Platform Engineer, DB Specialist

Summary

Join PayPay, a rapidly growing FinTech company with a diverse team, as a Cloud Platform Engineer specializing in databases. You will contribute to providing the best financial services in Japan by ensuring efficient and stable data storage. Key responsibilities include database operations, troubleshooting, and contributing to documentation. The ideal candidate possesses extensive DBA experience, AWS expertise, and a strong understanding of IaC. PayPay offers a fully remote work environment with flexible hours and a comprehensive benefits package.

Requirements

• Possess more than 5 years of DBA experience with a minimum of 3 years Redis/DynamoDB experience
• Have more than 5 years of AWS experience including basic operation with IAM, VPC and EC2
• Demonstrate hands-on experience with Infra as Code (IaC - terraform)
• Show interest in new technologies and willingness to improve operational quality and efficiency
• Be familiar with shell and programming language for scripting(Python, Go,...)

Responsibilities

• Perform database operations, including monitoring, configuration management, upgrade, scaling, backup, and data migration
• Iterate on database operations to improve quality and efficiency
• Troubleshoot stability and performance problems
• Contribute to documentation for communicating knowledge, experience and for effective decision-making
• Research and test new tools in database ecosystems, and adopt them in PayPay
• Make sure to satisfy requirements for datastores in PayPay
• Provide support for application teams to keep sustainable operations
• R&D to resolve issues from datastore perspective

Preferred Qualifications

• Have experience in automating operations related to Database or AWS
• Be familiar with Jenkins, Ansible, Docker, Kubernetes
• Have working experience in a full remote environment
• Have experience in operating distributed systems
• Have experience working with NewSQL databases (like TiDB)
• Have experience with DBs cost reduction
• Have experience with software development which use Database

Benefits

• Social Insurance (health insurance, employee pension, employment insurance and compensation insurance)
• 401K
• Translation/Interpretation support
• VISA sponsor + Relocation support
• 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)
• Salary 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
• Work From Anywhere at Anytime
• You can live anywhere in Japan
• Super Flex Time (No Core Time)
• In principle, 9:00am-5:45pm (actual working hours: 7h45m + 1h break)
• Every Sat/Sun/National holidays (In Japan)/New Year's break/Company-designated Special days