Senior Infrastructure Engineer, Digital Twin Platform

Team: Social Infrastructures & Platforms

Location: Tokyo

Commitment: Employee

Workplace Type: hybrid

TEAM

Toyota is redefining what it means to move. We're challenging the current state of mobility by enhancing the movement of people, goods, information and energy. Centered around three core concepts - A Living Laboratory™, Human-Centered, and Ever Evolving City™ - Woven City serves as a test course for mobility to fulfill our purpose of well-being for all.

We do this by bringing together a diverse community of people with a shared passion for the future of mobility to co-create, develop and refine innovative products and services. This cross-section of social infrastructure, mobility, and people provides a unique opportunity for inventors, residents and visitors to interact seamlessly with new technologies throughout daily life in an environment that emulates a real city.

Our team, Digital Twin Platform, as one of the core Inventor Garage Solutions teams under the Woven City umbrella, is responsible for the realization of Woven City's vision: "Expand mobility. Enhance humanity. Engage society" by developing a robust software platform, on one hand to enable inventors and business owners to “test” their products in a virtual environment before deploying to the physical Woven City; on the other hand, to create analytics to assist in decision making based on both simulated results and more importantly operational data collected from the physical city, such as residents daily life, traffic dynamics, energy consumption, etc.

As the Digital Twin Platform is still in its early growth phase, you'll have the rare chance to influence not just what we build but how we bring it to market and experiment with different business models as the platform and its commercial strategy mature together.

For more information about Woven City, please visit: https://www.woven-city.global/ 

WHO ARE WE LOOKING FOR?

We are seeking a Senior Infrastructure Engineer to join our team focused on advancing the Digital Twin Platform core - our shared SaaS platform powering a wide array of product solutions ranging from live visualization to predictive simulation workloads. The platform core provides the common infrastructure foundation (compute, storage, networking, observability, and deployment) that other teams rely on to build and run their services.

As a senior engineer you will own the design and implementation of robust, scalable cloud infrastructure. You have deep, hands-on experience building and operating cloud-native platforms at scale (for example, Kubernetes-based or multi-tenant SaaS environments), strong software engineering skills, and a proven track record of delivering and running high-availability, production-grade systems using Infrastructure as Code.

You will work closely with multiple product, simulation, and platform teams to drive cross-team initiatives, improve developer experience, and enable new capabilities on top of the Digital Twin Platform. This is a high-impact role with significant technical ownership: you will help define platform architecture and standards, influence how teams build and operate their services, and raise the overall bar for reliability and operability across the organization.

You will be reporting to the Digital Twin Infrastructure and SRE sub-function manager, and this is a hybrid work style role.

RESPONSIBILITIES

• Own the end-to-end design, deployment, and operation of scalable infrastructure that underpins critical Digital Twin Platform services
• Drive cross-team alignment with internal stakeholders and lead initiatives that enable streamlined onboarding and platform adoption through standardized deployment templates, Infrastructure As Code configurations and automation
• Proactively surface and resolve infrastructure bottlenecks, leading efforts to troubleshoot complex issues and continuously improve performance, reliability, and cost efficiency
• Shape the platform’s technical direction as we scale the Digital Twin Platform into a multi-tenant, SaaS-ready architecture by assessing new requirements, proposing architectural enhancements, and evangelizing platform knowledge to establish best practices for SaaS infrastructure and developer experience
• Mentor and coach engineers through design reviews, knowledge sharing, and operational best practices, raising the overall bar for infrastructure quality and engineering excellence

MINIMUM QUALIFICATIONS

• B.S. or M.S. in Computer Science or a related technical discipline
• 7+ years of hands-on experience in Infra/DevOps/System Reliability Engineering, with at least 2 years in a technical lead role
• Hands-on expertise with Infrastructure-as-code for cloud infrastructure provisioning and application packaging (E.g. Kubernetes,Terraform, Helm, etc.)
• Proven experience deploying, managing and scaling platform services
• Track record building or operating cloud platforms or SaaS infrastructure (AWS)
• Business level proficiency in English and the ability to effectively manage various stakeholders

NICE TO HAVES

• Knowledge of multi-tenancy models and tenant lifecycle management
• Background implementing or integrating continuous deployment practices and policy, including tooling support
• Experience with authentication and authorization at scale (E.g. configuring, operating, integrating)
• Familiarity with modern observability stacks, especially the integration and management of systems in production SaaS platforms
• Experience working in medium to large size (30+) engineering organizations
• Experience in supporting developers and collaborating across multi-disciplinary teams
• Conversation Level proficiency in Japanese