Platform Engineer

Cloud Infrastructure and Platform Engineer at PayPay Card

We are looking for a Cloud Infrastructure and Platform Engineer for PayPay Card's cloud system. This role will be responsible for the engineering of Cloud Infrastructure Platforms to provide a robust, reliable, and cost-efficient platform so that we can deliver the best experience for our growing customer base.

PayPay Card aims at revolutionizing the credit card industry, making payment easier than ever, from two different angles:

• Bring the credit card experience to the next level: We have many functionalities in the pipeline to improve our product, not to mention the integration into the PayPay ecosystem as PayPay Card is part of the PayPay Group.
• (Re-)architect our systems landscape: We want to reassess and fix the behind-the-scenes to power a top-notch user experience. It is bundled with difficult design challenges to solve: we simply want to get it right.

As a fast-paced company leading the payments industry, we need our engineers to be versatile and enthusiastic to take on new challenges in order to stay at the forefront. Indeed, we strive for continuous improvement within our systems as well as outside our systems. Additionally, we value communication to smoothly cooperate with other teams and inclusivity to efficiently navigate in a multicultural environment.

Main Responsibilities

• Architect and build a robust, scalable, and stable infrastructure.
• Architect and build infrastructure that is easily maintainable during patching and upgrades.
• Architect and build infrastructure with AWS regional-level failure tolerance.
• Work together with our Security Engineers to provision a secure infrastructure.
• Automate AWS deployments to ensure fast delivery of cloud services to our developers.
• Provide automation means for developers to easily deploy resources on AWS.

Required Qualifications

• More than 5 years of technical experience in cloud-based infrastructure platforms.
• Ability to demonstrate a high degree of ownership in a production environment.
• Good understanding of cloud security best practices and payment industry compliance standards.
• Experience in cloud infrastructure and platform systems availability, performance, and cost management.
• Extensive technical hands-on experience with computing, storage, and analytical services on the cloud (AWS).
• Experience with IAC tools in AWS such as Terraform, CloudFormation, CDK.
• Experience with Linux internals and system administration.
• Experience with cloud services monitoring, detection, and response.
• Experience in cloud services performance tuning, cost controls, and management.
• Experience in cloud infrastructure service patching and upgrades.
• Excellent oral, written, verbal, and interpersonal communication skills.

Preferred Qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree and above in a technology-related field.
• Experience with other cloud service providers (e.g., GCP, Azure).
• Experience with Kubernetes.
• Experience with event-driven architecture (Kafka preferred).
• Experience using and contributing to open source tools.
• Experience in managing IT compliance and security risk.
• Published papers, blogs, or articles.
• Relevant and verifiable certifications.
• Bilingual in English and Japanese is nice to have, but not required. Proficiency in either language is fine.
• JLPT N3 or above.