Platform Engineer (Platform and Reliability Engineering Department)

Overview

Our company offers a range of services used by many users, including the automatic household accounting and asset management service "Money Forward ME" and the business-oriented cloud service "Money Forward Cloud." We also implement technologies such as "account aggregation" and "Money Forward ID," a single sign-on system, which support these services. Most of these services and features are developed in-house, not only in Japan but also at our overseas locations, Money Forward Vietnam and Money Forward India.

The mission of the Platform and Reliability Engineering Division (hereafter referred to as the PRE Division) is to stabilize the services provided by Money Forward and maximize productivity in development through the platforms and technical support for the services developed by Money Forward.

Main Job Responsibilities

Overview

As a Platform Engineer, you will be responsible for building and operating the common infrastructure (EKS platform) used by various applications of Money Forward.

• Development, operation, and maintenance related to the EKS environment
• Development, operation, and maintenance of tools related to the above

Specific Tasks within the Team

The following are some of the tasks. We will discuss them during the interview process.

• Upgrading EKS and related add-ons
• Development and maintenance of OSS and tools used in the EKS environment (such as Karpenter and Vault)
• Monitoring, alert setting, and incident response using Datadog
• Designing, building, and operating platforms (CI/CD, development environment, test environment, etc.) to maximize the productivity of the development team
• Performance optimization and creating mechanisms for it
• Other infrastructure environment settings (such as TrangitGateway)
• Cost optimization

Job Responsibilities for the Position

As a technical driving force in this team, you are expected to perform the following tasks:

• Design and operation policy formulation of medium- to long-term architecture as a common platform
• Architecture design of long-term EKS platform and related tools, and formulation and implementation of operation policies and guidelines in anticipation of business expansion and changes
• Improvement of reliability across services and implementation of common functions
• Promotion of service reliability improvement through SLO design as infrastructure and design and development of common platform functions such as monitoring, log collection, and authentication
• Promotion of standardization and automation of the platform
• Automation and standardization of infrastructure construction and deployment using Terraform, Helm, ArgoCD, etc., and promotion of measures to reduce cognitive load on developers
• Technical leadership of the infrastructure team
• Improvement of the team's technical capabilities and productivity through leading technology selection/design, code review, and troubleshooting

Experience Gained

• Challenge of building a company-wide platform:

This platform is used company-wide and supports many users. You can gain experience in building and operating a platform that supports the core of the company.

• Modern technology stack:

You can practice modern and challenging technologies such as Karpenter and multi-cluster configurations in an environment where reliability is required as a company-wide platform.

• Work with global members:

The team is global, consisting of members from Japan, Vietnam, Indonesia, and Poland. Work is primarily conducted in English, providing you with global work experience.

Required Skills and Experience

• Practical experience in design and operation in the fields of SRE, DevOps, or infrastructure (5+ years)
• Practical experience in development and operation of production systems using cloud environments (especially AWS)
• Experience using container orchestration systems such as Kubernetes or ECS
• Experience in building and utilizing monitoring environments using monitoring and observability tools
• Practical experience with Infrastructure as Code (IaC) (tools such as Terraform are not specified)
• Development experience through mutual review using Pull Requests with Git

Preferred Skills and Experience

• Development and operation experience with AKS on Azure
• Experience in reducing the burden on development teams and enhancing business value through Platform Engineering
• Experience in designing and operating SLI/SLO
• Experience in AI development and/or experience in using AI tools to improve development processes.
  • Money Forward recently announced our AI Strategy roadmap which focuses on improving AI-driven operational efficiencies, as well as integrating AI agents into our products to deliver better value to our users. (More information here)

Language Requirements

• Japanese: Not required
• English: Fluent

Technology Stack

You don't need to have all of these skills.

• Infrastructure: AWS, Amazon EKS/ECS, Cloudflare, CircleCI/ArgoCD/GitHub Actions
• Monitoring: Datadog
• IaC: Terraform
• Others: Kubernetes

Work Environment

At Money Forward, we provide an environment where we can create world-class services together, and we are looking forward to welcoming you.

• Provided PC Specs: We provide PCs equipped with the latest CPUs (MacOS or Windows). Custom-made PCs tailored to business requirements and replacements with the latest OS are also possible.
• Systems to Enhance the Development Environment: Peripheral devices necessary for work (such as displays, mice, keyboards) can be purchased as office supplies. Generally, you can choose from standard products (catalog), and if conditions are met, you can apply for non-standard products as well.
• Money Forward Library: We have a library system where you can freely borrow books, ranging from technical books to management books. Desired books can be purchased at the company's expense.
• Referral Driven: We cover the cost of recruitment meals. There is a referral reward system.
• Conference Participation Support: The company partially covers participation in domestic and international conferences, such as RubyKaigi and Google I/O.