Tech Lead: Platform Engineer（English）

Job Description

Job Responsibilities

There are various interpretations and approaches to Platform Engineering in the world, but here, we will be working on providing tools and infrastructure to reduce the cognitive load on developers by “separating concerns.”

Among these, in this post, you will be working on the following tasks

• Communication and collaboration with developers to increase the value provided
• Development and operation of self-service tools and platforms
• Improvement of development processes and environments, not limited to the provision of new tools

　* Besides the team we are recruiting for this time, you may be assigned to other teams depending on your experience and preferences. (In that case, we would be happy to discuss this with you at the interview.) 　* After joining the company, your role may change due to organizational growth or an individual's career perspective.

Organization

The Platform & Enabling Department supports engineers in all aspects of product feature development, providing QA, SRE and security expertise across teams, as well as cross-system infrastructure and processing infrastructure.

The Platform Engineering Team is a newly established team. With the mission of “Unleash the Potential of Developers,” we aim to free developers from cognitive load so that they can focus on delivering value.

Let's touch on the multinational nature of the TECH organization.. 20% of our development members are from overseas (Asia, Europe, North America, etc.). We are challenging to create an organization in which multinational members can play an active role, for example, some teams communicate mainly in English, and important meetings are held in both Japanese and English.

Experience you will gain in this position

• Experience solving difficult problems with highly enthusiastic team members
• Experience contributing to the international scale of a product and development organization with technical capabilities
• Experience in providing value to society through the development of products that change the industrial structure.

Qualifications

• Experience in autonomously promoting platform engineering or equivalent to Tech Lead (see job description)
• Experience in designing and developing web applications in a statically typed language
• Hands-on software development experience of at least 7 years
• Business-level English proficiency

Preferred Qualifications

• Experience of operating container technologies such as Kubernetes
• Experience of practicing Infrastructure-as-Code
• Experience of designing and operating CI/CD pipelines
• Experience of designing and operating distributed systems
• Experience of designing and operating systems using Google Cloud
• Experience of designing and operating monitoring platforms such as Datadog
• Experience of practicing data engineering such as data infrastructure and ETL
• Experience of practicing platform engineering in an engineering team of over 50 people
• Conversational-level Japanese proficiency(Japanese Language Proficiency Test N2 or above is a guideline; communication is a mix of Japanese and English).

Portrait of a person

We want to work with individuals who have this kind of mindset.

• Individuals who understand our mission "Unleash the potential of manufacturing".
• Individuals who can confront essential challenges and take action with a sense of ownership to resolve them.
• Individuals who can perform their duties with a positive attitude and constructive discussions in fast-changing and highly uncertain situations.
• Individuals who can communicate and discuss with a respectful attitude, considering the context and resolution of others.