
About Organization
Rakuten Symphony's Cloud Business Unit provides a highly scalable Kubernetes based platform that provides secure distributed storage, networking and compute capabilities for next generation applications.
Our business is diverse and growing across Telecommunication, Enterprise, and Retail Customers in the Far East, EMEA, and Americas. Our engineering team is diverse spanningUS, Dubai, Singapore, Japan, and Korea. We are seeking to grow the team in Japan and are looking for systems engineers from within and outside Japan to take our platform to the next level.
To Develop world classes cloud native Storage
Why We Hire
Develop and support Cloud native storage for RMI
Job Duties
- Code in a variety of languages, primarily C/C++
- Design, implement, and maintain high-performance, scalable object storage systems.
- Work with senior storage engineers to help them design, improve, and deploy technical and application solutions to meet business requirements
- Be able to create documentation such as design documents, feature specification and bug updates.
- Being able to create a work plan with verifiable milestones and time estimates and deliver project within estimates.
- Constructively collaborate with the team during design/code reviews.
- Interfacing with QA to come up with effective feature test plans.
- Knowledge transfer to Support team on the new features developed.
- Ensure that root-cause analysis is identified and knowledge gained is applied for process improvement.
- Being able to benchmark performance and identify and troubleshoot bottlenecks.
Work Environment
15 Storage Personal team spread across USA, India and Japan
Team contains people from Veritas, Netapp, Violin memory, Nutanix, Microsoft and VMware
C/C++, Python and Git
Minimum Qualifications
・2+ years of system software development experience.
・Strong C/C++ programming skills
・Python, Shell scripting, Linux experience
・1+ years experience developing Enterprise quality Filesystem/Storage software
・Ability to program both in kernel and user space
・Good understanding of multithreading and race conditions in concurrent systems.
・Good understanding of on-disk and in-memory data structures and algorithms with emphasis on performance
・Ability to work successfully as part of a team
・Strong written and verbal communication skills
・BS/MS/PhD in Computer Science/Engineering or equivalent work experience
Preferred Qualifications
・Experience in design and development of hyperconverged/distributed storage systems for Enterprise and High-Performance Enterprise.
・Experience in debugging and fixing issues in a distributed software stack that scale outs across thousands of nodes.
・Experience in debugging and fixing data corruption issues
・Experience in implementing data protection using erasure coding and/or RAID.
・Experience in compute, storage and network virtualization techniques.
・Experience in developing fault tolerance for no service interruption.
・Experience in I/O path performance engineering.
・Basic understanding of HTTP and REST
・Basic understanding of distributed object storage like Amazon S3
・Basic understanding of widely used storage software’s like key/value stores, SQL.
Languages:
English (Overall - 4 - Fluent)

About Rakuten Asia Pte. Ltd.
Situated in the heart of Singapore's Central Business District, Rakuten Asia Pte. Ltd. is Rakuten's Asia Regional Headquarters. Established in August 2012 as part of Rakuten's global expansion strategy, Rakuten Asia comprises various businesses that provide essential value-added services to Rakuten's global ecosystem. Through advertisement product development, product strategy and data management, among others, Rakuten Asia is strengthening Rakuten Group's core competencies to take the lead in an increasingly digitalized world.
About Rakuten Group, Inc.
Rakuten Group, Inc. (TSE: 4755) is a global leader in internet 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 approximately 1.7 billion members around the world. The Rakuten Group has approximately 32,000 employees, and operations in 30 countries and regions. For more information visit https://global.rakuten.com/corp/.
For more information on Rakuten and its businesses, please visit http://global.rakuten.com/corp/ or email us at asia-careers@mail.rakuten.com