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Senior Site Reliability Engineer - Marketing Cloud Platform Department (MCPD)

Tokyo, JapanFull-time2026-10-16 → 2026-11-10

Core

Drive operational excellence for Rakuten's marketing platforms by implementing SRE best practices, managing incidents, and automating infrastructure to support high-volume campaign executions and real-time personalization.

Role type

Senior Site Reliability Engineer (Platform Engineering)

Builds

Highly available marketing platforms serving millions of customers globally

Domain

E-commerce / Fintech / Marketing Technology

Deliverable

production ML models | infrastructure

Required skills

SRE strategy (SLO/SLI, error budgets), incident management, observability (monitoring, logging, tracing), automation, capacity planning, cloud platforms (GCP/AWS/Azure), containerization (Kubernetes, Docker), Infrastructure as Code (Terraform, Ansible), CI/CD pipelines, Python/Go/Java

Preferred skills

Leading high-performing teams in distributed environments, chaos engineering, production readiness reviews

Technologies

GCP, AWS, Azure, Kubernetes, Docker, Terraform, Ansible, Prometheus, Grafana, Datadog, ELK Stack

Responsibilities

Define and drive SRE strategy including SLO/SLI frameworks; Establish and improve incident management processes; Collaborate with development teams to embed reliability practices; Design and implement comprehensive observability solutions; Drive automation initiatives to reduce toil; Partner with Architecture and Platform teams on infrastructure decisions; Manage capacity planning and performance optimization; Report on reliability metrics and operational health

Seniority

Senior, hands-on IC with people management responsibilities