5
HBase4
Amazon DocumentDB3
Core Data2
Google Cloud Spanner2
Milvus2
Oracle2
Pinecone1
Qdrant1
Vespa1
Apache Iceberg1

What cloud and platforms does Coupang use?

AWS is named in 31% of job postings at Coupang, followed by Power BI (16%), Kubernetes (14%), Tableau (14%).

AWS 245 31% required in 77% · 84 open now · since Mar 2024
Power BI 129 16% required in 67% · 49 open now · since Jul 2025
Kubernetes 111 14% required in 72% · 46 open now · since Jul 2025
Tableau 110 14% required in 68% · 40 open now · since Jul 2025
GCP 108 14% required in 64% · 32 open now · since Sep 2025
Azure 98 12% required in 78% · 28 open now · since Aug 2025
Apache Kafka 66 8% required in 67% · 20 open now · since Sep 2025
Spark 50 6% required in 66% · 18 open now · since Jul 2025
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Linux48
SIEM29
Grafana25
Looker22
Figma21
GitHub21
Windows19
Kubeflow18
Amazon S317
DLP16
Airflow16
Istio15
Vertex AI12
MLFlow11
Splunk10
Active Directory9
Amazon SageMaker9
Microsoft Entra ID7
Unix6
vLLM6
Amazon EKS5
Databricks5
OpenAI5
Amazon CloudWatch5
Okta5
API Gateway4
Burp Suite4
Kali Linux4
Android SDK3
LDAP3
VMWare3
RabbitMQ3

And 25 more, each named in fewer postings.

What developer tools does Coupang use?

Microsoft Excel is named in 7% of job postings at Coupang, followed by Docker (7%), Terraform (3%), gRPC (3%).

Microsoft Excel 55 7% required in 80% · 22 open now · since Nov 2025
Docker 55 7% required in 71% · 19 open now · since Nov 2025
Terraform 25 3% required in 92% · 7 open now · since May 2026
gRPC 23 3% required in 78% · 10 open now · since Sep 2025
Rest API 21 3% required in 95% · 15 open now · since Jan 2026
Claude Code 18 2% required in 61% · 8 open now · since Jun 2026
Git 18 2% required in 61% · 9 open now · since Aug 2025
Prometheus 17 2% required in 65% · 6 open now · since Sep 2025
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Ansible15
ArgoCD14
CloudFormation13
Jenkins13
CircleCI13
Envoy12
GraphQL12
Devin12
Copilot12
Cursor11
Adobe Photoshop10
AutoCAD10
Webpack8
Babel7
TensorRT6
Windsurf6
Swagger6
InfiniBand4
Model Context Protocol4
Nmap4
Storybook4
dbt4
Cinema 4D2
Hyper-V2
KServe2
Loki2
Mandiant capa2
NVLink2
Nginx2
OpenStack2
SLURM2
TPU2

And 25 more, each named in fewer postings.

What AI and ML technologies does Coupang use?

LLM is named in 8% of job postings at Coupang, followed by Claude (2%), ChatGPT (1%), Gemini (1%).

LLM 60 8% required in 83% · 26 open now · since Jul 2025
Claude 15 2% required in 93% · 6 open now · since Mar 2026
ChatGPT 9 1% required in 78% · 4 open now · since Mar 2026
Gemini 7 1% required in 86% · 2 open now · since Aug 2025
LoRA 2 <1% required in 50% · since Jul 2025
PEFT 2 <1% optional · since Jul 2025
QLoRA 1 <1% required in 100% · since Oct 2026
Core ML 1 <1% optional · since Jul 2026

Which engineering practices does Coupang ask for?

Machine Learning is named in 13% of job postings at Coupang, followed by CI/CD (11%), A/B Testing (7%), ETL/ELT (6%).

Machine Learning 99 13% required in 87% · 40 open now · since Mar 2024
CI/CD 88 11% required in 70% · 30 open now · since Sep 2025
A/B Testing 52 7% required in 79% · 20 open now · since May 2025
ETL/ELT 47 6% required in 66% · 14 open now · since Aug 2025
AI Agents 44 6% required in 84% · 15 open now · since Sep 2025
IAM 37 5% required in 92% · 17 open now · since Mar 2026
Platform Engineering 25 3% required in 92% · 9 open now · since Nov 2025
RAG 20 3% required in 85% · 6 open now · since Apr 2026
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SLI/SLO/SLA19
Incident Management18
Prompt Engineering18
Recommender Systems16
Service Mesh15
TCP/IP13
Fine-tuning13
Embeddings12
Red Teaming12
Multimodal AI11
Computer Vision11
Self-Healing10
NLP10
PKI10
DNS8
Contrastive Learning7
Reinforcement Learning7
LLM Guardrails7
Knowledge Graph6
NIST AI RMF6
Human-in-the-Loop6
Tokenization6
BGP5
Function Calling5
ISO 420015
Time Series5
Anomaly Detection5
AIOps4
HPC4
MVVM4
VPN4
Chaos Engineering4

And 46 more, each named in fewer postings.

