4 months ago
Tokyo, JapanSenior
Responsibilities
- Improve and maintain issue-tracking tools, systems, and workflows based on end-user needs.
- Improve and evolve existing end-to-end release processes and workflows.
- Perform hands-on release-stage integration and regression QA.
- Define and uphold release quality gates with developers and QA.
- Improve release notes and release visibility to increase adoption and usage awareness.
- Create Python, Bash, and C++ tooling and automation to reduce manual release preparation.
- Drive practical AI usage in release workflows, including release-note drafting and change aggregation.
Requirements
- Practical experience designing and operating production release workflows.
- Strong understanding of system-level testing and release QA.
- Experience working cross-functionally and taking ownership of ambiguous initiatives.
- Experience with planning or tracking tools such as Jira or equivalents.
- Hands-on experience developing tools or automation using Python or C++.
- Ability to build scripts, tools, or systems that improve release workflows, QA processes, and automation.
- Preferred: 5+ years of hands-on experience in Release Engineering or similar roles such as Product Enablement, DevEx, or release-focused DevOps.
- Preferred: experience with AI tools in software delivery or documentation workflows.
- Preferred: background in environments with remote or limited deployment control.
Benefits
- Tokyo-based role at 8:45–17:45 with a 60-minute break.
- Weekends off, annual paid leave, maternity and childcare leave, flex holidays, and other company holidays.
- Salary revisions twice yearly and performance-based bonuses are available; compensation is based on experience and skills.
- Flexible dress code, commuting allowance, Japanese social security, monthly team dinner support, free buffet lunch, free vending machines, high-end coffee machine, and employee gym access.
- Japan relocation support, visa sponsorship, flight ticket support, shipping expense coverage up to a specified limit, and housing assistance.
