Data Infrastructure Engineer

**About the company:** PayPay Minato-ku, Tokyo With over 70M million registered users (as of July 2025), PayPay is the country’s most popular mobile wallet used by approximately one out of every two smartphone users in Japan. **Responsibilities:** Design, build, and manage AWS cloud infrastructure using Terraform, following IaC and GitOps practices Operate and improve the Databricks Lakehouse platform — workspace provisioning, configuration management, and day-to-day reliability Build and maintain platform services and tooling that support data engineers across PayPay Group companies Strengthen system reliability through SRE practices: monitoring, alerting, dashboarding, and incident response Implement and enforce data governance and security controls in line with compliance requirements Collaborate with data engineering teams on infrastructure needs for their projects and workloads Participate in on-call rotation and operational support for the data platform Requirements 3+ years of experience in infrastructure or platform engineering Hands-on experience with Terraform and Infrastructure as Code workflows Working knowledge of AWS — IAM, VPC, S3, EC2, and multi-account setups Familiarity with CI/CD pipelines (GitHub Actions, Jenkins, or equivalent) Experience with monitoring and observability tools (Prometheus, Grafana, or similar) Scripting ability in Python and/or Shell Solid fundamentals in Linux/Unix, networking (DNS, HTTP, basic OSI model), and security best practices Nice to haves While not specifically required, tell us if you have any of the following. Experience with Databricks, EMR, or other data platform technologies Exposure to Kubernetes and GitOps tooling (EKS, ArgoCD) Familiarity with Kafka or event-based data ingestion patterns (CDC, batch consumption) Familiarity with workflow orchestration tools (Airflow, Dagster, Prefect) Experience with Spark, Hadoop, or large-scale data processing frameworks Background in platform engineering — building internal tooling, developer experience, or self-service infrastructure APPLY FOR THIS POSITION DO YOU NEED MORE INFO? ASK A QUESTION About PayPay PayPay Minato-ku, Tokyo With over 70M million registered users (as of July 2025), PayPay is the country’s most popular mobile wallet used by approximately one out of every two smartphone users in Japan. Key benefits International engineering team Japanese lessons on company time Incredible scale Read more More jobs like this We'll send you a digest of new English-friendly software developer jobs in Japan. 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This helps to keep this job board sustainable, so I'd be grateful for your support with this. - Paul, Founder of TokyoDev Continue applying © 2026 Privacy Policy **Requirements:** Collaborate with data engineering teams on infrastructure needs for their projects and workloads Participate in on-call rotation and operational support for the data platform Requirements 3+ years of experience in infrastructure or platform engineering Hands-on experience with Terraform and Infrastructure as Code workflows Working knowledge of AWS — IAM, VPC, S3, EC2, and multi-account setups Familiarity with CI/CD pipelines (GitHub Actions, Jenkins, or equivalent) Experience with monitoring and observability tools (Prometheus, Grafana, or similar) Scripting ability in Python and/or Shell Solid fundamentals in Linux/Unix, networking (DNS, HTTP, basic OSI model), and security best practices **Nice to have:** While not specifically required, tell us if you have any of the following. Experience with Databricks, EMR, or other data platform technologies Exposure to Kubernetes and GitOps tooling (EKS, ArgoCD) Familiarity with Kafka or event-based data ingestion patterns (CDC, batch consumption) Familiarity with workflow orchestration tools (Airflow, Dagster, Prefect) Experience with Spark, Hadoop, or large-scale data processing frameworks Background in platform engineering — building internal tooling, developer experience, or self-service infrastructure APPLY FOR THIS POSITION DO YOU NEED MORE INFO? ASK A QUESTION About PayPay PayPay Minato-ku, Tokyo With over 70M million registered users (as of July 2025), PayPay is the country’s most popular mobile wallet used by approximately one out of every two smartphone users in Japan. Key benefits International engineering team Japanese lessons on company time Incredible scale Read more More jobs like this We'll send you a digest of new English-friendly software developer jobs in Japan. Your email stays private, we don't share or sell it. Apply for this position × I have a favour to ask. When you apply to PayPay, please select "Tokyo Dev" from the Application route field . This helps to keep this job board sustainable, so I'd be grateful for your support with this. - Paul, Founder of TokyoDev Continue applying © 2026 Privacy Policy