Infrastructure Engineer

Buzzreach Minato-ku, Tokyo
  • 💴 ¥8M ~ ¥12M annually
  • 🏡 Partially remote
  • 🧪 3+ years experience required
  • 💬 Conversational Japanese
  • 🌏 Apply from abroad
  • 🧳 Relocate to Japan
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About Buzzreach

Buzzreach Minato-ku, Tokyo

Buzzreach provides localized subject recruitment and retention solutions to match the right patients with the latest clinical trials, and provides a whole host of subject recruitment and retention support along the way – making sure that everyone reaches their end goals in the shortest amount of time.

About the position

Tech Stack

  • Frontend: Vue.js/Nuxt3, Node.js, nginx
  • Backend: Go, TypeScript, PHP8, Laravel
  • Data Store: Aurora MySQL, Redis
  • Environment: AWS, ECS (Fargate), Docker
  • Version Control: GitHub, Bitbucket
  • UI Design: Adobe XD, Figma
  • Others: Flutter, Slack, Jira, Confluence, Google Workspace

Responsibilities

  • Improve the operational environment for various services at Buzzreach
  • Develop and operate tools to automate various operations
  • Build and manage a monitoring environment for failure detection and capacity planning
  • Manage applications and middleware, improving performance

Requirements

  • 3+ years of experience as an SRE or DevOps engineer
  • Experience in leading the design of infrastructure architecture for web services
  • Development and operation experience in cloud environments like AWS
  • Experience in infrastructure development and operation using Infrastructure as Code (IaC) tools like Terraform
  • Experience designing, developing, and operating monitoring systems using tools like Prometheus or SaaS solutions like Datadog
  • Conversational Japanese

Nice to haves

While not specifically required, tell us if you have any of the following.

  • Experience in performance tuning and building high availability for middleware such as Elasticsearch (OpenSearch) or MySQL
  • Experience with Policy as Code using tools like Conftest
  • Experience in designing and operating SLIs, SLOs, and SLAs
  • Experience in designing, operating, and building large-scale services
  • Experience in both frontend and backend development and operations
  • Experience in the development and operation of serverless applications and infrastructure
  • Strong communication skills for collaborating with stakeholders and executing tasks
  • Experience in the development and operation of healthcare-related systems

Compensation

8 to 12 million JPY annually.

Hiring Process

  1. 1

    Resume screening

  2. 2

    Screening interview

    Conducted by HR and team members to assess cultural fit, personality, and past experience.

  3. 3

    Technical interview

    Led by the development team lead to evaluate technical skills and past development experience

  4. 4

    Final interview

    With the CEO and executives, focusing on whether the candidate will elevate the company’s overall level.

  5. 5

    Offer meeting

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