CrowdStrike is a global cybersecurity leader specializing in cloud-delivered endpoint protection, threat intelligence, and cyberattack response services. Headquartered in Austin, Texas, and publicly traded on the Nasdaq (CRWD), the company provides real-time security solutions to enterprises worldwide.
HQ: Austin, United States • Cybersecurity AI • LLM & Generative AI • Artificial Intelligence • Professional Services • Application Security • Threat Intelligence • Endpoint Security • Cybersecurity • 5000+ employees
≈ $44k – $99k per year (Estimated) • Equity • Senior • Tokyo • Nagoya • Osaka • Remote (Japan) • Full-Time • Senior • Japanese: C2 • English
Bash
Perl
PowerShell
Python
DevOps
Splunk
Cybersecurity
Crowdstrike
GENIEE is a Tokyo advertising technology company founded in 2010 that builds supply side and demand side advertising platforms. Its systems help publishers in Japan and Southeast Asia maximise revenue from programmatic advertising, and it has acquired sales and marketing software businesses. The company operates across several Asian markets from its Tokyo base.
HQ: Tokyo, Japan • Semiconductors • Document Management • Embedded Systems • Est. 2010
In office (Tokyo, Japan) • Full-Time
PHP
AI/ML
Claude
Cursor
DevOps
Ansible
Argo Workflows
ArgoCD
AWS
Azure
CI/CD
GCP
Grafana
Kubernetes
Prometheus
Terraform
≈ $45k – $95k per year (Estimated) • Equity • Senior • 5+ years exp • Remote/Hybrid (Tokyo, Japan) • Bachelor's Degree • Full-Time • Senior • Japanese: C1
Go
Python
JavaScript
TypeScript
Databases
Apache Kafka
RabbitMQ
AI/ML
AI Agents
AutoGen
ChatGPT
Claude
Cursor
LangChain
LangGraph
LLM
RAG
Edge AI
Google AI Studio
LLM Guardrails
OpenAI Agents SDK
Claude Code
Devin
Frontend
Next.js
React.js
DevOps
AWS
Azure
GCP
gRPC
Kubernetes
Vector
Docker
Grafana
OpenTelemetry
Prometheus
Terraform
GitHub
Management
Confluence
Google Workspace
Linear
Notion
Slack
≈ $44k – $129k per year (Estimated) • In office (Tokyo, Japan) • Full-Time • Japanese: C1
Go
Python
TypeScript
JavaScript
Databases
Apache Kafka
RabbitMQ
AI/ML
AutoGen
ChatGPT
Claude
Claude Code
Cursor
LangChain
LangGraph
LLM
RAG
Anthropic
Devin
Google AI Studio
OpenAI
OpenAI Agents SDK
AI Agents
Frontend
Next.js
React.js
DevOps
AWS
Azure
Docker
GCP
Grafana
gRPC
Kubernetes
OpenTelemetry
Prometheus
Terraform
GitHub
Management
Confluence
Google Workspace
Slack
Build is a cloud infrastructure and platform-as-a-service provider headquartered in London, United Kingdom, and founded in 2023. The company provides a full-stack platform for product teams to deploy and run production applications on its own bare-metal hardware rather than relying on rented hyperscaler capacity. It integrates AI-powered workflows for automated code deployment and infrastructure management, serving a global client base through data centers in the United States, Europe, and Japan.
HQ: London, United Kingdom • Web Development • Software • Data Centers • AI Agents • Artificial Intelligence • DevOps • Information Technology • Cloud Computing • Est. 2023
≈ $61k – $133k per year (Estimated) • Staff+ • Remote/Hybrid (Yokohama, Japan) • Full-Time • Staff
Python
AI/ML
InfiniBand
DevOps
CI/CD
GitOps
Kubernetes
Prometheus
Terraform
Ispace (TYO: 9348) is a global commercial lunar exploration and space infrastructure enterprise headquartered in Tokyo, Japan, with regional subsidiaries operating in Luxembourg and the United States (Denver, Colorado). Founded in 2010 by CEO Takeshi Hakamada, the publicly traded company has raised over $200 million in private equity and government grants from investors including Innovation Network Corporation of Japan (INCJ), Development Bank of Japan (DBJ), Suzuki Motor, and Japan's Space Strategy Fund.
