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Astroscale

On-orbit satellite servicing and debris removal

IT Platform Engineer

Platform EngineeringConfirmed live in the last 24 hours
Full-timeTokyo, JapanNo salary listedHybrid

About the Job

Requirements

  • A bachelor's degree or above in IT Engineering, Computer Science, or a related subject is required.
  • At least 3 years of experience in DevOps, Platform Engineering, Site Reliability Engineering, or Engineering Automation roles is required.
  • Professional proficiency in Japanese is required.
  • Strong Linux administration experience, particularly with Ubuntu, is required.
  • Extensive CI/CD experience is required; GitLab experience is preferred.
  • Strong knowledge of Git and GitOps is required.
  • Experience designing reusable automation workflows is required.
  • Strong documentation and communication skills and the ability to collaborate effectively with software and non-software engineering teams are required.

Responsibilities

  • Design and build reusable AWS and on-premise platform capabilities that support development, testing, deployment, and application operations.
  • Continuously improve platform documentation, onboarding experiences, training materials, and developer experience.
  • Own the GitLab platform, including optimizing CI/CD pipelines, managing runners, platform integrations, repository templates, standardized engineering workflows, and reusable automation components.
  • Create templates, golden paths, and self-service provisioning workflows that enable engineering teams to deploy consistent environments without manual intervention.
  • Help engineering teams improve ownership of software assets by establishing maintainable repositories, documentation, release processes, automated testing, and development workflows.
  • Partner with Software QA and engineering teams to improve governance of vendor-delivered software assets, including software inventories, repository ownership, source-code control policies, acceptance criteria, build and release processes, traceability, and documentation practices.
  • Develop and maintain standard repository templates and CI/CD frameworks for internal and vendor-contributed projects, including automated testing, documentation generation, and release automation.
  • Help teams adopt sustainable practices that reduce long-term dependency on external suppliers.
  • Work with software, mission, operations, GNC, mechanical, AIV, and other engineering teams to identify opportunities for automation.
  • Develop solutions for data processing, simulation workflows, test automation, data transformation pipelines, documentation automation, and reporting.
  • Establish monitoring, logging, and alerting using Prometheus and Grafana.
  • Coordinate incident response and root-cause analysis.
  • Implement automated patching, configuration control, recovery validation, and security best practices.
  • Mentor engineers on CI/CD, Git workflows, Infrastructure as Code, and platform usage.

Desired Qualifications

  • Experience with Site Reliability Engineering practices, including service-level indicators, service-level objectives, and error budgets.
  • Experience supporting engineering organizations beyond software development teams.
  • Experience with engineering process automation.
  • Experience in software governance, software quality, configuration management, or compliance.
  • Experience managing vendor-developed software assets.
  • Experience with AI- or large language model-assisted software development workflows.
  • AWS certifications or previous technical leadership or mentoring experience.
  • Professional bilingual proficiency in English and Japanese.

About the Company

Astroscale

On-orbit satellite servicing and debris removal

Astroscale provides on-orbit satellite servicing to extend mission lifetimes and reduce space debris. Its offerings include End-of-Life services (ELSA-d and ELSA-M) to capture and de-orbit defunct satellites, Active Debris Removal (ADRAS-J) to approach and inspect debris, Life Extension (LEXI) for in-orbit refueling planned for 2026, and in-situ space situational awareness (ISSA) to monitor the space environment. It enables docking plates attached pre-launch to allow future servicing or removal, serving governments (JAXA, UK Space Agency, ESA) and commercial operators (Eutelsat, OneWeb). Its goal is to create a sustainable space environment by enabling safe rendezvous, servicing, and debris removal in low Earth orbit and geostationary orbit and by shaping regulations for responsible space activity.

Company size
201-500
Company stage
IPO
Headquarters
Tokyo, Japan
Founded
2013

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