Staff Software Engineer, Data Backend - Tokyo, Japan

Job Description

Appier is seeking a Staff Software Engineer to join their data engineering team in Tokyo. The ideal candidate will have extensive experience in large-scale data systems and will be responsible for owning, designing, developing, and setting the vision for offline and online computing.Appier is a software-as-a-service (SaaS) company that uses artificial intelligence (AI) to power business decision-making. Founded in 2012, Appier has 17 offices across APAC, Europe, and the U.S. and is listed on the Tokyo Stock Exchange.Responsibilities:

• Own, lead, and set the vision for one or more large-scale offline and online compute systems.
• Work with data engineers, data scientists, ML engineers, and software engineers from other organizations to understand their requirements, build solutions, and enforce best practices.
• Innovate how ETLs, online, and offline compute should work.
• Set high standards, mentor, and coach other engineers on the team.

Minimum Requirements:

• 7+ years of experience building and developing large-scale infrastructure, distributed systems, or networks.
• Have streaming compute experience (large-scale: Hundred to thousand of servers, QPS 10k to million, data volume or table size of TB (terabytes) to PB (petabytes)).

Preferred Experience:

• Working with open-source systems like Hive, Spark, Presto, Flink.