HQ: Tokyo, Japan • Satellite Manufacturing • Space Services • Space & Aerospace
Remote/Hybrid (Tokyo, Japan) • Full-Time • Japanese
AWS
Azure
SLI/SLO/SLA
Analytics
ETL/ELT
Design
SolidWorks
Management
Confluence
Jira
≈ $24k – $71k per year (Estimated) • Middle • 3+ years exp • In office (Tokyo, Japan) • Full-Time • Middle • Japanese
Bash
Python
SQL
DevOps
Ansible
CI/CD
GitLab
AWS
Docker
Grafana
Kubernetes
SpaceTech
Yamcs
≈ $30k – $75k per year (Estimated) • Senior • 5+ years exp • Remote/Hybrid (Tokyo, Japan) • Full-Time • Senior
Python
DevOps
Git
Grafana
GitLab
SpaceTech
Yamcs
Computacenter is a major British multinational IT infrastructure services provider and technology solutions company headquartered in Hatfield, Hertfordshire, United Kingdom. Founded in 1981 by Philip Hulme and Peter Ogden, the FTSE 100 constituent operates on a hybrid B2B/B2G technology reseller, systems integration, professional advisory, and managed IT services commercial model, generating multi-billion pound revenues across Europe and North America.
Chiba • Minato • Osaka • Managed IT Services • IT Infrastructure • Information Technology • Est. 1981
≈ $24k – $53k per year (Estimated) • Middle • 3+ years exp • In office (Osaka, Japan) • Bachelor's Degree • Internship • Middle • Japanese: C1
SLI/SLO/SLA
AWS
Management
Jira
ServiceNow
Jamf is a leading provider of Apple device management solutions. The company's platform helps businesses manage and secure their Apple devices, including iPhones, iPads, and Macs. Jamf's platform offers a range of features, including: Device enrollment App management Security and compliance Data management Support and troubleshooting Jamf's platform is designed to be user-friendly and scalable, with a focus on providing businesses with the tools they need to manage their Apple devices effectively.
London • Minneapolis • Amsterdam • Katowice • Brno • Data Quality • Data Management • Smartphones • Est. 2002
≈ $48k – $144k per year (Estimated) • Middle • 4+ years exp • Australia • Remote (China, India, Japan, Australia, Indonesia) • Full-Time • Middle
Java
Python
Databases
Amazon Aurora
AI/ML
AI Agents
Claude
Claude Code
Copilot
Cursor
LLM Guardrails
Model Context Protocol
DevOps
Amazon EC2
Amazon EKS
AWS
CI/CD
GitHub Actions
Grafana
Jenkins
Prometheus
Terraform
Kubernetes
Amazon S3
GitHub
Supabase is an open-source backend-as-a-service company headquartered in San Francisco, California, and founded in 2020. The company provides a suite of development tools built on top of PostgreSQL, including database management, user authentication, edge functions, real-time data synchronization, and vector storage for machine learning applications. Operating as a remote-first organization, it serves a global community of developers and enterprises by offering a scalable alternative to proprietary cloud platforms through its integrated suite of open-source technologies.
HQ: San Francisco, United States • Machine Learning • Artificial Intelligence • Cloud Computing • Mobile App Development • Software • Web Development • Information Technology • Database Management • 201-500 employees • Est. 2020
≈ $149k – $249k per year (Estimated) • Equity • Lead • Remote • Full-Time • Staff
PostgreSQL
Supabase
DevOps
Grafana
SLI/SLO/SLA
Vector
Management
Notion
Marketing
HubSpot
≈ $91k – $208k per year (Estimated) • Equity • Senior • 5+ years exp • Remote • Full-Time • Senior
JavaScript
Rust
TypeScript
Databases
PostgreSQL
Redis
Supabase
AI/ML
Model Context Protocol
Frontend
WebAssembly
DevOps
AWS
Cloudflare
Kubernetes
OpenTelemetry
WebSockets
Management
Slack
≈ $69k – $194k per year (Estimated) • Equity • Middle • 4+ years exp • Remote • Full-Time • Middle
Go
TypeScript
Python
PHP
JavaScript
Ruby
Ruby
Ruby on Rails
Python
Django
PHP
Laravel
Databases
MySQL
PostgreSQL
Supabase
Frontend
Next.js
React.js
DevOps
Vector
GitHub
AWS
Grafana
Kubernetes
OpenTelemetry
Prometheus
SportyBet is an international sports betting, gaming, and digital entertainment platform owned by Sporty Group. Founded by Sudeep Ramnani in 2013, the platform is a market-leading sports betting operator in Africa - with operations across Nigeria, Ghana, Kenya, Zambia, Tanzania, and Uganda - and has expanded internationally into markets like Brazil.
