Sr Lead Cloud Platform Engineer

About Coupa
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 commitment to excellence.
- Global Impact: Join a company where your work has a global, measurable impact on our clients, the business, and each other. Learn more on Life at Coupa blog and hear from our employees about their experiences working at Coupa.

The Impact of a Sr Lead Cloud Platform Engineer at Coupa
As a Sr Lead DevOps Pipeline Engineer, you will architect and optimize the CI/CD ecosystem that powers our massive containerized infrastructure. You will design automated, secure, and frictionless deployment pathways that enable our developers to ship code rapidly and reliably to our 140+ Kubernetes clusters. Your work directly accelerates Coupa's release velocity while maintaining the highest standards of security and operational excellence.
What You'll Do
- Architect, build, and maintain highly scalable, secure, and automated CI/CD pipelines tailored for an enterprise Kubernetes ecosystem.
- Drive the adoption of GitOps methodologies (e.g., ArgoCD or Flux) to ensure declarative, automated, and reliable application deployments.
- Optimize pipeline performance and build times, aggressively eliminating bottlenecks and manual intervention steps in the release process.
- Integrate deep security scanning, quality gates, and observability directly into the deployment pipelines.
- Collaborate with Platform and Software Engineering teams to ensure seamless integration between applications and the underlying container infrastructure.
- Mentor engineers on DevOps best practices, CI/CD architecture, and GitOps paradigms.

What You Will Bring to Coupa
- Extensive experience designing and managing enterprise-grade CI/CD pipelines (e.g., Jenkins, GitLab CI, GitHub Actions) for microservices.
- Deep expertise in GitOps deployment strategies and tooling (ArgoCD or similar) within a Kubernetes environment.
- Proficiency in scripting/development languages (Ideally Typescript and Node JS or Python, Go, Bash) and Infrastructure as Code (Terraform).
- Strong understanding of containerization (Docker, containerd) and Kubernetes deployment manifests (Helm, Kustomize).
- Experience integrating security and compliance checks into automated pipelines (DevSecOps).
- Excellent problem-solving skills and the ability to drive architectural consensus across engineering teams.

Global Well-Being Perks (For All Employees Globally)
- Global Wellness Days: Enjoy two designated, company-wide paid wellness days off each year (typically the first Friday in March and the last Friday in September) so the entire global team can unplug, step away, and recharge together.
- Birthday Time-Off: Celebrate your day! Coupa provides a paid day off on your birthday or another day of your choice within your birthday month.
- Volunteer Time Off (VTO): Giving back is in our DNA. We offer 40 hours of paid VTO annually to support the community initiatives and volunteer programs you are passionate about.
- Employee Assistance Program (EAP): Access free, confidential, 24/7/365 counseling and resources for emotional support, work-life solutions, financial advice, legal guidance, and support for new parents.
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