Manager, Software Engineering - Core Services

Applications: candidates must already be in Japan. Visa sponsorship: not available. Japanese: Business level. English: Business level. Japan Dev tags: Engineering, Manager.

Treasure Data:

At Treasure Data, we’re on a mission to radically simplify how companies use data and AI to create connected customer experiences. Our intelligent customer data platform (CDP) drives revenue growth and operational efficiency across the enterprise to deliver powerful business outcomes.

We are thrilled that Forrester has recognized Treasure Data as a Leader in The Forrester Wave™: Customer Data Platforms For B2C. It's an honor to be acknowledged for our efforts in advancing the CDP industry with cutting-edge AI and real-time capabilities.

Furthermore, Treasure Data employees are enthusiastic, data-driven, and customer-obsessed. We are a team of drivers—self-starters who take initiative, anticipate needs, and proactively jump in to solve problems. Our actions reflect our values of honesty, reliability, openness, and humility.

This is a high-impact leadership role leading one of our Core Services engineering teams, responsible for ensuring the reliability, scalability, and long-term evolution of services that underpin Treasure Data’s global platform.

This role is primarily focused on people leadership, team health, and execution excellence. While not expected to code daily, you are expected to bring strong technical judgment, architectural fluency, and delivery rigor to guide the team effectively.

The Opportunity:

• Lead and manage a team of 4-7 software engineers in Japan, focusing on foundational platform services that power Treasure Data’s core product capabilities.

• Develop team members' communication, collaboration, and self-management skills through setting clear expectations, offering constructive feedback, and effectively managing challenging situations.

• Establish engineering processes, planning discipline, and accountability within the team

• Own end-to-end delivery of roadmap commitments, ensuring predictable, high-quality execution while balancing technical debt, reliability, and velocity

• Contribute an experienced perspective to system design discussions, helping the team navigate tradeoffs and make sound technical decisions.

• Partner with senior leadership and cross-functional stakeholders to translate company strategy into impactful Core Services initiatives

• Join our on-call rotation as an escalation point

About You:

• Native / Upper Business level of Japanese and English

• 8+ years of experience in Software Engineering, with 3+ years in management

• Ability to review architecture critically and guide engineers through design tradeoffs

• Strong understanding of APIs, backend services, and reliability engineering principles

• Proven track record of coaching and developing high-performing engineers and enabling them to achieve impactful outcomes

• Experience managing distributed teams across multiple time zones in a global organization.

Physical Requirements:

3 days at Treasure Data Office

About Treasure Data:

Treasure Data is the Intelligent Customer Data Platform (CDP) built for enterprise scale and powered by AI. Recognized as a Leader by Forrester and IDC, Treasure Data empowers the world’s largest and most innovative companies to deliver hyper-personalized customer experiences at scale that increase revenue, reduce costs, and build trust.

Through unique capabilities such as the Diamond Record, AI Agent Foundry, and AI Decisioning with Real-Time Personalization, Treasure Data enables marketing and CX teams to personalize cross-channel engagement in real-time, optimize marketing spend while increasing ROI, and drive customer lifetime value through more intelligent retention and loyalty.

Our Dedication to You:

We value and promote diversity, equity, inclusion, and belonging in all aspects of our business and at all levels. Success comes from acknowledging, welcoming, and incorporating diverse perspectives.

Diverse representation alone is not the desired outcome. We also strive to create an inclusive culture that encourages growth, ownership of your role, and achieving innovation in new and unique ways. Your voice will be heard, and we will help amplify it.