HQ: London, United Kingdom • Gaming • Sports • iGaming & Gambling • Sports Betting • Est. 2013
≈ $90k – $219k per year (Estimated) • Senior • 6+ years exp • Remote • Senior
Java
Java
Spring Boot
Spring Cloud
Apache Tomcat
Netty
Databases
MySQL
Redis
ElasticSearch
RabbitMQ
DevOps
AWS
Docker
Kubernetes
Amazon CloudWatch
Grafana
Loki
Prometheus
Rest API
≈ $62k – $163k per year (Estimated) • Middle • 3+ years exp • Remote (Europe, Asia) • Middle
Java
Bash
Go
Python
Rust
JavaScript
Node JS
Java
Spring Boot
Databases
Memcached
MySQL
Redis
Amazon Aurora
Apache Kafka
PostgreSQL
DevOps
AWS
Grafana
Kubernetes
Amazon EKS
ArgoCD
GitOps
Helm
Platform Engineering
Terraform
Amazon EC2
AWS Lambda
CI/CD
Cloudflare
Docker
Jenkins
Nginx
Prometheus
Service Mesh
Alertmanager
Cilium
eBPF
GitHub Actions
Kong
Loki
Mimir
OpenTelemetry
Pyroscope
Vector
Amazon CloudWatch
Amazon S3
GitHub
≈ $68k – $193k per year (Estimated) • Middle • 3+ years exp • Remote • Middle
Java
SQL
Java
Spring Boot
Spring Cloud
Databases
ElasticSearch
MySQL
Redis
DevOps
AWS
Docker
Kubernetes
Platform Engineering
Amazon CloudWatch
Grafana
Loki
Prometheus
Rest API
UP Education is a major private dual-sector tertiary education provider operating across New Zealand and Australia. Headquartered in Auckland, the group delivers higher education degrees, vocational education and training (VET), and university preparation pathway programs across a regional network of over 60 campuses alongside online platforms.
HQ: Auckland, New Zealand • Education
New Zealand • Remote • Full-Time • Junior • English
AWS
Kali Linux
Splunk
Cybersecurity
Burp Suite
Microsoft Sentinel
Nmap
Wireshark
NCC Group (LSE: NCC) is a global cyber security, risk mitigation, and technical assurance enterprise headquartered in Manchester, United Kingdom. Founded in 1999, the publicly traded company employs over 2,000 security experts across the UK, Europe, North America, and Asia-Pacific.
HQ: Manchester, United States • Transportation & Logistics • Ride Hailing • Cybersecurity • 51-200 employees • Est. 1999
≈ $102k – $226k per year (Estimated) • Manchester • Remote • Full-Time
Nasdaq, Inc. is a global financial technology and exchange company headquartered in New York City, United States, founded in 1971. The company operates the Nasdaq Stock Market and provides a wide range of services including capital market platforms, financial data analytics, and regulatory technology solutions such as anti-money laundering and fraud detection software. It serves institutional investors, corporations, and market operators across North America and Europe, managing multiple exchanges and providing mission-critical infrastructure for the global financial system.
HQ: New York, United States • Risk Management • Fraud Detection • Cybersecurity • Analytics Platforms • Data & Analytics • FinTech • Financial Services • Capital Markets • 5000+ employees • Est. 1971
≈ $25k – $54k per year (Estimated) • Middle • 4+ years exp • Remote/Hybrid (Tokyo, Japan) • Full-Time • Middle
SQL
Databases
MS SQL
PostgreSQL
DevOps
Incident Management
Anthropic is an American artificial intelligence safety and research company founded in 2021 by former OpenAI researchers, among them the siblings Dario and Daniela Amodei. It develops the Claude family of large language models and ships them through a consumer assistant, an enterprise developer platform and the Claude Code agentic coding tool, alongside open standards such as the Model Context Protocol. Incorporated as a public benefit corporation and headquartered in San Francisco, the company concentrates on interpretability, alignment and reliability research and counts Google and Amazon among its largest investors.
