About Cybozu
Our purpose is to build a society brimming with teamwork. We offer the flexibility you need to work within a supportive, motivated, teamwork-driven environment.
We develop and deliver cloud-based collaboration services that enable diverse people to work together more easily and effectively. Today, we are one of Japan's most successful cloud-based companies, with four key products used every day by more than 170,000 businesses and nonprofit organizations worldwide.
Our Team
We have established a new and rapidly expanding team of around 35 people to build next-generation groupware and workspace solutions, including advanced identity and access management, communications, collaboration, and more.
The team comprises both exceptional existing professionals and newly-hired senior engineers. We aim to foster a team culture with the following qualities:
- Aligning actions with a compelling, shared vision
- Valuing individual differences and talents
- Fostering trust through open and transparent communication
- Empowering people to act independently while making progress together through discussion
Recruitment Pitch in New Business Division
Position Overview
We are seeking highly experienced backend engineers who are responsible for designing and developing backend systems for our new products. We use technologies such as OAuth2/OIDC, gRPC, Kubernetes, and distributed databases to build the backend.
As a senior backend software engineer, you will analyze the business and technical requirements, design software and systems, and implement them by collaborating with others. You will be responsible for the quality and maintainability of your code, so you must be a very good document writer and set up continuous integration systems with a good set of tests. In the early stage, you will also be responsible for running the services on Google Cloud and dealing with incidents.
Position Description
| Job Duties & Responsibilities |
- Analyze business and technical requirements to design our backend systems.
- Implement the designed system yourself with good documentation and tests.
- Review other backend engineers' design and code.
- Collaborate with frontend engineers, product designers, and architects.
- Build CI/CD pipelines.
- Run and operate the backend services on Google Cloud.
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| Expected Knowledge, Skills, and Abilities |
- 5+ years of experience working in development roles in B2B software engineering.
- Hands-on experience in writing software in Go.
- Experience with Kubernetes.
- Knowledge and experience with CI/CD.
- Professional English communication skills.
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| Additional Desirable Knowledge, Skills, and Abilities |
- Experience with Google Cloud, gRPC, or Istio/Envoy.
- Knowledge of OAuth2, OIDC, SCIM, and SAML.
- Experience in building AI features/functionalities
- Experience in building and managing production services
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| Location |
- Hybrid / In-Office (Tokyo)
- In general, you can work remotely from home.
- Working from the Tokyo office may be required, such as during the first three months for onboarding.
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| Work Hours |
- Flexible working hours
- Core collaboration time: Tue - Fri: 9am - midday (JST)
- Note: This is because some teammates are in the US, we often have morning meetings from 9am - midday
- Employees may determine their own start and end times, as well as break times, between 5:00 and 22:00.
- Adjustments should be made to align with the team’s working style.
- Example working hours: 9:00–18:00 (including a 60-minute break)
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| Salary Range |
- Salary Range（※1）: JPY 10,000,000 – JPY 12,000,000
- Estimated annual salary: Base Salary (12 months) + Bonus (Base salary x 1 month x twice a year = 2 months)
- Monthly salary system: Base salary is determined based on your skill set, experience, and abilities, etc.
- An allowance for additional overtime（※2）is included in the base salary. However, work exceeding additional overtime agreed to between the employer and employee will be compensated separately.
- Base monthly salary（※1）: JPY 710,000 – JPY 860,000
The base monthly salary breakdown as follows:
- Base salary: JPY 540,950 – JPY 655,200
- Allowance for additional overtime（※2）: JPY 169,050 to JPY 204,800
※Notes:
1. Depending on your skill set and experience, the amount set may be outside the above range.
2. Calculated based on 160 hours of scheduled working hours per month and 40 hours of additional overtime.
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| Benefits |
- Remote work allowance (5,000/month)
- Employee stock ownership plan (company matches purchase of up to 10% of paycheck)
- Skill development support/Language Learning Support (120,000 yen a year)
- New tech gear (PC)
- Commuter allowance
- Comprehensive health and social insurance
- Parental Leave
- Visa sponsorship and relocation support will be provided for those who do not reside in Japan
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| Vacations |
- 20 days of paid leave
- 5 days of Proactive Personal Leave
- 5 days of Family Care / Personal Sick Leave
- Two days off per week (Saturday and Sunday), Public holidays in Japan
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| Selection Process |
- Document screening
- Interviews (4 times, the 2nd interview is a technical interview)
- Background Check, Reference check
- Offer meeting
*We conduct a background check & reference check prior to the final interview.
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