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Mercari

Peer-to-peer mobile marketplace for secondhand goods

Software Engineer - Site Reliability Engineering

Site Reliability EngineeringConfirmed live in the last 24 hours
Full-timeMinato City, Tokyo, JapanNo salary listed

About the Job

Requirements

  • Production SRE experience with service ownership, availability targets, toil reduction, operational readiness, and using SLOs and SLIs to prioritize reliability work alongside development teams.
  • Experience operating production services at scale (>10K QPS, or ownership of multiple production microservices) under SLOs.
  • Production experience with Google Cloud (compute, networking, managed services) and Kubernetes-based workloads.
  • Infrastructure-as-Code experience (Terraform) and scripting in Go, Python, or shell.
  • Hands-on experience with monitoring and observability (Datadog or equivalent), including alert design and reducing alert fatigue.
  • Experience owning incident response, postmortems, and on-call or on-support rotations.
  • Ability to lead epics end-to-end without teammate support.
  • Willingness to learn and apply AI to operational workflows beyond core SRE expertise.

Responsibilities

  • Operate hundreds of production microservices on Google Cloud (Kubernetes, managed services) under SLO targets, including on-support rotation for urgent issues.
  • Lead end-to-end reliability epics independently, from design through rollout, monitoring, and post-launch iteration.
  • Define and operate SLOs and SLIs for critical user journeys, using error budgets to prioritize work with product teams.
  • Lead incident response, advance the team's postmortem culture, and drive follow-ups that prevent recurrence.
  • Build autonomous AI agents for detection, triage, and recovery (log analysis, alert summarization, root cause analysis, remediation) with clear safety.
  • Write Infrastructure as Code with Terraform and build automation to reduce toil and scale operations across a large microservices environment.
  • Build and maintain monitoring, alerting, and tracing on Datadog tied to user impact, with short detection-to-mitigation time.
  • Perform reliability and performance tuning on production workloads, including capacity planning, autoscaling, load shedding, and dependency hardening.
  • Partner with product and platform teams on production readiness reviews, capacity planning, and new infrastructure adoption.
  • Strengthen reliability governance through engineering, including risk assessment, audit response, and compliance-as-code.

Desired Qualifications

  • Experience designing or running platform-wide SLO programs across multiple services or business units.
  • Experience applying AI to operational workflows (log analysis, alert summarization, runbook assistance, root cause analysis, remediation) with evaluation of accuracy and safety.
  • Experience operating high-scale Kubernetes platforms, or distributed systems internals (scheduling, consistency, failure recovery).
  • Experience leading reliability or platform initiatives that span multiple teams.
  • Experience strengthening reliability governance through engineering (compliance-as-code, automated audit evidence, risk assessment).

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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