Platform Engineer, Platform and Reliability Engineering Department

**About the company:** Money Forward Minato-ku, Tokyo Money Forward is a fintech startup delivering tools to visualize and improve both individuals'​ and companies'​ financial health. **Responsibilities:** Overview As a Platform Engineer, you will be responsible for building and operating the common infrastructure (EKS platform) used by various applications of Money Forward. Development, operation, and maintenance related to the EKS environment Development, operation, and maintenance of tools related to the above Specific Tasks within the Team The following are some of the tasks. We will discuss them during the interview process. Upgrading EKS and related add-ons Development and maintenance of OSS and tools used in the EKS environment (such as Karpenter and Vault) Monitoring, alert setting, and incident response using Datadog Designing, building, and operating platforms (CI/CD, development environment, test environment, etc.) to maximize the productivity of the development team Performance optimization and creating mechanisms for it Other infrastructure environment settings (such as TrangitGateway) Cost optimization Job Responsibilities for the Position As a technical driving force in this team, you are expected to perform the following tasks: Design and operation policy formulation of medium- to long-term architecture as a common platform Architecture design of long-term EKS platform and related tools, and formulation and implementation of operation policies and guidelines in anticipation of business expansion and changes Improvement of reliability across services and implementation of common functions Promotion of service reliability improvement through SLO design as infrastructure and design and development of common platform functions such as monitoring, log collection, and authentication Promotion of standardization and automation of the platform Automation and standardization of infrastructure construction and deployment using Terraform, Helm, ArgoCD, etc., and promotion of measures to reduce cognitive load on developers Technical leadership of the infrastructure team Improvement of the team’s technical capabilities and productivity through leading technology selection/design, code review, and troubleshooting Requirements Practical experience in design and operation in the fields of SRE, DevOps, or infrastructure (5+ years) Practical experience in development and operation of production systems using cloud environments (especially AWS) Experience using container orchestration systems such as Kubernetes or ECS Experience in building and utilizing monitoring environments using monitoring and observability tools Practical experience with Infrastructure as Code (IaC) (tools such as Terraform are not specified) Development experience through mutual review using Pull Requests with Git Fluent in English Nice to haves While not specifically required, tell us if you have any of the following. Development and operation experience with AKS on Azure Experience in reducing the burden on development teams and enhancing business value through Platform Engineering Experience in designing and operating SLI/SLO Experience in AI development and/or experience in using AI tools to improve development processes. Money Forward recently announced our AI Strategy roadmap which focuses on improving AI-driven operational efficiencies, as well as integrating AI agents into our products to deliver better value to our users. Compensation ¥7,908,000 ~ ¥13,000,000 annually. **Requirements:** Practical experience in design and operation in the fields of SRE, DevOps, or infrastructure (5+ years) Practical experience in development and operation of production systems using cloud environments (especially AWS) Experience using container orchestration systems such as Kubernetes or ECS Experience in building and utilizing monitoring environments using monitoring and observability tools Practical experience with Infrastructure as Code (IaC) (tools such as Terraform are not specified) Development experience through mutual review using Pull Requests with Git Fluent in English **Nice to have:** While not specifically required, tell us if you have any of the following. Development and operation experience with AKS on Azure Experience in reducing the burden on development teams and enhancing business value through Platform Engineering Experience in designing and operating SLI/SLO Experience in AI development and/or experience in using AI tools to improve development processes. Money Forward recently announced our AI Strategy roadmap which focuses on improving AI-driven operational efficiencies, as well as integrating AI agents into our products to deliver better value to our users. **Compensation:** ¥7,908,000 ~ ¥13,000,000 annually.