HQ: San Francisco, United States • Code Intelligence • AI Agents • Machine Learning • LLM & Generative AI • Artificial Intelligence • 1001-5000 employees • Est. 2021
In office (Tokyo, Japan) • Visa sponsorship • Bachelor's Degree • Japanese
Multimodal AI
Anthropic
DevOps
PagerDuty
SLI/SLO/SLA
Mirantis is a B2B open-source cloud computing, container management, and AI infrastructure company headquartered in Campbell, California. Originally known as a core contributor to OpenStack, Mirantis now provides open-cloud software and managed services centered on Kubernetes, multi-cloud platforms, and enterprise AI workloads.
Calgary • Warsaw • Brussels • Prague • Poznań • DevOps • Information Technology • Cloud Computing • 1001-5000 employees
≈ $39k – $94k per year (Estimated) • Remote/Hybrid (Tokyo, Japan) • Full-Time • Senior
Go
Python
DevOps
Ansible
Grafana
Kubernetes
Platform Engineering
Prometheus
Terraform
AWS
HPC
Wiz develops a cloud security platform that helps organizations identify and manage risks across cloud infrastructure and applications. Its software analyzes configurations, identities, vulnerabilities, data exposure, and workloads to prioritize security issues and support remediation.
HQ: New York, United States • HQ: Tel Aviv, Israel • Information Technology • Cybersecurity • Cloud Computing • Cloud Security • 1001-5000 employees
≈ $29k – $69k per year (Estimated) • Senior • 5+ years exp • Remote (Japan) • Senior • Japanese: C1
JavaScript
Python
Frontend
GraphQL
DevOps
AWS
Azure
GCP
Kubernetes
Incident Management
Rest API
Cybersecurity
Wiz
Bitdefender is a global cybersecurity leader headquartered in Bucharest, Romania, that delivers advanced threat prevention, detection, and response solutions. Founded in 2001, the company protects millions of consumer, business, and government endpoints across more than 170 countries through its antivirus software, cloud security platforms, and Managed Detection and Response (MDR) services.
HQ: San Antonio, United States • Information Technology • DevOps • Artificial Intelligence • Cybersecurity • Est. 2001
≈ $63k – $165k per year (Estimated) • Middle • 3+ years exp • Remote • Middle • French
Incident Management
PagerDuty
Astroscale develops spacecraft and technologies for on-orbit servicing including life-extension, active debris removal, end-of-life services and in-situ space situational awareness. The company builds and operates satellite servicers and demonstration missions, notably the ELSA-d capture demonstrator, to remove or maintain space assets and mitigate orbital debris. Astroscale works with government agencies, commercial satellite operators and international partners to create sustainable space systems, business cases and norms for the responsible use of space.
HQ: Tokyo, Japan • Satellite Manufacturing • Space Services • Space & Aerospace
≈ $24k – $72k per year (Estimated) • Middle • 3+ years exp • In office (Tokyo, Japan) • Full-Time • Middle • Japanese
LiteLLM
LLM
DevOps
Amazon EC2
Ansible
AWS
CI/CD
Configuration Management
Datadog
Docker
Docker Compose
Git
GitHub Actions
GitLab CI
Grafana
Jenkins
Prometheus
Terraform
Ubuntu
Amazon S3
GitHub
GitLab
IAM
Helm
Kubernetes
Ciq is a company that provides a platform for managing cybersecurity risks. They offer a variety of services, including threat intelligence, vulnerability management, and compliance. The company's mission is to help businesses reduce their cybersecurity risks.
