Platform Engineer

Remote OK - Anywhere in Japan
Full-time
June 27, 2024

We are looking for a Cloud infrastructure and platform engineer for PayPay Card's cloud system. This role will responsible for the engineering of Cloud Infrastructure Platforms to provide robust, reliable and cost-efficient Platform so that we can deliver the best experience for our growing customers base.

PayPay Card aims at revolutionizing the credit card industry, making payment easier than ever, from two different angles:

Bring the credit card experience to the next level: we have many functionalities in the pipe to improve our product, not to mention the integration into the PayPay ecosystem as PayPay Card is part of the PayPay Group
(Re-)architect our systems landscape: we want to reassess and fix the behind-the-scenes to power a top-notch user experience. It is bundled with difficult design challenges to solve: we simply want to get it right

As a fast-paced company leading the payments industry, we need our engineers to be versatile and enthusiastic to take on new challenges in order to stay at the forefront. Indeed, we strive for continuous improvement within our systems as well as outside our systems. Additionally, we value communication, to smoothly cooperate with other teams, and inclusivity, to efficiently navigate in a multicultural environment.

Main Responsibilities

Architect and build a robust, scalable and stable infrastructure
Architect and build Infrastructure that is easily maintainable during patching and upgrades
Architect and build Infrastructure with AWS regional level failure tolerance
Work together with our Security Engineers to provision a secure Infrastructure
Automations for AWS Deployments to ensure fast delivery of Cloud Services to our developers
Provide through Automations means for developers to easily deploy resources on AWS

Required Qualifications

More than 5 years of technical experience in Cloud based Infrastructure Platform
Ability to demonstrate high degree of ownership in a Production environment
Good understanding of Cloud security best practices and payment industry compliance standards
Experience in Cloud infrastructure and platform systems availability, performance and cost management
Extensive technical handson experience of Computing, Storage and Analytical Services on Cloud(AWS)
Experience with IAC tools in AWS such as Terraform, CloudFormation, CDK
Experience with Linux Internals and System Administration
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
Have excellent oral, written, verbal and interpersonal communication skills

Preferred Qualifications

Bachelor’s degree and above in a technology related field
Experience with other cloud service providers (e.g GCP, Azure)
Experience with Kubernetes
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 / articles
Relevant and verifiable certifications
Bilingual in English and Japanese is nice to have, but not required. Proficiency in either language is fine
JLPT N3 or above

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About PayPay Card

PayPay Card was established in 2021 to provide users with more accessible and convenient FinTech services that were previously not possible with credit cards and credit services by integrating with the PayPay payment platform.

PayPay Card is looking for professionals who are passionate about refining their products at an overwhelming speed that no other company can match, and promoting the spread of cashless payments in Japan.

Japanese Language Policy
PayPay Card started internationalizing our engineering teams in 2024. They are looking for someone who has business English proficiency and an open mind to embrace Japanese culture.

PayPay Card is building up an English speaking product engineering team from scratch. They are on the move of creating an international friendly environment like PayPay's Product Division, where English is the main language and having interpreters who can provide simultaneous translation when necessary.
Paid Leave
- Holidays: Saturdays and Sundays, National holidays (in Japan), Year-End and New Year Holidays, Company-designated special days
- Paid Leave: Annual leave (up to 16 days in the first year, granted proportionally according to the month of employment. Can be used from the date of hire)
Benefits
👶 Parental Leave

💚 Translation support (EN<>JP)

🧡 Interpretation support (EN<>JP)

💟 Complete health and social insurance
Engineer Interview Process
PayPay Card's Hiring process are as below:
- Application Review (English CV is required)
- Coding Test or Take Home Assignment (only applied to required positions)
- 3-4 Interviews (including both technical and behavioral interview)
- Offer Meeting
Remote Work
PayPay Card Engineering Team (depending on positions) has a full remote working style that allows you to live anywhere in Japan. There may be times you are asked to come to the office for team building and other activities. However, as long as you are living in Japan, you can generally live and work wherever you want.
Work style
- Super Flex Time with no core time
- In principle, from 9:00am - 5:45pm (actual working hours: 7h45m + 1h break)
PayPay Card is part of PayPay Group
PayPay, a FinTech company that has achieved more than 65M users (as of August 2024) within around six years since its launch in 2018, is rapidly expanding its business scale as a payment platform used by approximately one out of every two smartphone users in Japan. By integrating with PayPay payment platform, PayPay Card is able to provide users with more accessible and convenient FinTech services that have not been possible with credit card services.

Internationalizing engineering division
PayPay Card is aiming to become No.1 domestic credit card company and we believe having a multinational engineering team like PayPay will be a key to growth. We want to improve our engineering practices to meet worldwide industry standards and we are targeting to internationalize the engineering division, introduce scalable engineering practices and improve cross-company interaction.

Building an English product team from scratch
PayPay Card is building up an English speaking product engineering team from scratch. We are on the move of creating an international friendly environment like PayPay’s Product Division, where English is the main language and having interpreters who can provide simultaneous translation when necessary.