Lead our world-class cloud operations team working on our cloud infrastructure, CI/CD and devops, metrics and monitoring!
Take charge of task breakdown and planning based on the product roadmap as well as assignment of tasks to your team members
Coach, mentor, and lead team members by having robust conversations that develop careers and maintain a high-performing team
Follow up and report on task progress, help team members unblock obstacles in their work, and adapt to changes in priorities or strategy
Drive consistent standards and approaches to create clean, well-structured, and documented solutions and processes
Work together with the development team lead and VP of Engineering to develop a strong engineering culture and positive team spirit within the engineering department as a whole
This is a senior position that requires work experience as a team lead, project manager, engineering manager, or similar. A successful candidate is expected to have at least 10 years of experience in the software industry. The position reports to the VP of Engineering. This role can be synergistically combined with the Cloud Infrastructure Architect position, depending on your skills and experience.
Work together with the product team to develop our roadmap and provide input and feedback to the planning process based on current problems and workload of your team. Be part of the on-call support escalation ladder and handle alerts to ensure the high degree of availability and reliability that our customers expect.
Manage, implement, and support internal systems such as public and internal websites, GitLab, Redmine, PubSub/Functions/BigQuery setups, and developer environments. Work with development team members on devops issues and deployments etc. Work with bizdev, customer success, sales, and other Authlete members on resolving issues with internal and external systems.
You must speak English or Japanese well, and proficiency in both is a plus, as well as proficiency in other languages. Reading and writing in English is required for this position.
Kubernetes (GKE), Google Cloud Platform, Cloud Functions, Pub/Sub, BigQuery, GCE, containers, Go (infrastructure programming), Java (server development), Ruby (dev scripts), Prometheus, Grafana, AWS, CloudSQL, Spanner, Postgres, RDS, Java, Docker, OAuth 2, OpenID Connect, Slack bots, GitLab.
We provide a backend for implementing OAuth 2, OpenID Connect, Financial-grade API, Open Banking and related standards. Our services are widely used globally by customers in a wide range of industries such as fintech, banking, entertainment, healthcare, travel, and media.
Our work style is flexible; you will be entrusted with responsibility for your work and managing your time. Full remote or hybrid is possible. Full-time permanent or contract, or part-time is negotiable. We have offices in Palo Alto, Tokyo, and Dubai, and team members all over the world with a wide variety of backgrounds.
We have an office at Finolab (fintech startup center) in Otemachi (near Tokyo Station) where you can hang out with co-workers and join events. We accept candidates from outside Japan who can work remotely and have experience in managing their own time, such as freelancing. We are open to discussing supporting visa application and moving to Japan for members who have worked with us remotely first.