Back to jobs is hiring a Platform Engineer to design and build the cloud infrastructure that powers PayPay Card's financial platform. You will engineer robust, reliable, and cost-efficient AWS platforms to support a rapidly growing customer base.
What You'll Do
- Architect and build a robust, scalable, and stable infrastructure.
- Design infrastructure that is easily maintainable during patching and upgrades.
- Architect infrastructure with AWS regional-level failure tolerance.
- Work with Security Engineers to provision a secure infrastructure.
- Automate AWS deployments to ensure fast delivery of cloud services to developers.
- Provide automated means for developers to easily deploy resources on AWS.
What We're Looking For
- More than 5 years of technical experience in cloud-based infrastructure platforms.
- Ability to demonstrate a high degree of ownership in a production environment.
- Good understanding of cloud security best practices and payment industry compliance standards.
- Expertise in designing, building, and troubleshooting large-scale streaming and distributed systems using Kafka.
- Expertise in building robust platforms based on NoSQL/KVS datastores like DynamoDB, Opensearch/Elasticsearch, and Redis.
- Experience in cloud infrastructure and platform systems availability, performance, and cost management.
- Extensive technical hands-on experience with computing, storage, and analytical services on AWS.
- Experience with Infrastructure as Code tools in AWS such as Terraform, CloudFormation, and CDK.
- Experience with cloud services monitoring, detection, and response.
- Experience in cloud services performance tuning, cost controls, and management.
- Experience in cloud infrastructure service patching and upgrades.
- Proficiency in Python and Shell Scripting.
- Excellent oral, written, verbal, and interpersonal communication skills.
Nice to Have
- Bachelor’s degree or above in a technology-related field.
- Experience with other cloud service providers (e.g., GCP, Azure).
- Experience with Kubernetes (CKA, CKAD, or CKS certifications a plus).
- Experience with Event-Driven Architecture (Kafka preferred).
- Experience using and contributing to open-source tools.
- Experience in managing IT compliance and security risk.
- Published papers, blogs, or articles, or relevant and verifiable certifications.
- Bilingual in English and Japanese is nice to have, but not required. Proficiency in either language is fine.
- Go or Rust experience (optional).
Technical Stack
- AWS: VPC, EC2, ECS, EKS, Lambda, Cloudfront, MWAA, RDS, ElastiCache, DynamoDB, Opensearch, S3, CloudWatch, Cognito, SQS, KMS, Secret Manager, KMS, MSK, CodeCommit, CodeBuild, CodeDeploy, CodePipeline, CloudFormation, and other services.
- Terraform, Github Actions, Prometheus, Grafana, Dynatrace, Atlantis, ArgoCD, OpenTelemetry.
Benefits & Compensation
- Social Insurance (health insurance, employee pension, employment insurance, and compensation insurance).
- 401K.
- Annual leave (up to 14 days in the first year, granted proportionally according to the month of employment. Can be used from the date of hire).
- Personal leave (5 days each year, granted proportionally according to the month of employment).
- PayPay Group's own special paid leave system, which can be used to attend to illnesses, injuries, hospital visits, etc., of the employee, family members, pets, etc.
- Overtime allowance, late overtime allowance, commuting and transportation expenses.
- Annual salary paid in 12 monthly installments.
Work Mode
This role operates on a hybrid model and is based in Japan.
We are looking for people passionate about refining products at an overwhelming speed that other companies cannot match, as well as professionals interested in promoting the spread of cashless payments in Japan.
