Listing Description

About PayPay Card

PayPay is a FinTech company that in the five years since its launch in 2018, has surpassed 65 million users (as of August 2024)  and is rapidly expanding its business scale as a payment platform used by approximately one in two smartphone users in Japan.

PayPay Card was established in 2021 to provide users with more accessible and convenient FinTech services that were previously not possible with credit cards and credit services by integrating with the PayPay payment platform. We are looking for professionals who are passionate about refining our products at an overwhelming speed that no other company can match, and promoting the spread of cashless payments in Japan and the financial life platform that uses them. We are looking for people who are passionate about this.

※ Please note that you cannot apply or be selected in parallel with PayPay Corporation, PayPay Card Corporation and PayPay Securities Corporation.

Job Description

PayPay Card Product Security team is looking for experienced infrastructure security engineers to lead improvements to our infrastructure and operational security, and introduce key security solutions.
The Product Security team is responsible for driving the application security and infrastructure security changes. Specifically, we are going through our architecture and strive to make things right, with a proper focus on the security aspect. A strong candidate for the infrastructure security engineer position will be knowledgeable about modern infrastructure solutions (such as Kubernetes, various public clouds and their services, SQL and no-SQL databases, ElasticSearch, message brokers and so on), security challenges and threats relevant to them.

Team Mission

• Empower product teams by building frictionless security guardrails and support systems into their tasks


• Lead initiatives to improve security in Technology Divisions


• Provide security education opportunities in Technology Division

Responsibilities

Primary Responsibilities

• Analyzing security risks relevant to the production infrastructure


• Designing, implementing and running security measures for the product infrastructure environment in various security domains, such as access control, CI/CD, cloud security, container security, DDOS protection, K8S, network security, PKI, policy as code, secret management.


• Improving observability and monitoring for security information and events, and security incident handling


• Assisting infrastructure teams in prioritizing security goals

Supporting Responsibilities

• Assisting infrastructure teams in implementing and running secure solutions


• Participating in major infrastructure projects as a security expert

Tech Stack

• Infrastructure runs on AWS and managed by Terraform


• Code is managed on GitHub


• New Backend services are using Kotlin + Spring Boot and existing services are a mix of Java+Spring Boot and Java EE

Required Qualifications

• 3+ years of infrastructure security or relevant experience


• Experience working with cloud- and microservice-based systems, preferably AWS


• Experience working with CI / CD pipelines


• Experience leading projects related to security solutions, such as: CNAPP, IDS/IPS, SIEM, SOAR, PAM, WAF, NGFW


• Solid knowledge of IT infrastructure (e.g. networks, servers, directory services, proxies, endpoint devices)


• Strong teamwork skills and the ability to collaborate with others in a diverse environment

Preferred Qualifications

• Solid programming skills in one or more programming languages, such as Python, Golang, Terraform


• Solid understanding of Linux


• Experience working in DevOps, DevSecOps, SRE, cloud or relevant areas


• Experience working in a security position within the credit card industry


• Experience working in PCI-DSS compliant environments


• Japanese conversational skills

Working Conditions

Employment Status

• Full Time

Office Location

• Tokyo Office


• You can live anywhere in Japan 

Work Hours

• Full Flex Time (No Core Time)


• In principle, 9:00am ~ 5:45pm (actual working hours: 7h45m + 1h break)

Holidays

• Every Sat/Sun/National holidays (In Japan)/New Year's break/Company-designated Special days
  
  

Paid leave

• Annual leave (up to 16 days in the first year, granted proportionally according to the month of employment. Can be used from the date of hire)

Salary

• Annual salary paid in 12 installments (monthly)


• Reviewed once a year


• Special Incentive once a year *Based on company performance and individual contribution and evaluation


• Overtime allowance, Late overtime allowance, Commuting and transportation expenses, Work style support allowance

Benefits

• Social Insurance (health insurance, employee pension, employment insurance and compensation insurance)


• 401K