Job Description:

Business Overview

Rakuten is one of the biggest marketplace of Japan and is the largest internet ecosystem with a wide range of services ranging from e-Commerce, Travel, Banking, Fintech, Food Delivery, Golf, Insurance, Instant Messaging, Mobile Network etc. Rakuten has over 140 services globally. Our mission is to empower people and society through the internet while aiming at becoming the Global Innovation Company.

Department Overview

The "AI Lab" organization within Rakuten is focused on advancing artificial intelligence applications across the company. It plays a key role in developing innovative AI solutions, and fostering collaboration to integrate AI into various Rakuten services.

The AI Application Engineering Group within the focuses on developing and implementing AI-driven applications to support various business needs. This group works on creating scalable, efficient, and innovative solutions by leveraging AI technologies to enhance Rakuten's services and operations.

Position:

Position Details

The AI application engineering group is looking for Platform engineer to join us.

List of responsibilities includes:

Design, document, implement and improve our platform infrastructure to support the application development, delivery, and maintenance process.

Monitor/maintain the application services to ensure stability, security and high availability (perform load testing, participate in and support security audits).

Regular deployment and delivery of applications to production in coordination with other developers.

Support to test, troubleshoot, diagnose and fix production/staging application issues.

Mandatory Qualifications:

- 3+ years of hands-on experience in software development and DevOps.

- Experience with Kubernetes, containers.

- Experience with Jenkins CI/CD & Automation.

- Has been using at least one of the following programming languages: java, javascript, typescript.

- Experience with Linux systems usage, Linux command line shell (bash etc.) and troubleshooting.

- Experience with monitoring solutions.

- Good understanding of software delivery methods.

Desired Qualifications:

- Experience with Platform engineering & DevOps best practices.

- Experience with application packaging.

- Experience with troubleshooting live applications.

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