Job Description
Responsibilities
- Lead our world-wide team of engineers to operational excellence. Discover modern best practices and make them available through productivity-increasing tooling
- Empower teams to provide reliable systems. Facilitate the operation of service level objectives (SLO), on-call rotations and blameless post-mortems
- Drive the construction of a multi-regional cloud-native infrastructure that delivers performance to our global user base
- Optimize the processes for trimming down infrastructure costs and tuning our fleet of instances for maximum efficiency
Minimum Qualifications
- Production experience in at least one programming language, such as Go, Java, Kotlin, Python, Ruby, or JavaScript
- Knowledge of application architectures such as: distributed systems, asynchronous processing, microservices
- Competencies in operating public cloud services using infrastructure-as-code tools like Terraform or CloudFormation
- Experience in observability for cloud-based environments, including monitoring and logging
- Middleware configuration / troubleshooting experience on Linux/Unix platforms
- Business level communication in English
Preferred Skills and experience
- Experience in running a container-based application platform, based on Kubernetes and Docker
- Strong knowledge of fundamental AWS services with a certification as an AWS Associate or above
- Interest in industry best practices of Site Reliability Engineering, DevOps and the AWS Well-Architected Framework
- Hadoop ecosystem operation / troubleshooting experience
- OSS publication or contribution history
About SmartNews
Recently crowned Japan's latest tech unicorn, this company runs a wildly successful news service that’s powered by machine learning. It's an engineering-focused company (One of co-founders is an engineer) and they have offices in San Francisco, Palo Alto, Shanghai, Beijing that are apparently doing quite well too.
The mission of SmartNews is to discover and deliver quality stories to the world. Since its inception in 2012, the SmartNews app has been downloaded over 50 million downloads and maintained a monthly active user count of over 20 million.
In addition to being one of the most popular smartphone apps in Japan, SmartNews has worked hard on building their business in the US. They now have partnerships with over 300 major news publications in the US like CBS, Entertainment Weekly, Business Insider, National Geographic and more. They’ve had a great deal of success due to their ML-based sorting and recommendation systems.
SmartNews has a highly diverse development team with many world-class engineers and others working from their offices in Japan,China and the US. They maintain a very strict hiring bar for technical hires and an engineering-driven culture that makes them one of the strongest tech companies in Japan when it comes to technical skill level.
SmartNews is looking to hire the best people regardless of background, so they’re willing to hire people that don’t speak Japanese and (under normal circumstances) bring them to Japan from overseas if necessary. Everyone works together as one team regardless of location, and SmartNews provides everything their employees need to do their best work and maintains a Silicon Valley-inspired culture for engineers in Tokyo.
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