Rakuten

Senior Software Development Engineer (Backend), Advertisement Delivery Platform - Global Ad Technology Supervisory Department (GATD)

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7 days ago
Tokyo, JapanSenior
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Responsibilities

  • Develop and maintain the Rakuten Unified Advertisement platform backend, backend APIs, and data-processing systems.
  • Lead advertisement-platform feature development with team members and coordinate with internal and external stakeholders.
  • Define technical requirements and architecture while considering impacts on other features and appropriate response times.
  • Own features through delivery, including alerting, monitoring, service stability, and responding to questions from support teams and PDMs.
  • Investigate operational issues, identify root causes, implement solutions, and establish preventive measures.
  • Analyze cloud-environment logs and improve operational efficiency through software development and automation.
  • Explain technical specifications, issue root causes, and project progress clearly to technical and non-technical stakeholders.

Requirements

  • At least 5 years of system development experience, especially in advertisement systems.
  • Strong knowledge of Golang.
  • Experience developing and performance-tuning large-scale web applications.
  • Experience operating systems on public clouds including GCP, AWS, or Azure.
  • Strong knowledge of relational database management systems such as MySQL and PostgreSQL.
  • Business-level English proficiency.
  • Experience with BigQuery, Pub/Sub, Dataflow, GKE, and other practical GCP services is desired.
  • SSP or DSP development experience is desired.
  • Experience improving products based on user feedback, maintaining and refactoring long-running or legacy systems, and driving operational efficiency through automation is desired.
  • Ability to prioritize complex work, collaborate proactively, escalate uncertainties, and support team members is desired.

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About Rakuten

10,000+ employees

Rakuten Group, Inc. (TSE: 4755) is a global technology leader in services that empower individuals, communities, businesses and society. Founded in Tokyo in 1997 as an online marketplace, Rakuten has expanded to offer services in e-commerce, fintech, digital content and communications to 2 billion members around the world. The Rakuten Group has more than 30,000 employees, and operations in 30 countries and regions. For more information visit https://global.rakuten.com/corp/.

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