Software Engineer (Site Reliability) - Recipe Business

Job Description

As a Site Reliability Engineer, you will help lead our team in making everyday cooking fun for people around the world through the power of technology.

What You’ll Be Doing

• Design and build service infrastructure using cloud platforms (e.g., AWS) and open source software
• Improve the performance of applications for a global user base
• Design and implement software to enhance scalability and availability
• Establish and maintain monitoring environments
• Develop software to support system maintenance and optimize development/operational processes
• Collaborate with product engineers to monitor and operate services
• Identify and resolve issues related to service reliability and developer productivity

What Makes This Role Meaningful

• Unique technical challenges in supporting a large, global user base
• Experience releasing features for a global audience
• Direct feedback from users worldwide
• Opportunity to work in the unique domain of cooking and address distinctive challenges

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Qualifications

Required

• Experience operating web application environments using Linux and container technologies
• Operational experience with Infrastructure as Code (IaC)
• Understanding of network protocols and architecture (e.g., TCP/IP, HTTP)
• Programming ability in at least one language
• English proficiency sufficient for reading and writing technical documentation
• Ability to communicate in basic Japanese within the team, with a willingness to learn

Preferred

• Experience developing and operating large-scale web services
• Experience with cloud services (AWS or Google Cloud Platform)
• Experience with container environments (Docker, Amazon ECS, Kubernetes)
• Experience designing and operating monitoring environments (e.g., Prometheus)
• Advanced understanding and operational experience with database software (MySQL, Redis)
• Advanced understanding and operational experience with Linux and middleware (e.g., NGINX, HAProxy)
• Development experience in Ruby, Go, Python, or Rust
• Source-level understanding of Ruby on Rails
• Advanced understanding of protocols such as HTTP/2, TLS 1.3, gRPC
• Experience operating global web services using multi-region data centres
• Experience leading organisational or architectural initiatives (Tech Lead, CTO-like roles)
• Contributions to open source software or active in developer communities
• Experience speaking at conferences or academic events

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What We Look For

• Interest in building multi-language, globally-used applications
• Passion for cooking or recipe services
• Focus on understanding users and delivering B2C value while maintaining technical excellence
• Proactive in learning and adopting new technologies
• Ability to explain technical topics effectively
• Willingness to tackle new technical domains
• Leadership in defining service/technology direction

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Employment Details

• Location: Ohashi, Meguro-ward, Tokyo
• Working Hours: Flex time with no core time
• Salary Increase & Bonus: Eligible for annual revision based on evaluations
• Allowances:
  • Visa support for overseas hires
  • Rented company housing (employee pays rent, not available during trial)
• Insurance:
  • Unemployment insurance
  • Industrial accident compensation insurance
  • Health insurance
  • Pension insurance
• Holidays:
  • Five-day workweek (Sat & Sun)
  • National holidays
  • Company-set holidays (e.g., year-end/New Year)
  • Paid leave
  • Special leave (condolence, marriage, spousal childbirth, bereavement)
  • Refreshment leave
  • Summer vacation (3 days)

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