Senior Platform Engineer - exaBase Studio

Tokyo
Remote OK
Full-time
December 23, 2023

Position Overview

As a senior platform engineer, you will be responsible for designing and implementing one of our flagship platform products - exaBase Studio - that helps customers easily deploy and deliver application and machine learning scalable reactive pipelines as APIs.

What we are Looking for

You will design and implement the architecture of a platform that enables software engineers, machine learning engineers, business and designers to deploy Application and ML pipelines as reactive APIs, as well as develop the actual platform itself.

You will be responsible for the code reviews of your team members and providing guidance.

The overall platform product strategy is determined by team discussions based on the feedback from the main business and product owners. You will be expected to contribute to the team decision from the viewpoint of a senior software engineer.

You are someone who is:

Interested in the implementation of machine learning technologies for the sake of solving social issues
Interested in cutting-edge computer science technologies

Required Skills

Strong development background in Golang or Python
Strong Kubernetes expertise as a user and developer
General experience with Linux, virtualization & storage
Knowledge of automated software testing, CI/CD, release management
Experience in software development projects, including architectural design
Effective interpersonal and communication skills :
Business-level English and conversational Japanese
OR
Business-level Japanese and at least reading and writing capabilities for English

Preferred Skills

Background in computer science or a related field
Project management skills
Experience with design, development, testing, and monitoring of large-scale and data-intensive systems
Experience designing, building and running elastic, cost-effective, resilient, robust, and secure architectures in the cloud using modern approaches like service-mesh and loosely coupled design
Ability to manage different Kubernetes providers (Amazon EKS and Fargate, Azure KS and Google KE) or run your own;
In order to ensure cloud foundation is strong and with needed compliance requirements, be able to:

Design & Implement Network connectivity
Provision Strategy
Assess & Design RBAC needs

Proficient in a wide variety of Cloud Native Services, and to an extent able to consult the others;
Familiarity with programming paradigms and concepts like OOP, multi-threading, idempotency;

Screening Process

Documentation Screening (Resume & Test)
1st Interview (Technical Interview)
2nd Interview (Technical Interview)
Final Interview (HR and CEO Interview)

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About ExaWizards

ExaWizards is an AI start-up with a simple mission: solve social issues using AI and create a happy society. But to achieve it, they’re tackling issues across a wide variety of industries: Care tech, HR, fintech, medicine, security and more. They believe AI can help solve problems in all these areas, and they’re determined to do just that. Their business model can be broken into two different flows: project-focused and product-focused. For project-focused initiatives, they start from scratch. Their ML engineers and consultants identify business problems and build models aimed at solving them. In their product flow, they take the ML models developed for specific problems and generalize them to be useful for a wider array of problems. Normally they develop these solutions into SaaS products.

Japanese Language Policy
Japanese skills are not strictly required. They also offer some support for helping with Japanese language study, but those who don’t speak Japanese may have a more limited set of teams where they can work. They recommend employees have the ability to hold daily conversations in Japanese.
Paid Leave
At the start of the fiscal year (April 1st), employees receive their paid time off days for the year.

In the first year of employment, the number of days received will be relative to the number of months worked.

In the year after joining, employees receive 15 days of paid time off, followed by 16 days the next year, and an additional two days beyond that for each year that passes.

Also, members from outside of Japan get two extra “return vacation” days in addition to this.
Benefits
💹 Stock options

👩‍🎓 Support for PhD studies

💜 Support for attending conferences, purchasing books etc.

👨‍🏫 Japanese lessons

🌎 Translation/interpretation support (EN<>JP)
(Simultaneous interpretation during all-hands meetings, announcements in English)
Engineer Interview Process
Software Engineers & Mobile Engineers

1.Online Coding Test (30min)
2.1st Technical Interview (White-Board Coding)
3.2nd Technical Interview (Overall Experience, etc.)
4.Final interview
+Depending on the individual case we may ask the candidate to attend a team matching interview.

Platform Engineers

1.Online Coding Test (30min)
2.1st Technical Interview (Team interview)
3.2nd Technical Interview (Leader Interview)
4.Final Interview
+In case of some Platform Engineer positions (ML Infrastructure, etc.), the coding test step may be skipped.
Remote Work
Partial Remote Work

ExaWizards offers partial remote work, and do not currently implement full remote work.

All employees are required to come to the Tokyo head office once a week. There is a possibility that the frequency of office attendance may increase in the future.
Work style
For engineers and designers, ExaWizards uses a fully discretionary labor system (裁量労働制).
They don’t have a specific start time, nor do they have core hours.

Members with children are able to use this system to make time to drop off children at school or fulfill any other obligations.
Doctorate Support Program

ExaWizards has a special support program for people who want to continue their doctoral studies while working. They even subsidize the costs (tuition, entrance fees etc) up to 2 million yen until graduation.

Care Tech

We develop evidence-based care to support the independence and coexistence of care recipients and make the care more accessible by using technology.

Med Tech

We aim to develop value-based healthcare for every individual and create a world in which everyone can live the best possible life they can.

We work on the early detection of individual disease risks and prevention of aggravation using ICT/AI.

Fin Tech

We make financial services for people who have been left behind because of the digital divide.
1. Support for consumption activities of the elderly
2. Support for continuation and growth of SMEs
3. Development of more convenient financial services
HR Tech

Through Jinjirality, technical singularity in the HR industry (“Jinji” in Japanese), we will pass on a better society to future generations despite the decrease in the working-age population by half.

※Business units are generally determined by individual choice and you can move between different domains