Senior Software Development Engineer (Backend), Advertisement Delivery Platform - Global Ad Technology Supervisory Department (GATD)
Rakuten7 days ago
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
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/.