Cloud Platform Engineer (DB Specialist)

**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:** Database operations, including monitoring, configuration management, upgrade, scaling, backup, and data migration. Iterate on database operations to improve quality and efficiency Troubleshoot stability and performance problems Contribute to documentation for communicating knowledge, experience and for effective decision-making Research and test new tools in database ecosystems, and adopt them in PayPay Group. Requirements More than 5 years of DBA experience with a minimum of 3 years MySQL or PostgreSQL experience. More than 3 years of AWS experience in recent years Hands-on experience with Infra as Code (IaC - terraform) Interested in new technologies and willing to improve operational quality and efficiency Familiar with shell and programming language for scripting (Python, Go,…) Nice to haves While not specifically required, tell us if you have any of the following. Experience in automating operations related to Database or AWS. Familiarity with Jenkins, Ansible, Docker, Kubernetes Working experience in a full remote environment Experience in operating distributed systems Experience working with NoSQL such as Redis, Valkey and DynamoDB Experience working with NewSQL databases (like TiDB) Experience with DBs cost reduction Experience with DBs Disaster Recovery strategies APPLY FOR THIS POSITION DO YOU NEED MORE INFO? ASK A QUESTION Meet PayPay's Developers Growing your career by asking for you want with Ashwini Meshram Ashwini leads one of PayPay’s payment sub-teams. She got there by doing something she’s done throughout her career: identifying something she wants to do and asking to do it. Read their story... Refactoring PayPay’s Android App with Adrian Mariadas Adrian came to Japan to join PayPay as an Android Engineer. As the app has grown in scope, refactoring the codebase to ensure development can continue at a rapid pace has been a big part of his job. Read their story... iOS Development at PayPay with Yoseph Savianto Yoseph joined PayPay after being attracted to their mission of making Japan a cashless society. As an iOS Engineer, he originally joined their iOS feature team, but now works on their platform team, creating an internal SDK for their iOS and Android apps. Read their story... Rapidly scaling to tens of millions of users with Shilei Long Shilei started working on PayPay before it launched, and has seen it grow into a product used by tens of millions of users. He explains how diversity has helped them overcome challenges, and what PayPay is looking for in candidates. Read their story... 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 Get the newsletter × Insights into starting and growing your career as an English speaking developer in Japan, and new job opportunities as they are posted. **Requirements:** More than 5 years of DBA experience with a minimum of 3 years MySQL or PostgreSQL experience. More than 3 years of AWS experience in recent years Hands-on experience with Infra as Code (IaC - terraform) Interested in new technologies and willing to improve operational quality and efficiency Familiar with shell and programming language for scripting (Python, Go,…) **Nice to have:** While not specifically required, tell us if you have any of the following. Experience in automating operations related to Database or AWS. Familiarity with Jenkins, Ansible, Docker, Kubernetes Working experience in a full remote environment Experience in operating distributed systems Experience working with NoSQL such as Redis, Valkey and DynamoDB Experience working with NewSQL databases (like TiDB) Experience with DBs cost reduction Experience with DBs Disaster Recovery strategies APPLY FOR THIS POSITION DO YOU NEED MORE INFO? ASK A QUESTION Meet PayPay's Developers Growing your career by asking for you want with Ashwini Meshram Ashwini leads one of PayPay’s payment sub-teams. She got there by doing something she’s done throughout her career: identifying something she wants to do and asking to do it. Read their story... Refactoring PayPay’s Android App with Adrian Mariadas Adrian came to Japan to join PayPay as an Android Engineer. As the app has grown in scope, refactoring the codebase to ensure development can continue at a rapid pace has been a big part of his job. Read their story... iOS Development at PayPay with Yoseph Savianto Yoseph joined PayPay after being attracted to their mission of making Japan a cashless society. As an iOS Engineer, he originally joined their iOS feature team, but now works on their platform team, creating an internal SDK for their iOS and Android apps. Read their story... Rapidly scaling to tens of millions of users with Shilei Long Shilei started working on PayPay before it launched, and has seen it grow into a product used by tens of millions of users. He explains how diversity has helped them overcome challenges, and what PayPay is looking for in candidates. Read their story... 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 Get the newsletter × Insights into starting and growing your career as an English speaking developer in Japan, and new job opportunities as they are posted.