Job Description:
Platform Engineer
Job Overview
Rakuten Rewards is seeking a Platform Engineer to join our Platform Engineering team. The Platform Engineering team is a DevOps discipline with the goal of delivering innovative, automated, and self-service platform's using cost-effective technologies to meet the needs of autonomous product development teams (Tribes & Squads).
The ideal candidate will have a strong understanding of Software Development along with DevOps principles and practices, as well as some experience with cloud computing platforms such as AWS, GCP, or Azure and a strong development mindset. As a member of the Platform Engineering team the Platform Engineer will be responsible to:
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- Collaborate with the platform engineering team to design and implement software solutions in a secure, robust and scalable way.
- Collaborate with development teams to understand application requirements and optimize delivery processes to increase engineering productivity
- Maintain comprehensive documentation for configurations, processes, and procedures.
- Understand the importance of fast feedback cycles and early discovery of bugs
- Quantify the costs of low-productivity development environments that waste time waiting for slow builds, tests, and CI/CD pipelines
- Organize the data required to understand, troubleshoot, and improve essential development processes like builds, tests, and CI/CD pipelines
- Use data to proactively improve the reliability of the development toolchain
Minimum Requirements (Knowledge, Skills, Abilities)
- Bachelor's degree in Computer Science or related field
- Passionate about learning, automating, challenging the status quo and developing innovative solutions to solve business problems.
- Golang programming experience is a must
- Experienced in CI/CD tools such as GitHub Action, Jenkins
- Experience with automated testing and continuous integration
- Familiarity with cloud-native technologies, such as Kubernetes and Docker
- Strong problem-solving and analytical skills
- Ability to work independently and as part of a team.
Qualification Requirements
- Bachelor's degree in Computer Science or equivalent years of work experience
- 3+ years of experience developing applications using the Go programming language
- 3+ Experience with CI/CD tools such as Jenkins or GitHub Actions.
- 1-2 years of experience in DevOps.
- 1-2 Experience with cloud computing platforms such as AWS, GCP, or Azure.
- Excellent collaboration and communication skills
- Strong understanding of computer science principles, algorithms, and data structures
- Experience writing automated tests with Go's testing frameworks like Ginkgo, or GoConvey
- Experience with concurrent programming concepts, such as channels and goroutines
Nice to Have
- Experience with AI/ML technologies, including OpenAI, LLM, and AI-based code generators to innovate solutions for increasing productivity within the engineering organization
- Experience with AI/ML Pipelines to improve software development and operational processes
- Experience with ChatGPT, Bard or similar for internal chatbot development projects
- Experience with Copilot, Code Whisperer or similar for local development
RAKUTEN SHUGI PRINCIPLES
Our worldwide practices describe specific behaviors that make Rakuten unique and united across the world. We expect Rakuten employees to model these 5 Shugi Principles of Success.
- Always improve, always advance. Only be satisfied with complete success - Kaizen.
- Be passionately professional. Take an uncompromising approach to your work and be determined to be the best.
- Hypothesize - Practice - Validate - Shikumika. Use the Rakuten Cycle to success in unknown territory.
- Maximize Customer Satisfaction. The greatest satisfaction for workers in a service industry is to see their customers smile.
- Speed!! Speed!! Speed!! Always be conscious of time. Take charge, set clear goals, and engage your team.
Five Principles for Success
Our worldwide practices describe specific behaviors that make Rakuten unique and united across the world. We expect Rakuten employees to model these 5 Shugi Principles of Success.
Always improve, Always Advance - Only be satisfied with complete success - Kaizen
Passionately Professional - Take an uncompromising approach to your work and be determined to be the best
Hypothesize - Practice - Validate - Shikumika - Use the Rakuten Cycle to succeed in unknown territory
Maximize Customer Satisfaction - The greatest satisfaction for our teams is seeing their customers smile
Speed!! Speed!! Speed!! - Always be conscious of time - take charge, set clear goals, and engage your team
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