Experienced Site Reliability Engineer

What You Will Do

This is a hands-on technical role, day to day activities include:

• Provisioning production and pre-production deployment environments for various projects, supporting a range of different tech stacks.
• Developing solutions to improve system performance with a focus on high availability, scalability and resilience.
• Configuring CI/CD pipelines so applications can be iterated on frequently and deployed with confidence.
• Monitoring application performance and resource usage to identify bottlenecks and faults.
• Advising on technology adoption and selection as it pertains to web solutions. This is not a project management role, though mentoring is encouraged.
• Working with cross-functional teams to help shape and define key features.
• Writing custom software to manage platform infrastructure where necessary.

What We Can Expect from You

• Business-level English language ability.
• A degree in Computer Science, or equivalent experience.
• 5+ years of recent commercial programming with a strong emphasis on delivering web solutions.
• A tendency to look for ways to improve existing systems and processes.
• Proficiency with AWS or a similar cloud service provider.
• Experience with Docker, Amazon ECS, EKS and ECR.
• Experience with AWS services including Lambda, RDS, CloudWatch, ElastiCache, Route 53, and others.
• Proficiency with Terraform or similar infrastructure-as-code tools.
• Proficiency with Kubernetes.
• A strong understanding of web application architecture and distributed systems.
• The ability to find simple, pragmatic solutions to complex problems.
• Experience explaining complex, technical limitations to team members with a non-technical background.
• Bonus points:
  • Proficiency with CircleCI and/or Jenkins.
  • Proficiency with observability tools (Prometheus, Grafana, etc).
  • Linux command line / Bash scripting proficiency.
  • Japanese language proficiency.
  • Experience working with HR-related applications.
  • Interest in working on application code where necessary.

What You Can Expect from Us

• ¥9.0 - 12.0 million/year (negotiable based on experience).
• 20+ paid days off per year.
• Flexible work hours, opportunity to work remotely.
• Social and health insurance.
• Commuting subsidy and work equipment provided.
• An international team of talented and engaged creators who will value your input.
• Visa sponsorship (after a 6-month trial period).
• Weekly 1-hour 1-on-1 Japanese language lessons (for non-Japanese speakers).
• Weekly 1-hour 1-on-1 English language lessons (for Japanese nationals).