Distributed Databases DevOps Engineer / LINE Platform

Position Outline

The Distributed Database Operations Engineer for the LINE's Messaging Platform and Developer Product Platform focuses on administrating, operating and troubleshooting distributed databases under high volume of data and traffic while ensuring high reliability goals.
It also dedicates to optimize operational process, costs and performance by the development of tools, automations and workflows.

Job Details

The Distributed Database DevOps Engineer focuses on administrating, operating and troubleshooting distributed databases under high volume of data and traffic while ensuring high reliability goals.
Specifically, the following tasks are expected:

Administration and operative work: databases deployment, restart, updates, etc.
Optimize operational processes, costs and performance by the development of tools, automations, Infrastructure as a Code and pipelines.
Oncall duties, monitoring, troubleshooting and incident/outage support.
Collaboration with SRE (Site Reliability Engineering) / DBRE(Database Reliability Engineering) teams (reporting, contacting) in order to ensure high reliability goals.
Collaboration with Customer Service, QA and other teams when required.

*Scope of Change: There is a possibility of reassignment to any duties as determined by the company.

Expectations

Join develop team as DevOps member, contribute to the business by performing daily operations, developing operational support tools, and acting as a QA (Quality Assurance) when needed.
Act as a seed member, train and guide members so that the team can operate as an independent storage operations team in the near future.

Learn About the Organization and People

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Ideal Candidate

Those who seek to improve the flow of operations and optimize cost and performance.
Those who can design solutions that address both current and future problems and work to provide solutions that enhance the overall operations of an organization.
Those who have deep knowledge and experience operating, solving and improving hardware and software problems that occur in large infrastructures and services that handle high amount of traffic.
Those who properly evaluate the root cause of the issue and works to create an effective solution.
Those who have the ability to describe their suggestions, observations and results accurately so the rest of the team understand and follow the procedures.
Those who contribute together with SRE/DBRE to achieve and adjust defined SLO to ensure high reliability standards through system monitoring, problem detection and immediate response.

Required Experience/Skills

DevOps Experience.
Basic knowledge of infrastructure and networks.
Basic knowledge of distributed systems or distributed databases.
Experience in server instance building automation and maintenance operations using scripting languages such as Shell, Python or Ruby and orchestration tools such as Ansible or Chef.
Experience with observability (monitoring) technologies and best practices.
Troubleshooting, skills to evaluate the root cause, Critical Incident Response and Postmortem Experience.
System On Call Experience.
Language
- Conversation skills in Japanese (intermediate or advanced level required).
- English skills (skills for written communication and reporting to internal and external developers).

Preferred Experience/Skills

Experience operating, solving and improving hardware and software problems that occur in large infrastructures and services that handle high amount of traffic.
SRE concepts and best practices.
Experience with system performance optimization.
Experience with BPC/DR plans.

Salary

Expected annual salary: JPY 6,000,000 to JPY 10,000,000
Form of salary: Monthly salary (including fixed overtime allowance)
Standard monthly salary: JPY 400,000 to JPY 667,000
(Breakdown of standard salary)
　―Base salary: JPY 309,000 to JPY 518,000
　―Fixed overtime allowance: JPY 90,000 to JPY 150,000

Fixed overtime allowance of 35 hours will be provided, regardless of whether overtime work is performed.
　Note 1: Overtime allowance is paid separately for overtime work in excess of the fixed 35 hours.
　Note 2: Names of items related to monthly salary vary depending on the grades.
　Bonuses are granted a maximum of two times a year. The amount is determined by factors including the company's and your department's performance.

Allowances

Overtime allowance, commuting allowance,*1 LY Corporation Working Style allowance,*2 etc.

*1 You will be paid for the number of days you actually came to the office. (Maximum of JPY150,000/month)
*2 Allowance to improve your remote work environment (JPY11,000/month)

Type and Period of Employment

Type of employment: permanent employee (no fixed period of employment, 3-month trial period)

*No fixed period of employment

Work Location

Kioicho Office (Kioi Tower, 1-3 Kioicho, Chiyoda-ku, Tokyo)

Some work may be required in the secure room. In such cases, you must be able to come to work within an hour to your office.
We welcome applicants who live within an hour's distance from their home to the Kioicho office, as it may be necessary for them to come to the office on short notice.

*You may be required to report to your assigned office based on work instructions. Initially, the office you report to will be your assigned location. Afterward, there is a possibility of reassignment to any business location determined by the company.
*The offices are wheelchair accessible.
*Note on measures against passive smoking: In principle, no smoking indoors (smoking rooms are available).

Work Hours

Flextime system: standard work hours 7 hours 45 minutes (no core hours)
- Start and end times are up to the individual. However, the company's standard working hours are from 9:30 a.m. to 6:15 p.m.
Shortened working hours system available for childcare and caregiving.

*Some departments may operate on the standard work hours (9:30 a.m. - 6:15 p.m.), while others may have a shift schedule.

Holidays and Leave

Days Off: Two days off per week (Saturdays and Sundays*1), national holidays, New Year's holiday (December 29 to January 4)
Leave: Paid leave, special paid leave (for condolence, maternity, sick childcare, nursing care, legally-designated communicable disease, etc.), Happy Friday*2, sabbatical leave

*1 May differ depending on department.
*2 When a public holiday falls on a Saturday, employees will be given the previous business day off.

Benefits

Comprehensive social insurance (health insurance, nursing care insurance, welfare pension insurance, employment insurance, workers' compensation insurance), Optional Defined Contribution (DC) Pension Plan, Comprehensive Welfare Group Term Insurance, Group Long-term Disability, Employee Savings Program, Cumulative Stock Investment Program, subsidy for re-examination after regular basic/comprehensive health checkup, in-house massage room, club activities, subsidy for employee social events, and more

Talent Development/Support Systems

Training for Employees, Language Courses, Management Training, LY Corporation Job Challenge, Sabbatical Leave, Doctoral Studies Support Program, and more

Selection Process

Step1

Application
Step2

Coding test/Assignment
Step3

Interviews/ Background Check
Step4

Offer

How to Apply

Please fill out and submit the application form. To assess your eligibility for the position, we kindly ask you to provide the necessary personal information on the application form. Please note that this information will only be used for recruitment purposes. Please also note that your resume or other submitted documents will not be returned.

Document Screening

You will be notified of the results of the selection process within two weeks at the e-mail address you entered in the application form, regardless of whether your application is accepted or not. It may take about one week longer if the application period falls during the Golden Week and the New Year holidays.

Interview, aptitude test, technical test, compliance check/reference check

Applicants who pass the document screening will be required to undergo multiple interviews, aptitude/technical tests, compliance checks, and reference checks, although the details vary depending on the position.

You will be notified of the results of the selection process within two weeks at the e-mail address you entered in the application form, regardless of whether your application is accepted or not.

The schedule will vary depending on interviews and other factors, but if everything goes smoothly, an internal offer will be made within about four to six weeks after the application is submitted. Please note that we will not respond to inquiries regarding the details or criteria of the selection process or the reasons for the results, regardless of the results of your application.

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