Senior Site Reliability Engineer - Team Lead

Tokyo, Japan

Unverified relocation package

About Rapyuta Robotics

Our Core Purpose: Empowering Lives with Connected Machines.

Based on our core value of empathy we strongly believe that the dirty, dull, and dangerous work should be automated and people should be given an option to take up more intellectually challenging and creative work. We want to enable this automation with machines that are connected and coordinated in a streamlined manner.
Core Purpose (a.k.a. mission) is the organization’s most fundamental reason for being. It reflects our idealistic motivation for doing our work.

Position

Site Reliability Engineering combines skills of software and systems engineering. Your key responsibility is to focus on optimizing existing systems, building infrastructure, and eliminating work through automation to make them more reliable and ensure the highest possible up-time for a cloud-based robotics system.

Your responsibilities will include the following but not limited to:

Leading the SRE team, mentoring junior engineers and supporting delivery excellence
Supporting services before they go live through activities such as system design consulting, capacity planning, and launch reviews
Maintaining services once they are live by measuring and monitoring availability, latency, and overall system health
Engaging in and improve the whole lifecycle of services—from inception and design, through deployment, operation, and refinement
Scaling systems sustainably through mechanisms like automation, and evolving systems by pushing for changes that improve reliability and velocity
Practicing sustainable incident response and postmortems
Building and evolving the operations handbook

Your qualification

Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science or a similar technical field of study, or equivalent practical experience with an outstanding track record
At least 5 years of experience in product development and/or supporting operations
Mastery of one or more of the following programming languages including but not limited to Python, Golang, Ruby, Bash
Expertise with Configuration Management, Docker, IaaS, PaaS, Continuous Delivery, Continuous Integration, DevOps, ChatOps
Solid understanding of network fundamentals and practical experience troubleshooting networked services
Demonstrated proficiency with: Linux systems, public cloud platforms, and associated tools/technologies
Fluency in English

Will be a plus

Extremely organized, detail oriented and thorough in every undertaking
Ability to balance multiple tasks and projects effectively and quickly adapt to new variables
Experience in designing, analyzing and troubleshooting distributed systems E
xperience with team management
Systematic problem-solving approach, coupled with strong communication skills and a sense of ownership and drive
Ability to debug and optimize code and automate routine tasks