SRE Engineer

Job Description

We are looking for a SRE engineer who will support the infrastructure construction and operation of our multilingual platform WOVN. Successful candidates should have good communication and collaboration skills, detail-oriented, and proficient with technologies . We count on our SRE engineers to empower our users with a rich feature set, high availability, and stellar performance level to pursue their missions. Specifically, we are searching for someone who brings fresh ideas, demonstrates a unique and informed viewpoint, and enjoys collaborating with a cross-functional team to develop real-world solutions and positive user experiences at every interaction.

80% of our engineers are from overseas and we provide a global, creative and supportive environment. We are looking for an engineer who is motivated for self growth and for developing a brand new product which positively impacts our society.

Responsibilities

• Improve system performance, reliability and maintainability of the cloud infrastructure
• Maintain and Improve development environment and release flow
• Develop and monitor environment used for failure detection and capacity planning
• Develop and utilize log collection and analysis infrastructure for data analysis
• Collaborate and involve in activities to assure knowledge development, sharing plus integration within as well as across entire work programs as suitable and lead projects.
• Provide primary operational support and engineering for multiple large distributed software applications
• Partner with development teams to improve services through rigorous testing and release procedures
• Participate in system design consulting, platform management, and capacity planning
• Create sustainable systems and services through automation and uplifts
• Balance feature development speed and reliability with well-defined service level objectives
• Design and operate security-related business

Required Skills / Experience

• 3+ years of cloud infrastructure construction and management (focus on AWS)
• Constructing and managing high-availability databases (Aurora, MongoDB)
• Managing reverse proxies and load balancers such as nginx and ELB, including CDNs
• Deploying a containerized environment (Docker, ECS, GKE)
• Hands-on experience with Linux server management and Shell scripting
• Software lifecycle and deployment pipeline management with Github, Gitlab, CodeDeploy, etc.
• Infrastructure automation with infrastructure-as-code with Terraform, Cloudformation, etc.
• Python, NodeJS experience for serverless code
• Infrastructure monitoring with Datadog, Prometheus, etc.
• Implementing log aggregation and search environment (Elastisearch, Logentries, Athena queries, etc.)
• Knowledge on infrastructure security
• Business level in Japanese or English

Preferred skills

• Development experience with Ruby, Vue.js
• Experience with Aurora, MongoDB, Redis, etc.
• Hands on Docker
• Intermediate level of Japanese is preferred, but not required

Development language / tools

• Server side: Ruby (Ruby on Rails)
• Frontend: Vue.js
• Database: Amazon Aurora, MongoDB
• Infrastructure: AWS (EC2, ECS, Elasticache, Elasticsearch, etc.) , Azure, GCP
• Others: Fastly, CircleCI

Corporate Environment

• Dynamic , international and transparent corporate culture
• Able to utilize different tools such as AWS , Azure, GCP , etc.
• Fully flexible working hours and holiday
• Monitors, PCs and keyboards are provided
• Monthly language support subsidy (up to 10,000 yen per month)

Development system

Our developers focus on Scrum development. We do a weekly Sprint Review to share the results with the whole team.

Work Place

WOVN’s policies during COVID-19 are as follows:

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