Engineering Manager - Infrastructure

About SmartNews 

SmartNews is a leading global information and news discovery company dedicated to delivering quality information to the people who need it. Thanks to our unique machine-learning technology and relationships with more than 3,000 global publisher partners, we provide news that matters to millions of users.

Founded in 2012 in Tokyo, SmartNews also has offices in Osaka (Kansai Office), Palo Alto, New York and Singapore.

If you share our vision and are passionate about our mission, we encourage you to apply!

Team and Role Mission

At Infrastructure Foundation, we build and scale the core compute and network backbone that powers SmartNews for millions of users. Our mission is to deliver high-performance, cost-effective, and resilient infrastructure that accelerates product innovation across the entire engineering organization.

By operating massive Kubernetes clusters across multiple regions, we solve complex distribution and reliability challenges at scale. Every optimization we make directly enhances system availability, reduces latency, and optimizes global efficiency for SmartNews’s most critical services.

We champion simplicity, stability, and speed. We empower developer teams by providing a seamless, rel