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Explore hand-picked jobs in Japan for English speakers across tech, education, marketing, and more.
Vetted companies only. Apply from overseas.
OpenAIThe Support Engineering team works closely with Engineering, Product, Technical Success, Go-to-Market, and other teams to deliver an exceptional experience for our most strategic customers. We combine deep technical troubleshooting with durable customer context, proactive reliability work, and clear ownership during critical moments. We use automation, agents, and our own technology to help build the future of technical support. We’re looking for experienced, deeply curious technical problem-solvers to serve as trusted support partners for our Premium Support customers. You’ll work directly with customers on novel, ambiguous, and high-impact technical issues, using logs, telemetry, reproduction, and systems-level investigation to isolate causes and drive issues toward resolution. Beyond resolving individual issues, you’ll use your deep understanding of OpenAI’s infrastructure and products, together with each customer’s architecture and operating context, to anticipate risk and make their workloads more resilient over time. You’ll proactively monitor integrations, identify emerging failure patterns and architectural breakpoints, and work with customers and internal teams to address them before they become incidents. Success means that as a customer’s workloads mature and scale, the day-to-day effort required to support them decreases through better monitoring, runbooks, automation, and preventative improvements. This role is based in Tokyo. We use a hybrid work model of 3 days in the office per week and offer relocation assistance to new employees. To succeed in this position you must be fully bilingual—fluent in both Japanese and English (spoken and written). Please note that your resume must be submitted in English, and the interview process will include conversations in both languages.
- Have significant experience in Support Engineering, Solutions Engineering, Solutions Architecture, or another role involving hands-on diagnosis of complex production issues. - Have expert-level troubleshooting skills and a strong track record of resolving ambiguous technical problems across APIs, distributed systems, cloud infrastructure, and enterprise integrations. - Are comfortable working with logs, metrics, traces, API requests, authentication flows, and customer-provided code or configurations to understand system behavior and test hypotheses. - Have experience leading or playing a central role in customer-impacting incidents, including severity assessment, technical coordination, stakeholder communication, root-cause analysis, and post-incident follow-through. - Can write code or scripts to reproduce issues, interrogate systems, automate repetitive work, and improve internal tools. Experience with Python, JavaScript, or similar languages is valuable.
- Can communicate complex technical issues clearly to engineers, customer technical teams, business stakeholders, and senior leaders—especially when information is incomplete or evolving. - Build strong, high-trust relationships with customers and cross-functional partners while maintaining clear and scalable ownership boundaries. - Look beyond the immediate issue to identify patterns, improve the system, and prevent the same problem from recurring. - Thrive in ambiguity, update quickly as new information emerges, and are willing to learn whatever is needed to get the job done. - Bring a humble, team-first mindset, strong judgment, and a genuine eagerness to help both customers and colleagues succeed. - Are excited to use OpenAI’s products, agents, and emerging AI capabilities to transform how technical support operates at scale.
- We use a hybrid work model of 3 days in the office per week and offer relocation assistance to new employees.
