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About PayPay
PayPay, a FinTech company that has achieved more than 69M users (as of May 2025) since its launch in 2018, is rapidly expanding its business scale as a payment platform used by approximately one out of every two smartphone users in Japan.
The company has a diverse team of professionals from more than 50 countries and is building a world-class engineering organization.
Our biggest competitor is "cash". They are seeking people who can accept this challenge positively, brush up on the product at a tremendous speed that other companies could never achieve, and who are passionate about promoting and spreading such a financial life platform in a short time along with professionalism.
PayPay is committed to maintaining a "Day 1" mindset, bringing to life visions of the future that no one else can even imagine. At PayPay, we provide an environment where everyone can deliver outstanding performance as professionals, through a flexible work style that includes remote and office.
Position
PayPay is looking for a Cloud Platform Engineer for PayPay's Cloud Based payment system. This role will be responsible for the engineering of Cloud Infrastructure Platforms to provide robust, reliable and cost-efficient Platform so that we can deliver the best experience for our growing customers base.
Primary Responsibilities
- Architect and build a robust, scalable and stable infrastructure
- Architect and build Infrastructure that is easily maintainable during patching and upgrades without downtime
- Architect and build Infrastructure with AWS regional level failure tolerance
- Work together with our Security Engineers to provision a secure Infrastructure
- Automations for AWS Deployments to ensure fast delivery of Cloud Services to our developers
- Provide through Automations means for developers to easily deploy resources on AWS
Tech Stack
- AWS:
- VPC, EC2, ECS, EKS, Lambda, Cloudfront, MWAA, RDS, ElastiCache, DynamoDB, Opensearch, S3, CloudWatch, Cognito, SQS, KMS, Secret Manager, KMS, MSK, CodeCommit, CodeBuild, CodeDeploy, CodePipeline, CloudFormation and other services
- Terraform, Github Actions, Prometheus, Grafana, Atlantis, ArgoCD, OpenTelemetry
Your qualification
- More than 8 years of technical experience in cloud-based infrastructure platforms
- Extensive technical hands-on experience with computing, storage, and analytical services on AWS
- Demonstrated skill in programming and scripting languages, including Python, Shell Scripting, Go, and Rust
- Experience with infrastructure as code (IAC) tools in AWS, such as Terraform, CloudFormation, and CDK
- Proficient in Linux internals and system administration
- Experience in production level infrastructure change management and releases for high traffic & business-critical systems
- Experience in Cloud infrastructure and platform systems availability, performance and cost management
- Strong understanding of cloud security best practices and payment industry compliance standards
- Ability to demonstrate a high degree of ownership in a production environment, including incident management and cross-team collaboration
- Experience with cloud services monitoring, detection, and response, as well as performance tuning and cost control
- Familiarity with cloud infrastructure service patching and upgrades
- Good understanding and experience with network especially on cloud platforms
- Experience in AI/ML infrastructure design and operations
- Excellent oral, written, and interpersonal communication skills
- Proficiency in either English or Japanese
Preferred Qualifications
- Bachelor’s degree and above in a technology related field
- Experience with other cloud service providers (e.g GCP, Azure)
- Experience with Kubernetes
- Experience with Event-Driven Architecture (Kafka preferred)
- Experience using and contributing to Open Source tools
- Experience in managing IT compliance and security risk
- Published papers / blogs / articles
- Relevant and verifiable certifications
- Bilingual in English and Japanese is nice to have, but not required
- JLPT Level 3 or above
What we offer
- Social Insurance (health insurance, employee pension, employment insurance and compensation insurance)
- 401K
- Language Learning support
- Translation/Interpretation support
- VISA sponsor + Relocation support
Additional details
PayPay 5 senses
- Please refer PayPay 5 senses to learn what we value at work
Working Conditions
Employment Status
- Full Time
Office Location
- Hybrid Workstyle (flexible working style including Remote and office)
*There are no fixed rules regarding office attendance in Product group; it depends on each individual's discretion.
Work Hours
- Super Flex Time (No Core Time)
- In principle, 9:00am-5:45pm (actual working hours: 7h45m + 1h break)
Holidays
- Every Sat/Sun/National holidays (In Japan)/New Year's break/Company-designated Special days
Paid leave
- Annual leave (up to 14 days in the first year, granted proportionally according to the month of employment. Can be used from the date of hire)
- Personal leave (5 days each year, granted proportionally according to the month of employment)
*PayPay's own special paid leave system, which can be used to attend to illnesses, injuries, hospital visits, etc., of the employee, family members, pets, etc.
Salary
- Annual salary paid in 12 installments (monthly)
- Based on skills, experience, and abilities
- Reviewed once a year
- Special Incentive once a year *Based on company performance and individual contribution and evaluation
- Late overtime allowance
*Payroll payment can be changed to digital salary payment “PayPay Paycheck” for an amount set by you
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