Software Engineer, Platform Infrastructure

About SmartNews

News should be for everyone. But not when it’s buried under cat videos—or when your internet is spotty—or when it’s in a filter bubble. That’s why we created SmartNews.

Our mission is to discover and deliver quality stories to the world. To accomplish this:

We are a machine learning company. News should be impartial, trending and trustworthy. Our algorithms evaluate millions of articles, social signals and human interactions to deliver the top 0.01% of stories that matter most, right now.

We love content. News should be sustainable. We support quality journalism and respect publishers by sharing article traffic and revenue.

Please note that we will only consider you for one application at a time.

Position

Responsibilities:

• Lead our worldwide team of engineers to operational excellence. Discover modern best practices and make them available through productivity-increasing tooling
• Empower teams to provide reliable systems. Facilitate the operation of service level objectives (SLO), on-call rotations and blameless post-mortems
• Drive the construction of a multi-regional cloud-native infrastructure that delivers performance to our global user base
• Optimize the processes for trimming down infrastructure costs and tuning our fleet of instances for maximum efficiency

Your qualification

Minimum qualifications:

• Administration experience in container orchestration platforms, preferably using Kubernetes and demonstrated by the Certified Kubernetes Administrator (CKA) certificate
• Experience in observability (monitoring, logging and tracing) for cloud-based environments, using CNCF tools such as Grafana, Prometheus, Thanos, Jaeger or SaaS tools such as Datadog
• Expertise in maintaining self-service CI/CD platforms and supporting techniques like Trunk-Based development, GitOps-based deployments or automated canary releases
• Production experience in at least one programming language, for example Go, Java, Kotlin, Python, Ruby, or JavaScript
• Business level communication in English

Preferred Skills and experience

• Strong knowledge of fundamental AWS services with a certification as an AWS Associate or above
• Proficiency in operating public cloud services using infrastructure-as-code tools like Terraform or CloudFormation
• Passion to stay up-to-date with latest industry topics in Site Reliability Engineering (SRE), the Cloud Native Computing Foundation (CNCF), DevOps and the AWS Well-Architected Framework
• Knowledge of common application architecture patterns: distributed systems, microservices, asynchronous processing, event-driven systems, and others

What we offer

• Support programs for self-improvement and career development (language learning, etc.)
• SmartKitchen - Healthy lunch on a daily basis for free (Tokyo Office)
• ChikyuCoffee - Delicious coffee provided by our Barista every day (Tokyo Office)
• Transportation coverage (maximum 50,000 yen)
• Various social insurance benefits included