SRE Engineer

  • Tokyo
  • Remote OK
  • Full-time
  • January 20, 2021
Conditions
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¥5M ~ ¥13M /yr
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Apply from Anywhere 👍
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Relocation to Japan 👍
(Overseas visa sponsorship supported)
Requirements
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Language Requirements
Japanese: Not Required 👍
English: Business Level

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 Technologies, Inc, Head Office(FBR Mita Bldg. 8F, 4-1-27 Mita, Minato, Tokyo, Japan)
Currently all the employees basically work from home because of Covid-19.

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

- Moving to a remote work schedule from March, 2020 (still in effect)
- We are still hiring candidates from overseas, and will support their visa application. Until COVID-19 is settled and the border restriction is lifted, you can begin working remotely from abroad.

Notes

Notes

- Our office is in Tokyo, Japan. Successful applicants will need to relocate to Tokyo for this position. Working from abroad long-term is not possible.
- Applicants will be invited to complete an online test. Please let us know your email address when you apply for this position.
- We will contact successful applicants after their online test. Please be noted that we are not able to show the test score.

We provide a website localization service ”WOVN” to the users who want to provide their services in multiple languages. We strive to provide the simplest and most powerful solution to our users, without compromising on features. Quality and utility are of the utmost importance to us. This means providing a top-class experience for our users that is easy to use.

80% of our engineers are from abroad and they improve themselves by encouraging each other. We are looking for an engineer who is motivated for self growth and for developing a product which will have a huge impact on society.

Alert Notifications:

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

  • Continuing to recruit (even under such circumstances, our business is doing well)

  • Moving to a completely remote work schedule from March, 2020 (still in effect)

  • We are still hiring candidates from overseas, and will support their visa application. Until COVID-19 is settled and the border restriction is lifted, you can begin working remotely from abroad.

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