Infrastructure engineer

Overview

We are Rakuten Luxembourg – part of the international Rakuten Group. You probably know Rakuten as Japan’s biggest e-Commerce company or creator and operator of the first OpenRAN mobile network. Rakuten Luxembourg is a young technology company with a focus on financial services and card payments. Our technology office is located in Munich. We are building core platforms for financial applications and operate the main banking-as-a-service platform for Rakuten Europe Bank, a licensed bank in Luxembourg and Rakuten’s central financial hub in Europe.

Our platform handles real-time financial transactions; security and reliability are essential. We use Rust for core components, Postgres for data management, and AWS for hosting infrastructure. All infrastructure runs on Linux and local machines on MacOS.

Role

We are looking for highly motivated Infrastructure engineers to join the Munich team. The role requires experience with and enthusiasm for Terraform and AWS, strong command-line skills, and a commitment to clean, well-documented code. You should be a great team player who works to improve the team as a whole. You must continually improve security and reliability, enjoy proactive communication (even when not in the office), and maintain a healthy error culture.

Qualifications

• A bachelor’s degree or diploma in computer science or equivalent experience.
• Proficient with Terraform and basic AWS services.
• Experience deploying containers on Kubernetes.
• Linux proficiency beyond basic usage.
• Experience with 24/7 services and zero-downtime deployments.
• Strong focus on reliability and security in previous projects.
• Beneficial: experience in a regulated environment.
• Beneficial: experience in the financial industry.
• Beneficial: experience in card issuing.
• Team-oriented with good communication in a diverse environment.
• Good English is mandatory; German is highly appreciated.

Languages

• English
• German

Seniority level

• Entry level

Employment type

• Full-time

Job function

• Information Technology

Industries

• Software Development

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