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Database DevOps/SRE Engineer
役職：
Database DevOps/SRE Engineer
雇用形態:
Permanent
給与:
勤務時間:
English Level - Advanced (TOEIC 860), Japanese Level - High Intermediate (JLPT Level 2)
職務内容
A Top Tech firm is growing and looking for a Database DevOps/SRE Engineer. In this role you will be working with a dedicated team to help improve overall services across various domains. This is an opportunity to work on systems at a scale that are rare to see in Japan and work with other dedicated engineers in a collaborate results focused environment.
In this position, you will lead the management, operation, reliability improvement, and performance optimization of the large-scale distributed database system supporting the Product Platform. You will be responsible for critical operational areas, drive automation and tool strategies, and mentor engineers. You will contribute to achieving high reliability targets for the entire high-traffic multi-datacenter infrastructure.
Responsibilities:
- As a core technical member of the team, you will be responsible for critical database areas and lead the project from design to execution with minimal supervision
- Improve team operational maturity by establishing best practices, automation, runbooks, and operational processes to enable autonomous and efficient work performance
- As someone who enhances the overall capabilities of the team, you will mentor and develop junior and mid-level engineers, supporting them in taking on greater responsibility
- Promoting cross-departmental collaboration with SRE, DBRE, and development teams, and improving the reliability and performance of the storage infrastructure
- Contribute to the development of the team's technical direction and roadmap through architecture proposals and reviews
- Deployment, upgrade, scaling, data migration, and capacity planning for distributed database systems spanning multiple data centers
- Reduce operational burden and improve deployment reliability through automation, Infrastructure as Code (IaC), CI/CD pipelines, and the design and implementation of operational tools
- Leading on-call support, monitoring, troubleshooting, and incident response to complex database failures
- Root cause analysis, post-mortem analysis, and implementation of system-wide recurrence prevention measures
- Defining and improving SLOs/SLIs in collaboration with SRE and DBRE teams, and enhancing monitoring, alerting, and observability
- Performance tuning and cost optimization for the entire database suite
- Planning and executing high-impact operational changes such as major version upgrades, data migrations, and failover exercises
- Improving database usage and system fault tolerance through collaboration with related teams such as development, customer service, and QA
Required Skills:
- 5+ years of practical experience in DevOps, SRE, or infrastructure operations
- Experience operating large-scale production systems over extended periods is required. Experience with Cassandra, Hadoop, Kafka, Redis Cluster, MongoDB, Elasticsearch, TiDB, or similar database/distributed systems is particularly welcome
- Solid knowledge and experience in Linux system administration, particularly understanding of performance analysis, storage, and network internal architecture
- Skills in developing automation and operational tools using Python, Go, Shell, or similar languages, and experience using orchestration tools such as Ansible, Terraform, and Kubernetes
- Understanding of the fundamentals of distributed systems, including replication, partitioning, consistency models, and failure modes
- Experience in designing and operating monitoring and observability infrastructure using Prometheus, Grafana, ELK, Datadog, or similar tools
- Have a proven track record of leading incident response, conducting post-mortems, and driving improvements across the entire system
- Experience in capacity planning, performance tuning, and cost optimization for large-scale infrastructure
- Experience mentoring engineers or leading small teams on a technical level
Why should you apply:
- Fast growing and top Tech firm in Japan
- Strong career progression and training support
- Focus on emerging technologies
Company Details:
One of Japan’s largest technology companies, this organization operates large-scale digital services reaching over 180 million users. It offers engineers the opportunity to work on high-impact systems, collaborating with talented and passionate professionals to lead the development, enhancement, and continuous improvement of its services. The company fosters a results-driven culture and provides a flexible working environment, including a full flextime system and a range of employee benefits designed to support a healthy work-life balance. Engineers also benefit from on-the-job training to develop into AI-first engineers, gaining practical experience and building expertise in emerging technologies. This is an opportunity to tackle complex technical challenges unique to large-scale technology organizations, continuously enhance engineering skills, and contribute to digital services used by millions of people worldwide.
Working Hours: Flextime
Working Style: Hybrid Working Style (3 days in office set by Division)
Holidays: Saturday, Sunday, National Holidays, Year-end and New Year Holidays, Paid Holidays
Services/Benefits: Transportation expenses, plus Paid leave, plus social insurance (health insurance, welfare pension, and work-related accident insurance), Periodic health examination, and Employment insurance
