Software Engineer, Microservices Platform (Internship) - Mercari
Mercari, inc., Japan

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We are currently taking application from those who graduate after March 2023.

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In the Mercari Group, we have several training and internship opportunities. Please pick ONE INTERNSHIP ROLE from our career site that you are most interested in. We don't encourage simultaneous applications to multiple jobs.

Mercari is a Japan-based company with the mission of create value in a global marketplace where anyone can buy amp; sell. Having continuously worked toward this goal since our founding in 2013, we are now transforming from a startup into a global player. While this transformation brings its own specific set of challenges, we believe that solving them one after another will allow us to fully achieve our mission. Are you interested in working together to take on these exciting challenges?

To achieve our mission at Mercari, our organization and each of our employees share the same values and perspectives. Our individual guidelines for action are defined by our three values: Go Bold, All for One, and Be a Pro. Our organization is also shaped by our four foundations: Sustainability, Diversity amp; Inclusion, Trust amp; Openness, and Well-being for Performance. Regardless of how big Mercari gets, the culture will remain essential to achieving our mission and something we want to preserve throughout our organization.

We invite you to read the Mercari Culture Doc, which summarizes the behaviors and mindset shared by Mercari and its employees. We continue to build an environment where all of our members of diverse backgrounds are accepted and recognized, and where they can thrive while holding dear Mercari’s culture.

• We have our internship opportunities for Mercari JP (Tokyo) in Japan as well as Mercari India (Bengaluru). Please choose which entity you are interested in in the application form.
  • About Mercari India
    • This year, Mercari, Inc. will be establishing a Center of Excellence in Bengaluru, Indiaour first development base outside Japan and the US. Since our founding, Mercari’s product development has been driven by the skills and talent of many Indian engineers. With the opening of this new Center of Excellence in Bengaluru, we are looking to further expand our team.Our team in India will leverage the vast technological capabilities and expertise that the country has to offer. Together, we aim to build high-quality products and services to strengthen Mercari’s leadership position in the global market and achieve our mission to create value in a global marketplace where anyone can buy amp; sell. More details can be found on Mercari India career site.

The Platform Group is responsible for helping engineers at Mercari and its subsidiaries to build and deliver better products to our customers. We provide infrastructure and DevOps toolchains to increase the reliability of the service and make the work of engineers easier.

Currently, the Platform Group consists of four teams:

• Platform DX: Working on improving the developers experience by providing better abstraction and automated workflows
• CI/CD: Providing testing infrastructure, toolings, and the delivery system to make service delivery faster and more reliable
• Network: Responsible for end-to-end network infrastructure from the edge (CDN) to the cloud amp; service mesh (Istio) and physical data centers
• Platform Infra: Working on the base infrastructure operations as the cloud (GCP amp; AWS) and Kubernetes admin, as well as building the observability platform

You can see more details about the team structure on our tech blog How we reorganize the platform team.

The following are some of the recent or in-progress projects which the Platform Group has been working on:

• Platform DX
  • Kubernetes Configuration Management with CUE
  • Shifting to Zero Touch Production
• CI/CD
  • Towards a more stable and secure CD system replacement
  • Defense Against Novel Threats: Redesigning CI at Mercari
• Network
  • How Istio solved our problems
  • Managing Network Policies for namespaces isolation on a multi-tenant Kubernetes cluster
  • Dynamic Service Routing using Istio
• Platform Infra
  • Securing Terraform monorepo CI
  • Observability-kit: Adventures of using CUE at scale

We are looking for a software engineer for one of the teams in the Platform Group who has a strong background (or interest) in platform or infrastructure system development. Someone who is passionate about increasing developer productivity and has a pragmatic ability to release and migrate features to large-sca

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