Solutions Engineer

Permanent employee, Full-time · Tokyo

Your mission
 Midokura was born in January 2010 as a true global tech start-up together with the developers of the high-speed distributed DB Dynamo and genius engineers who were architects in the early days of Amazon, has been a member of the Sony Group since June 2019, aiming to integrate Midokura's distributed computing technology/ Midokura is taking on the challenge of building a next-generation Edge AI Platform to compete with GAFA, aiming to integrate Midokura's distributed computing/virtualisation technology and Sony's advanced sensor technology.
 
With R&D sites in Tokyo, Barcelona and Lausanne, we are a truly global company with engineers from all over the world (more than 10 nationalities), including former Amazon, Google and Microsoft employees, who work together with the world's most advanced technology companies and collaborate with research institutions such as Lausanne University of Technology. We are a truly global company that strives to achieve our vision every day.
Responsibilities
  • Smart Camera Service requirements analysis and architecture study
  • Leading the development team for the commercialisation of the Smart Camera Service
  • Checking the operation of development deliverables and source code review
Solution Architect/SRE Activity
  • Participate in SSS requirements analysis with product managers, enriching discussions to gain a deeper understanding of customer expectations and, where necessary, formulating appropriate technical requirements and recommendations to facilitate function definition and implementation.
  • Liaise with multiple points of contact to ensure smooth communication between the different stakeholders of SSS and Midokura during the process of defining functions
  • Provide proof of concept, training and post-release support to meet expectations from the SSS.
  • Provide feedback to relevant stakeholders (Product Manager and technical writers) and contribute to the improvement of product documentation.
 DevOps Activities
  • Maintaining a continuous integration and delivery platform
  • Containerised platform operations.


Your profile
  • Experience and leadership in positions such as pre-sales engineer, solutions engineer, application development engineer, IT architect, SRE, DevOps engineer
  • Knowledge and experience with large-scale infrastructure over 100nodes, virtualisation, containers, middleware, Kubernetes and etc.
  • Experience in Python and Java development.
  • Experience of developing in multiple cloud environments (e.g. Azure, AWS, GCP) is desirable.
  • Experience in R&D development using open source is desirable.
  • It is desirable to have developed systems that utilise IoT platforms.
  • Experience of development using CI/CD is desirable.
  • Experience in operating cloud services is desirable.
  • Ability to understand English literature and communicate in English on an email basis.
  • Technical communicative English conversation skills are a plus.
  • Resident in Japan and able to converse in Japanese for business purposes.
About us

MIDOKURA is a Sony Group company that delivers innovative solutions to power the Edge AI revolution in IoT.

Find more about us here.


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