Distributed Databases DevOps Engineer / LINE Platform

Position Outline

The Distributed Database Operations Engineer for the LINE's Messaging Platform and Developer Product Platform focuses on administrating, operating and troubleshooting distributed databases under high volume of data and traffic while ensuring high reliability goals.
It also dedicates to optimize operational process, costs and performance by the development of tools, automations and workflows.

Job Details

The Distributed Database DevOps Engineer focuses on administrating, operating and troubleshooting distributed databases under high volume of data and traffic while ensuring high reliability goals.
Specifically, the following tasks are expected:

• Administration and operative work: databases deployment, restart, updates, etc.
• Optimize operational processes, costs and performance by the development of tools, automations, Infrastructure as a Code and pipelines.
• Oncall duties, monitoring, troubleshooting and incident/outage support.
• Collaboration with SRE (Site Reliability Engineering) / DBRE(Database Reliability Engineering) teams (reporting, contacting) in order to ensure high reliability goals.
• Collaboration with Customer Service, QA and other teams when required.

*Scope of Change: There is a possibility of reassignment to any duties as determined by the company.

Expectations

• Join develop team as DevOps member, contribute to the business by performing daily operations, developing operational support tools, and acting as a QA (Quality Assurance) when needed.
• Act as a seed member, train and guide members so that the team can operate as an independent storage operations team in the near future.

Ideal Candidate

• Those who seek to improve the flow of operations and optimize cost and performance.
• Those who can design solutions that address both current and future problems and work to provide solutions that enhance the overall operations of an organization.
• Those who have deep knowledge and experience operating, solving and improving hardware and software problems that occur in large infrastructures and services that handle high amount of traffic.
• Those who properly evaluate the root cause of the issue and works to create an effective solution.
• Those who have the ability to describe their suggestions, observations and results accurately so the rest of the team understand and follow the procedures.
• Those who contribute together with SRE/DBRE to achieve and adjust defined SLO to ensure high reliability standards through system monitoring, problem detection and immediate response.

Required Experience/Skills

• DevOps Experience.
• Basic knowledge of infrastructure and networks.
• Basic knowledge of distributed systems or distributed databases.
• Experience in server instance building automation and maintenance operations using scripting languages such as Shell, Python or Ruby and orchestration tools such as Ansible or Chef.
• Experience with observability (monitoring) technologies and best practices.
• Troubleshooting, skills to evaluate the root cause, Critical Incident Response and Postmortem Experience.
• System On Call Experience.
• Language
  • Conversation skills in Japanese (intermediate or advanced level required).
  • English skills (skills for written communication and reporting to internal and external developers).

Preferred Experience/Skills

• Experience operating, solving and improving hardware and software problems that occur in large infrastructures and services that handle high amount of traffic.
• SRE concepts and best practices.
• Experience with system performance optimization.
• Experience with BPC/DR plans.

Salary

Expected annual salary: JPY 6,000,000 to JPY 10,000,000
Form of salary: Monthly salary (including fixed overtime allowance)
Standard monthly salary: JPY 400,000 to JPY 667,000
(Breakdown of standard salary)
　―Base salary: JPY 309,000 to JPY 518,000
　―Fixed overtime allowance: JPY 90,000 to JPY 150,000

Fixed overtime allowance of 35 hours will be provided, regardless of whether overtime work is performed.
　Note 1: Overtime allowance is paid separately for overtime work in excess of the fixed 35 hours.
　Note 2: Names of items related to monthly salary vary depending on the grades.
　Bonuses are granted a maximum of two times a year. The amount is determined by factors including the company's and your department's performance.