Intern - SRE

Job Description:

Rakuten International oversees 7 businesses with over 4,000 employees globally. The brand is recognized for its leadership and innovation in e-commerce, digital content, advertising, entertainment and communications, bringing the joy of discovery and access to more than 1 billion members across the world. Our teams deliver on the company’s mission to delight merchants and customers through innovation, optimism, and teamwork.

Rakuten Viki is a global entertainment streaming platform that specializes in Asian content. Our platform enables millions of viewers to discover and enjoy primetime shows and movies, subtitled in over 150 languages. Headquartered in San Mateo, California, we also have offices in Singapore, Seoul, and Shanghai, ensuring a strong global presence and a deep connection to the heart of Asian entertainment. Our platform is home to a large and loyal community of fans who share a passion for Asian culture and entertainment. Join us in our mission to bridge cultures and connect the world to Asian entertainment. At Rakuten Viki, we offer a chance to be part of a global community that celebrates culture, creativity, and connection.

Requirements:

• Undergraduates who are currently pursuing a Bachelor’s Degree in Computer Science, Computer Engineering or equivalent fields
• Any prior part-time, internship or personal project experience in software engineering will be a plus
• Passionate about learning new technologies and solving engineering problems
• Able to work for at least 12 weeks on a full-time basis, with immediate start

The SRE Team at Viki is responsible for building infrastructure for the large distributed components that run Viki. We develop and maintain services that power Viki's API and business intelligence, as well as make architecture changes to scale them. We handle everything from Performance engineering, Cost Optimization, Security, Reliability engineering to Configuration and deployment of pipelines. We run our systems on GCP with GKE and our media pipeline on AWS. We also use Spinnaker, Cloudbuild, Datadog, PostgreSQL, Redis to name a few tools.

Rakuten provides equal employment opportunities to all employees and applicants for employment and prohibits discrimination and harassment of any type. Rakuten considers applicants for employment without regard to race, color, religion, age, sex, national origin, disability status, genetic information, protected veteran status, sexual orientation, gender, gender identity or expression, or any other characteristic protected by federal, state, provincial or local laws.

Five Principles for Success

Our worldwide practices describe specific behaviors that make Rakuten unique and united across the world. We expect Rakuten employees to model these 5 Shugi Principles of Success.

1. Always improve, Always Advance - Only be satisfied with complete success - Kaizen
2. Passionately Professional - Take an uncompromising approach to your work and be determined to be the best
3. Hypothesize - Practice - Validate – Shikumika - Use the Rakuten Cycle to succeed in unknown territory
4. Maximize Customer Satisfaction - The greatest satisfaction for our teams is seeing their customers smile
5. Speed!! Speed!! Speed!! - Always be conscious of time - take charge, set clear goals, and engage your team

Rakuten Viki Company Profile

Rakuten Viki is an American video streaming service headquartered in San Mateo, California, with additional offices in Singapore, Tokyo, and Seoul. Founded in 2007, the company was acquired by the Japanese e-commerce company Rakuten in 2013 for $200 million.

The platform specializes in the distribution of Asian television shows, movies, and lifestyle programming. A key feature of Rakuten Viki is its community-driven subtitling model. Users collaborate to translate content into more than 200 languages, producing over one billion translated words to date.

For entry-level job seekers, Rakuten Viki offers a variety of career opportunities across several departments. Common areas for employment include:

• Software engineering and platform development
• Content licensing and media distribution
• Community management and localization
• Digital marketing and data analytics

The company operates on a freemium business model, generating revenue through advertising and premium subscription tiers. Rakuten Viki provides a global work environment and exposes employees to the rapidly growing international streaming industry.

Company Link: https://www.viki.com/