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Mercari

Peer-to-peer mobile marketplace for secondhand goods

Database Reliability Engineer - Database Reliability Engineering

Database AdministrationConfirmed live in the last 24 hours
Full-timeMinato City, Tokyo, JapanNo salary listed

About the Job

Requirements

  • Production DBA or Database Reliability Engineering experience with MySQL, TiDB, PostgreSQL, or an equivalent relational database management system, including understanding of replication, indexing, and query planning internals.
  • Experience operating databases at scale, above 10,000 queries per second or with datasets larger than 1 terabyte, under production service-level agreements.
  • Production experience with Google Cloud Platform or Amazon Web Services managed database services such as CloudSQL, AlloyDB, Relational Database Service, Aurora, or equivalent.
  • Infrastructure-as-Code experience with Terraform or Ansible, and scripting in Go, Python, or shell.
  • Hands-on experience with database monitoring and observability using Datadog, Grafana, or equivalent.
  • Experience owning incident response, performance tuning, and on-call or on-support rotations.
  • Ability to lead epics end-to-end without teammate support.
  • Willingness to learn database engines beyond core expertise, including AlloyDB, Spanner, or PostgreSQL.
  • Japanese proficiency at CEFR C2 level is required.

Responsibilities

  • Operate production databases including TiDB, MySQL, PostgreSQL, and managed cloud databases under a 99.99% availability service-level agreement, including participation in urgent-issue support rotations.
  • Lead end-to-end epics independently, from design through rollout, monitoring, and post-launch tuning.
  • Design and execute database migrations, including engine changes, version upgrades, and on-premises-to-cloud cutovers, with zero or minimal downtime.
  • Build and operate change data capture and streaming pipelines using Debezium, TiCDC, and Kafka to feed analytics and downstream services.
  • Write infrastructure as code using Terraform or Ansible and build automation in Go or Python to reduce toil and scale operations.
  • Build and maintain database monitoring, alerting, and service-level objective/service-level indicator dashboards using Datadog and Grafana.
  • Diagnose and resolve production incidents, lead post-mortems, and implement permanent fixes.
  • Tune performance on production workloads, including query plans, schemas, indexing, and replication topology.
  • Partner with product and platform teams on schema changes, capacity planning, and adoption of new databases.
  • Help expand multi-engine Database Reliability Engineering by learning and productionizing database engines including AlloyDB and Spanner.

Desired Qualifications

  • Experience with distributed database internals such as sharding, replication, and consensus, or production operations of TiDB, Spanner, Vitess, or CockroachDB.
  • Change data capture or streaming pipeline experience with Debezium, TiCDC, Kafka Connect, or similar tools.
  • Kubernetes operational experience.
  • Experience leading major database migrations involving an engine, version, or data center.
  • Experience driving cross-team coordination for schema changes, migrations, or platform adoption.
  • English proficiency at CEFR B2 level is preferred.

About the Company

Mercari

Peer-to-peer mobile marketplace for secondhand goods

Mercari operates a mobile peer-to-peer marketplace for buying and selling secondhand goods. Users list items by taking photos in the app, and buyers complete purchases there, with payments held in escrow until receipt is confirmed. Revenue comes from seller fees (10% in Japan; 10% plus 3.6% buyer protection in the US), plus Merpay payments and promoted listings, plus shipping partnerships for integrated delivery. The platform differentiates itself through a simple mobile experience, escrow and buyer protection, shipping integration, and a broader marketplace including Mercari Shops for sellers, with a goal of extending product life and supporting a circular economy.

Company size
1,001-5,000
Company stage
IPO
Headquarters
Tokyo, Japan
Founded
2013

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