Cloud Platform Engineer

Summary

Join PayPay as a Cloud Platform Engineer and contribute to the engineering of robust, reliable, and cost-efficient cloud infrastructure platforms for our growing payment system. You will architect and build scalable infrastructure, ensuring high availability and security. This role requires extensive AWS experience, proficiency in programming and scripting, and a strong understanding of cloud security best practices. We offer a flexible work-from-anywhere environment in Japan, competitive benefits, and opportunities for professional growth within a dynamic FinTech company. The ideal candidate possesses significant experience in cloud-based infrastructure and a passion for building innovative solutions.

Requirements

• More than 8 years of technical experience in cloud-based infrastructure platforms
• Extensive technical hands-on experience with computing, storage, and analytical services on AWS
• Demonstrated skill in programming and scripting languages, including Python, Shell Scripting, Go, and Rust
• Experience with infrastructure as code (IAC) tools in AWS, such as Terraform, CloudFormation, and CDK
• Proficient in Linux internals and system administration
• Experience in production level infrastructure change management and releases for high traffic & business-critical systems
• Experience in Cloud infrastructure and platform systems availability, performance and cost management
• Strong understanding of cloud security best practices and payment industry compliance standards
• Ability to demonstrate a high degree of ownership in a production environment, including incident management and cross-team collaboration
• Experience with cloud services monitoring, detection, and response, as well as performance tuning and cost control
• Familiarity with cloud infrastructure service patching and upgrades
• Good understanding and experience with network especially on cloud platforms
• Experience in AI/ML infrastructure design and operations
• Excellent oral, written, and interpersonal communication skills
• Proficiency in either English or Japanese

Responsibilities

• Architect and build a robust, scalable and stable infrastructure
• Architect and build Infrastructure that is easily maintainable during patching and upgrades without downtime
• Architect and build Infrastructure with AWS regional level failure tolerance
• Work together with our Security Engineers to provision a secure Infrastructure
• Automations for AWS Deployments to ensure fast delivery of Cloud Services to our developers
• Provide through Automations means for developers to easily deploy resources on AWS

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 / articles
• Relevant and verifiable certifications
• Bilingual in English and Japanese is nice to have, but not required
• JLPT Level 3 or above

Benefits

• Social Insurance (health insurance, employee pension, employment insurance and compensation insurance)
• 401K
• Translation/Interpretation support
• VISA sponsor + Relocation support
• Work From Anywhere at Anytime
• Super Flex Time (No Core Time)
• Every Sat/Sun/National holidays (In Japan)/New Year's break/Company-designated Special days
• Annual leave (up to 14 days in the first year, granted proportionally according to the month of employment. Can be used from the date of hire)
• Personal leave (5 days each year, granted proportionally according to the month of employment）
• ���PayPay's own special paid leave system, which can be used to attend to illnesses, injuries, hospital visits, etc., of the employee, family members, pets, etc
• Annual salary paid in 12 installments (monthly)
• Reviewed once a year
• Special Incentive once a year *Based on company performance and individual contribution and evaluation
• Late overtime allowance
• ���Payroll payment can be changed to digital salary payment “PayPay Paycheck” for an amount set by you