Rakuten
Jobs, news, and who works there
As of 2026-09-29, Skillenai has indexed 103 Rakuten job postings over the past 90 days (down 68% vs the prior 4 weeks). Rakuten appeared in 25 news articles in the same window.
Last updated · 90d ending 2026-09-29
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Hiring at Rakuten
Weekly Rakuten job postings — last 90 days
Roles Rakuten is hiring for
| Name | Postings | Share |
|---|---|---|
| Product Manager | 16 | 15.5% |
| Software Engineer | 7 | 6.8% |
| Data Analyst | 6 | 5.8% |
| Backend Engineer | 4 | 3.9% |
| Data Scientist | 3 | 2.9% |
| Frontend Engineer | 3 | 2.9% |
| Program Manager | 3 | 2.9% |
| AI Engineer | 2 | 1.9% |
| Cloud Engineer | 2 | 1.9% |
| DevOps Engineer | 2 | 1.9% |
Skills in Rakuten job postings
| Name | Postings | Share |
|---|---|---|
| Python | 22 | 21.4% |
| SQL | 22 | 21.4% |
| Java | 19 | 18.4% |
| Docker | 13 | 12.6% |
| Kubernetes | 13 | 12.6% |
| machine learning | 13 | 12.6% |
| Data analysis | 13 | 12.6% |
| project management | 12 | 11.7% |
| CI/CD | 11 | 10.7% |
| AWS | 11 | 10.7% |
| Jenkins | 10 | 9.7% |
| JavaScript | 10 | 9.7% |
| HTML | 9 | 8.7% |
| Azure | 8 | 7.8% |
| GCP | 8 | 7.8% |
Where Rakuten is hiring
| Name | Postings | Share |
|---|---|---|
| Tokyo | 85 | 82.5% |
| San Mateo | 4 | 3.9% |
| Toronto | 4 | 3.9% |
| São Paulo | 3 | 2.9% |
| Barcelona | 1 | 1.0% |
| Fukuoka | 1 | 1.0% |
| Osaka | 1 | 1.0% |
Who works at Rakuten
From the career profiles Skillenai holds for current staff. Small groups are withheld.
Skills on staff profiles
- sql18%
- python18%
- terraform7%
- Jira7%
- GCP7%
- storage7%
- T-SQL7%
- C#7%
- docker7%
- stored procedures7%
- data flows4%
- oracle4%
- ETL4%
- supply chain integration4%
- FBDI4%
- Product Strategy4%
Share of observed positions at Rakuten that list the skill.
Degree level
- Bachelor2
- Master2
Field of study
- Information Systems1
- Management Information Systems1
Schools
- Texas McCombs School of Business1
- Northeastern University1
- Weber State University1
- University of California, Irvine1
- Carnegie Mellon University1
- Japan Advanced Institute of Science and Technology1
- University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign1
- Columbia College1
Rakuten in the news
25 news articles and 73 blog posts mentioned Rakuten in the last 90 days.
News
- Autoheal Raises $7.9M From Innovation Endeavors to Make Enterprise Software Heal Itselfhackernoon.com · September 28, 2026
- AST SpaceMobile: The Texas Startup Betting Everything on Cell Tower in Spacemorningtick.com · September 21, 2026
- Reel in Success: Google Ads Video Advertising Guiderankingco.com.au · December 27, 2024
- The winning agentic AI strategy looks more like a team.news.tdsynnex.com · September 17, 2026
- Nine Korean Startups Make Forbes Asia 100 to Watch 2026en.wowtale.net · August 26, 2026
- Japan Set to Demonstrate Helsing’s AI-Based HX-2 Strike Droneeletimes.ai · August 24, 2026
Blogs
- Coding agent speed vs accuracy: how to decideprefactor.tech · September 14, 2026
- Inside the Global Wave of National Sovereign AI Modelsthexpin.com · September 11, 2026
- Claude Memory and Dream: Evidence, Architecture and Riskreinvently.co.uk · May 20, 2026
- Anthropic Just Made the Agent Harness a Productcodemyspec.com · April 8, 2026
- $65 Billion in Revenue. Seven Times Bigger Than a Year Ago. The Bubble Debate Is Over.reloadnyc.com · August 20, 2026
- The West Just Got Destroyed. Your Company Is Next.reloadnyc.com · August 24, 2026
How this was computed
Job counts are postings whose employer resolves to Rakuten over the 90 days ending 2026-09-29; mentions are news and blog documents that resolve to the same entity. Career-profile aggregates come from the Skillenai talent graph with the same suppression the talent-graph API applies.
- note
- Observed profiles counts the career profiles Skillenai holds at this company, not its employee count.
- source
- Skillenai jobs, news and blog indices; Skillenai career-profile corpus
- company_id
- d3adae0b4d198708
- data_as_of
- 2026-09-29
- window_days
- 90
- profiles_as_of
- 2026-09-24