What other technologies does Coupang use?

CDS Views is named in <1% of job postings at Coupang, followed by Swift Concurrency (<1%), Abstract (<1%), Kotlin Coroutines (<1%).

CDS Views 2 <1% required in 100% · 1 open now · since May 2026
Swift Concurrency 1 <1% required in 100% · 1 open now · since Nov 2026
Abstract 1 <1% optional · 1 open now · since Sep 2026
Kotlin Coroutines 1 <1% optional · 1 open now · since Oct 2026

What does each Coupang team work with?

The technologies each team's postings require most often, with the number of postings that require them.

Backend

154 postings
Java119
AWS110
Python64
Kubernetes45
Azure35
Apache Kafka34

Analytics

83 postings
SQL73
Python46
Tableau40
Power BI25
Looker8
Presto7

Operations

74 postings
SQL42
Power BI23
Microsoft Excel9
Tableau9
AutoCAD2
Looker2

Security

71 postings
Python49
AWS47
Azure28
GCP26
Linux25
SIEM24

AI/ML

48 postings
Python36
Java25
LLM13
Spark13
PyTorch11
Kubeflow7

Product

46 postings
LLM7
Kubernetes3
ChatGPT2
Ray2
SLURM2
Windsurf2

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How much does Coupang pay by technology?

Median stated pay of the postings that name each technology, against the median of all Coupang postings with stated pay: $282k across 91 postings.

TechnologyPostings with payMedianvs company median
Python44$282k0%
AWS41$282k0%
Java39$282k0%
Kubernetes22$282k0%
SQL18$282k0%
GCP18$277k−2%
Kubeflow13$277k−2%
Azure12$299k+6%
Spring Framework12$282k0%
Spark12$277k−2%

How is the Coupang stack changing?

Read from the dates of the postings themselves: a technology is new when the first posting that names it appeared in the last six months, rising or falling when its share of postings moved between the last two quarters.

First appeared
MATLABNov 2026
AutoGenOct 2026
CrewAIOct 2026
Master Data ManagementOct 2026
KyvernoOct 2026
LightGBMSep 2026
Wi-FiSep 2026
KServeSep 2026
Rising
Power BI11% → 21%
SIEM1% → 6%
Figma0% → 4%
Falling
AWS43% → 23%
Java35% → 18%
Kubernetes19% → 11%
Apache Kafka13% → 5%
GCP17% → 10%
Azure16% → 9%
CI/CD16% → 9%
Spring Framework7% → 1%
Not named for 6 months
Context EngineeringDec 2025
Azure DevOpsMay 2026
GitHub ActionsMay 2026
SpinnakerMay 2026
Semantic SearchApr 2026
TPUNov 2025

How modern is the Coupang stack?

Cutting-edge AI adopter 78/100

Coupang scores 78 out of 100 (Cutting-edge). The score averages how current each technology in the stack is and adds weight for AI adoption. AI technologies in the stack: 8; legacy ones: 0.

How common is the Coupang stack in its industry?

Share of the 1,772 companies in the same industries, whose stack Alion knows, that use each technology.

SQL44%
Python41%
AWS32%
Java19%
Power BI17%
Kubernetes25%
Tableau14%
GCP23%
Azure19%
Apache Kafka16%

What sets Coupang apart

Spring Framework2%
Hadoop3%
Cassandra2%
Kubeflow3%
DLP3%
Istio2%
TiDB0%
DynamoDB4%
Amazon Aurora3%
Vertex AI3%

Questions about the Coupang tech stack

What programming languages does Coupang use?

The languages named in Coupang job postings are SQL (41%), Python (40%), Java (25%), Go (6%), Kotlin (4%), as a share of the 785 postings of the last 12 months.

Does Coupang use PyTorch?

Yes. PyTorch is named in 31 of 785 job postings (4%) and required in 14 of them.

What cloud and platforms does Coupang use?

The cloud and platforms named in Coupang job postings are AWS (245), Power BI (129), Kubernetes (111) (postings in brackets).

What skills do you need for a Backend job at Coupang?

Backend postings at Coupang most often require Java (119), AWS (110), Python (64), Kubernetes (45), out of 154 postings in the last 12 months.

Is the Coupang tech stack changing?

Yes. MATLAB, AutoGen, CrewAI, Master Data Management first appeared in Coupang job postings in the last six months.

How modern is the Coupang tech stack?

Coupang scores 78 out of 100 (Cutting-edge). The score averages how current each technology in the stack is and adds weight for AI adoption. AI technologies in the stack: 8; legacy ones: 0.

How does Alion know the Coupang tech stack?

Alion reads every job posting Coupang publishes and tags the technologies each one names. The figures on this page count the 785 postings of the last 12 months and were updated on Nov 12, 2026.

Method and citation

Alion reads every job posting the company publishes and tags the technologies each one names. Shares count the postings of the last 12 months, open and closed; the company's own products are counted apart. How we count

Alion, "Coupang tech stack: 335 technologies from 785 job postings", as of Nov 12, 2026. https://alion.io/company/coupang/technologies

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