Note: The job is a remote job and is open to candidates in USA. PayPay is a FinTech company providing financial services to users in Japan. The Cloud Platform Engineer will specialize in databases at scale for mission-critical systems, operating and optimizing storage services while improving reliability, performance, and operational efficiency.
Responsibilities
- 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 Group
Skills
- More than 5 years of DBA experience with a minimum of 3 years MySQL or PostgreSQL experience
- More than 3 years of AWS experience in recent years
- Hands-on experience with Infra as Code (IaC - terraform)
- Interested in new technologies and willing to improve operational quality and efficiency
- Familiar with shell and programming language for scripting(Python, Go,...)
- Experience in automating operations related to Database or AWS
- Familiarity with Jenkins, Ansible, Docker, Kubernetes
- Working experience in a full remote environment
- Experience in operating distributed systems
- Experience working with NoSQL such as Redis, Valkey and DynamoDB
- Experience working with NewSQL databases (like TiDB)
- Experience with DBs cost reduction
- Experience with DBs Disaster Recovery strategies
Benefits
- Hybrid Workstyle
- 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.
- Social Insurance (health insurance, employee pension, employment insurance and compensation insurance)
- 401K
- Translation/Interpretation support
- VISA sponsor + Relocation support
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