What You’ll Bring:

• Proven expertise in application development, platform engineering, and related practices, with a minimum of 10 years in relevant roles.

• Comprehensive understanding of DevOps, GitOps, cloud-native application platforms, and modern development frameworks.

• Strong ability to define complex domain architectures from logical, functional, and technical perspectives.

• Knowledge of reusable architecture patterns and a track record of implementing them in customer engagements.

• Fluency in Japanese and strong English communication skills, including experience delivering presentations to technical and business audiences.

• Experience in presenting at technical conferences, industry forums, or public events, showcasing thought leadership.

Top 3 requirements for Chief in Japan: 

1) Ability to bridge critical technical customer conversations with japanese customers with our engineering team, which also requires good working level english, 

2) Strong technical expertise on Platform Engineering / DevOps with actual delivery track record, ideally considered as an expert in this field by the industry locally (e.g. has spoken at key events), 

3) Existing contributors to relevant open source upstream communities (does not have to be code)