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Data Engineer, DaaS

PayPay Minato-ku, Tokyo November 20 2025
  • 💴 No salary range given
  • 🏡
    Partially remote
  • 🌏
    Apply from abroad
    Relocate to Japan
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    No Japanese required
    Business English
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    Senior level
    7+ years experience required

About PayPay

PayPay Minato-ku, Tokyo

With over 70M million registered users (as of July 2025), PayPay is the country’s most popular mobile wallet used by approximately one out of every two smartphone users in Japan.

Key benefits

  • International engineering team
  • Incredible scale

About the position

PayPay’s rapid growth necessitates the expansion of its product teams and underscores the critical need for a resilient Data Engineering Platform. This platform is vital to support our increasing business demands. The Data Pipeline team is tasked with creating, deploying, and managing this platform, utilizing leading technologies like Databricks, Delta Lake, Spark, Scala, and the AWS suite.

We are actively seeking skilled Data Engineers to join our team and contribute to scaling our platform across the organization.

Responsibilities

  • Create and manage robust data ingestion pipelines leveraging Databricks, Airflow, Kafka, and Terraform.
  • Ensure high performance, reliability, and efficiency by optimizing large-scale data pipelines.
  • Develop data processing workflows using Databricks, Snowflake, Delta Lake, and Spark technologies.
  • Maintain and improve the Data Lakehouse, utilizing Unity Catalog for efficient data management and discovery.
  • Construct automation, frameworks, and enhanced tools to streamline data engineering workflows.
  • Collaborate across teams to facilitate smooth data flow and integration.
  • Enforce best practices in observability, data governance, security, and regulatory compliance.

Requirements

  • Minimum 7 years as a Data Engineer or similar role.
  • Hands-on experience with Databricks, Snowflake, Delta Lake, Spark, and Scala.
  • Proven ability to design, build, and operate Data Lakes or Data Warehouses.
  • Proficiency with Data Orchestration tools (Airflow, Dagster, Prefect).
  • Familiarity with Change Data Capture tools (Canal, Debezium, Maxwell).
  • Strong command of at least one primary language (Scala, Python, etc.) and SQL.
  • Experience with data catalog and metadata management (Unity Catalog, Lakeformation).
  • Experience in Infrastructure as Code (IaC) using Terraform.
  • Excellent problem-solving and debugging abilities for complex data challenges.
  • Strong communication and collaboration skills.
  • Capability to make informed decisions, learn quickly, and consider complex technical contexts.

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