Data Scientist on SmartNews’s Ads Data Science team, leading product analytics, A/B testing, causal analysis, and analytical pipelines to guide ad-product decisions across JP and US markets.
About this role
This Engineering Manager leads the Infrastructure Foundation team, which builds and scales the compute and network backbone supporting the company’s core services. The team operates massive Kubernetes clusters across multiple regions and provides a reliable platform for engineering groups, with a focus on availability, performance, cost efficiency, and developer experience.
The role turns infrastructure strategy into an actionable roadmap, leads high-impact reliability initiatives, coaches and manages engineers, and improves team processes and delivery. It also partners with senior individual contributors and Product, Ads, Content, and ML teams to align platform capabilities with broader technical needs. The posting requires at least three years of hands-on individual-contributor experience in modern engineering or infrastructure work, at least two years leading or managing engineering teams, and strong organizational, communication, and people-leadership skills. Business-level Japanese and English are required for daily collaboration across global teams.
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