Senior Cloud Platform Network Engineer - Bangalore, India - Mercari

Description

Team :

The Platform Engineering teams are responsible for helping engineers at Mercari and its subsidiaries to build and deliver better products to our customers.

We provide infrastructure and DevOps toolchains to increase the reliability, security and observability of the service to make the work of engineers easy.

Within the platform group, there are multiple sub-teams that deal with specific layers and this position is for a senior platform engineer in the team which takes care of end-to-end network infrastructure from the edge (CDN) to the cloud & Kubernetes network layer(including servicemesh).

You can see more details about the team structure on our tech blog .

Recent or ongoing projects

The following are some of the recent or in-progress projects handled by the Network team.


Role :

We are looking for a senior software engineer for our Network team who will play a crucial role in ensuring the seamless integration of cloud network solutions and cutting-edge cloud-native technologies.

Our ideal candidate is a highly motivated individual, driven by a passion for enhancing developer productivity and committed to elevating the reliability, security, and observability of Mercari services.

Also, the ability to release, migrate and opera

Work responsibilities


What you will do :
Design, develop, and maintain platform features and toolings that support the entire software development cycle from build, test to deployment and operation

Support migration and adoption of new platform features and toolings

Improve platform stability, scalability, availability and security with the SRE and Security teams

Improve observability of services and the platform itself to reduce the incidents and control the overall cost

Improve and automate daily platform operations and reduce toils

Be an advocate of engineering best practices and communicate with internal developers to understand their needs

You may be fit if you

Are passionate about improving developer productivity and experience

Are passionate about building, operating and maintaining scalable infrastructures with operations automation

Are neutral on the technology itself and can take pragmatic approaches to the issues

Avoid reinventing the wheel and utilize the existing tooling and ecosystem as much as possible

Have good communication and interpersonal skills

Bold Challenges

Since the platform and its toolings are used not only by Japan marketplace but also by Japan fintech and Mercari US marketplace, the changes and improvements can affect the whole organization's performance from development agility to system reliability.

As a software engineer of the team, your implementation can have a truly significant impact.

The team needs to understand what the developers are struggling with and what is required for the Mercari Group's product development.

With this empathy and collection of requirements, the team prioritizes the problems to solve and decides the solution for them.

You can join this decision-making process and propose a pragmatic solution leveraging your knowledge and experience.

Minimum Requirements

At least 5 years of experience in development, operating and maintaining complex and scalable production systems

Experience in end-to-end infrastructure management, automation and system architecture design

Experience in writing design docs or proposals and reaching agreements with stakeholders

Experience in using container management platforms (ex: Kubernetes, Docker) in production

Experience in operating and being the admin of cloud (GCP, AWS or Azure) in production

Strong experience in implementing and managing infrastructure as code (IaC) solutions like Terraform

Good understanding of common software development lifecycle (SDLC)

Good understanding of Linux networking and troubleshooting

Experience working with network proxies such as Envoy/HAProxy/Nginx

Strong understanding of networking, especially OSI Layer 4 to 7: load balancers, proxies, API gateways, DNS, TLS, and HTTP protocol

Working knowledge of cloud and Kubernetes networking layer

Hands-on experience in developing tools/automation using go-lang, python or any other scripting language

Preferred Requirements

Experience in a distributed system or microservices architecture

Understanding of Service level agreements and objectives

Experience making technical decisions as a tech lead

Familiar with monitoring/observability technologies like Prometheus, Graphite, Grafana, Kibana, Elasticsearch

Open-source software development experience and or participation in open-source communities

Working knowledge of cloud security and application security

Experience in using any service meshes in production such as Istio or Linkerd

Experience in using network reliability practices such as circuit breaking, rate limiting

Experience in designing secure cloud-based network architectures

Experience in managing/operating CDN

Work Conditions

Employment workstyle

We believe in high performance and professionalism. We work from office for 3 days/week and work from home 2 days/week

To build a strong & highly-engaged organization in India, we highly encourage everyone to work from our Bangalore office, especially during the initial office setup phase

We will continue to review and update the policy to address future organizational needs

Work Hours

Full flextime (no core time)

• Flexible to choose working hours other than team common meetings

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