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About the role
- Engineering Manager leading the Database Reliability Engineering team at Mercari for reliable database infrastructure. Overseeing technical strategy and team mentoring in a hybrid work environment.
Responsibilities
- Manage, mentor, and hire a diverse team of Database Reliability Engineers; foster a culture of psychological safety, continuous learning, and operational excellence.
- Define and drive the technical vision for Mercari’s database infrastructure.
- Oversee the stability of mission-critical database systems; lead incident response for high-severity database issues and drive post-incident reviews to prevent recurrence.
- Partner with FinOps to drive continuous cost optimization initiatives, such as shard consolidation and resource right-sizing, balancing performance with efficiency.
- Collaborate closely with Platform Infrastructure, SRE, Observability, and Product teams to align database capabilities with business requirements and critical user journeys.
Requirements
- Individuals who can resonate with the mission and values of the Mercari Group and each company
- Experience managing or leading an engineering team (SRE, DBRE, or Infrastructure focus preferred), including hiring, performance management, and career development.
- Strong technical background in database technologies (e.g., MySQL, TiDB, PostgreSQL) and understanding of database internal architecture, performance tuning, and high availability designs.
- Experience with cloud platforms (GCP, AWS) and infrastructure-as-code practices (Terraform, Ansible).
- Proven track record of managing incidents and driving post-mortem/root cause analysis processes.
- Excellent communication skills to effectively collaborate with stakeholders and explain complex technical risks to non-technical leadership.
- Preferred Experience/Skills
- Experience operating large-scale distributed databases (e.g., TiDB, Spanner, Vitess) in production.
- Experience with FinOps or cloud cost management strategies.
- Background in software development (Go, Python, etc.) to understand the developer experience and tooling needs.
- Experience leading major infrastructure migrations (e.g., on-prem to cloud, database engine changes).
- Knowledge of modern SRE practices, including SLO/SLI definition and error budget management.
- Japanese: Independent (CEFR - B2)
- English: Independent (CEFR - B2) Preferred
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