Artificial Intelligence • Information Technology • Operating Systems • Est. 2020
≈ $87k – $199k per year (Estimated) • Equity • Senior • 7+ years exp • Remote • Bachelor's Degree • Senior • Arabic: C1
Bash
Python
DevOps
Ansible
AWS
Azure
CI/CD
Configuration Management
eBPF
GCP
GitHub Actions
GitLab CI
Kubernetes
KVM
Podman
QEMU
GitHub
GitLab
HPC
≈ $112k – $243k per year (Estimated) • Equity • Lead • 15+ years exp • Remote • PhD • Principal
C
C
MPI
AI/ML
LLM
ONNX
OpenMP
Quantization
TensorRT
vLLM
AI Agents
InfiniBand
DevOps
CI/CD
eBPF
SLURM
HPC
Wij bieden in de Benelux een scala aan verzekeringsproducten voor particulieren, families en bedrijven. Wij hebben onder andere verzekeringsproducten op het gebied van Ongevallen & Welzijn, Financial Lines, Transport, Brand- en Bedrijfsschade, Aansprakelijkheid, Reizen en Overlijdensrisico.
London • Dublin • Philadelphia • Taipei • Bengaluru • 1001-5000 employees
≈ $40k – $99k per year (Estimated) • Lead • In office (Tokyo, Japan) • Staff
Incident Management
Cybersecurity
ISO 27001
NIST CSF
New Relic is an all-in-one web tracking and observability platform that helps software engineers and DevOps teams monitor, analyze, and optimize their entire technology stack. Its cloud platform ingests telemetry data - such as metrics, events, logs, and traces - to deliver real-time insights into application performance and cloud infrastructure health.
San Francisco • Portland • Barcelona • Bengaluru • Atlanta • Information Technology • Data & Analytics • Data Observability
≈ $46k – $94k per year (Estimated) • Senior • Remote/Hybrid (Tokyo, Japan) • Visa sponsorship • Senior
We’re the fastest way to go from idea to solution. Build on top of a state-of-the-art field tested platform that allows you to build, deliver, monitor, and scale your robotics application. Take a holistic approach including people, processes, and technology.
HQ: Tokyo, Japan • Robotic Software & Control Systems • Robotics • Logistics & Warehouse Robotics • 11-50 employees
In office (Kōtō, Japan) • Bachelor's Degree • Full-Time
ElasticSearch
Google BigQuery
DevOps
Grafana
Analytics
Power BI
Salary range
| Seniority |
Jobs |
25% |
Median |
75% |
| Middle |
14 |
$48K |
$55K |
$96K |
| Senior |
23 |
$61K |
$70K |
$139K |
| Staff |
8 |
$79K |
$92K |
$98K |
| All levels |
89 |
$59K |
$65K |
$92K |
Few employers in this selection publish pay, so these figures are Alion estimates built from comparable listings by role, level and country. Gross annual, converted to USD.
The market right now
Alion currently lists 110 open Observability jobs in Japan from 70 companies. 6 of them were posted or refreshed in the last seven days. 58 of the employers have posted something in the last three months, which is the pool worth watching if you are starting a search now. Every listing links straight to the employer, so you apply on their own board rather than through an intermediary.
What these roles pay
Most employers in this selection do not publish a figure, so the range below is Alion's own estimate, derived from 89 comparable listings priced by role, level and country. Across them the middle half of the market sits between $59K and $92K a year, with a median of $65K. By level, the median runs middle at $55K, senior at $70K, and staff at $92K. The step from middle to staff is worth about 1.7x on median pay. Figures are gross annual amounts converted to US dollars, so roles in different currencies stay comparable.
Where the work is
The largest concentrations of these roles are Japan (65), Australia (1), New Zealand (1), Hong Kong (1), and Singapore (1). 35% of the listings are fully remote and a further 11% are hybrid, so a large part of this market is open to you regardless of where you live.
Who is hiring
The employers with the most open Observability jobs in Japan right now are Money Forward (5), Mercari (5), Medley (5), bitbank (5), MNTSQ (5), and GENIEE (3). Each company page on Alion carries its size, funding stage, tech stack and every other position it has open, so you can judge the employer before you spend an evening on the application.
What employers ask for
Reading across the current listings, the tools that come up most often are AWS (65), Kubernetes (48), CI/CD (46), Python (45), Terraform (43), GCP (43), GitHub (40), and JavaScript (33). The counts are how many of these openings name each one, which is a better guide to what is actually being hired for than a generic skills list.
Relocation, visas and equity
Of the current Observability jobs in Japan, 7 state visa sponsorship, 1 offers a relocation package, and 13 include equity. These are filters on the list above, so you can narrow it to the ones that make a move possible for you.
