SRE, Digital Bank_Tokyo

Overview

Under the mission "Move your money forward. Move your life forward," Money Forward aims to alleviate financial concerns and anxieties for individuals and businesses through the power of technology. 

We have launched a project to establish a new digital bank in partnership with Sumitomo Mitsui Banking Corporation. 

We are currently seeking a Site Reliability Engineer (SRE) to join this initiative. 

*Based on the press release announced on April 16, 2025

The successful candidate will be employed by Money Forward Inc. and seconded to the new company. The evaluation system and employee benefits will be in accordance with Money Forward Inc.

About Us

We are a startup team partnering with Sumitomo Mitsui Banking Corporation to establish a new digital bank. This initiative aims to deliver more user-friendly, cost-effective, and timely financial services, providing an innovative back-office experience and creating financial flows that contribute to the growth of the Japanese economy.

Main Responsibilities

As an engineer responsible for the high availability and reliability of the system infrastructure required for a digital bank, you will be tasked with building and operating this infrastructure.

• Ensure stable operation of the system platform with high availability and reliability
• Improve service reliability by defining and operating SLI/SLO and continuously improving performance
• Use Datadog for monitoring, observability, and incident response
• Ensure compliance and manage the infrastructure and security operations, particularly with AWS multi-region configurations
• Maximize the productivity of the development team through platforms (CI/CD, development environments and testing environments)
• Conduct performance optimization and create mechanisms for it
• Handle incidents, recovery, and incident management
• Handle incidents, recovery, and incident management, as well as fostering a postmortem culture.
• Address regulatory requirements specific to the financial industry

Required Skills and Experience

• At least 3 years of hands-on experience in design and operations within SRE, infrastructure, or similar fields.
• Proficiency in working with cloud platforms, especially AWS.
• Familiarity with container orchestration tools such as Kubernetes.
• Experience with monitoring and observability solutions.
• Competence in using Infrastructure as Code tools like Terraform or Ansible.
• Development experience utilizing Git for pull requests and code reviews

Preferred Skills and Experience

• Practical experience in industries with high security and compliance requirements, such as financial systems
• Expertise in managing and optimizing RDBMS like MySQL or PostgreSQL.
• Experience in designing, building, and operating disaster recovery environments using multi-region setups
• Experience in designing and operating SLI/SLO
• Experience in improving deployment times, performance optimization, and enhancing CI processes for development efficiency
• Experience in web application development
• Experience in managing AWS Organizations
• 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.

Language Requirements

• Japanese: N3 level (able to use translation tools for text and conversation)
• English: Fluent

Who We’re Looking For

• Conscious of high security levels and governance, you explore automation and better methods
• You have the ability to question the status quo and seek better ways to do things, considering trade-offs with the current state of the organization
• With an understanding of the development team's pain points, you can propose and implement solutions from a Platform/SRE perspective to improve the overall service
• You contribute to the growth of the entire team by addressing challenges that no one knows the answer to yet, and by collaborating with the team
• Your contributions help connect and enhance the growth of the entire team

Experience Gained

• Challenge from Scratch
  • You will have the opportunity to build everything from the ground up, including the system infrastructure of a new digital bank, SRE culture, development processes, and on-call systems.
• Modern Technology Stack
  • You can work with modern and challenging technologies in environments that demand financial-grade reliability, such as AWS multi-region configurations and Aurora Global Database.
• Contribution to the Business
  • By closely collaborating with business and application development teams, you can directly contribute to the business launch from a technical perspective. Your input will influence the bank's reliability.
• Flat Organization
  • In a small, elite team, you will have the autonomy to actively participate in technology selection and architecture design.

Tech Stack

• Backend
  • Kotlin
• Infrastructure
  • AWS
  • Amazon ECS
  • Amazon Aurora Global Database (MySQL/PostgreSQL)
  • Amazon ElastiCache Global Datastore
  • RedHat Enterprise Linux
  • Cloudflare
• Monitoring
  • Datadog
• IaC
  • Terraform

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.