Rakuten
Jobs, news, and who works there
As of 2026-10-20, Skillenai has indexed 131 Rakuten job postings over the past 90 days (down 37% vs the prior 4 weeks). Rakuten appeared in 18 news articles in the same window.
Last updated · 90d ending 2026-10-20
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Hiring at Rakuten
Weekly Rakuten job postings — last 90 days
Roles Rakuten is hiring for
| Name | Postings | Share |
|---|---|---|
| Product Manager | 20 | 15.3% |
| Software Engineer | 9 | 6.9% |
| Data Analyst | 6 | 4.6% |
| Backend Engineer | 5 | 3.8% |
| Cloud Engineer | 3 | 2.3% |
| Data Engineer | 3 | 2.3% |
| Data Scientist | 3 | 2.3% |
| DevOps Engineer | 3 | 2.3% |
| Information Security Specialist | 3 | 2.3% |
| Program Manager | 3 | 2.3% |
Skills in Rakuten job postings
| Name | Postings | Share |
|---|---|---|
| Python | 28 | 21.4% |
| SQL | 27 | 20.6% |
| Java | 23 | 17.6% |
| Kubernetes | 19 | 14.5% |
| CI/CD | 18 | 13.7% |
| Docker | 17 | 13.0% |
| project management | 15 | 11.5% |
| machine learning | 15 | 11.5% |
| Jenkins | 14 | 10.7% |
| Data analysis | 14 | 10.7% |
| AWS | 13 | 9.9% |
| Generative AI | 12 | 9.2% |
| JavaScript | 11 | 8.4% |
| Git | 10 | 7.6% |
| GCP | 10 | 7.6% |
Where Rakuten is hiring
| Name | Postings | Share |
|---|---|---|
| Tokyo | 111 | 84.7% |
| Toronto | 5 | 3.8% |
| San Mateo | 4 | 3.1% |
| São Paulo | 3 | 2.3% |
| Barcelona | 1 | 0.8% |
| Fukuoka | 1 | 0.8% |
| Osaka | 1 | 0.8% |
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
- Master2
- Bachelor1
Field of study
- Information Systems1
Schools
- RWTH Aachen University1
- Texas McCombs School of Business1
- University of Massachusetts Amherst1
- Northeastern University1
- Weber State University1
- Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute1
- Carnegie Mellon University1
- Japan Advanced Institute of Science and Technology1
Rakuten in the news
18 news articles and 79 blog posts mentioned Rakuten in the last 90 days.
News
- AI Digest — April 10, 2026aidigest.shelfcritter.com · April 10, 2026
- NTT Data in talks to build 500 MW Anthropic data centre in Japantheworldofai.org · October 13, 2026
- 40+ Agentic AI Use Cases with Real-life Examplesaipowerranking.com · August 26, 2026
- Anthropic Adds Nvidia OpenShell Controls to Claude Managed Agentsaistify.com · September 28, 2026
- 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
Blogs
- Intuit Intelligence lands in Australia as QuickBooks takes its AI agent fight to Xero and MYOBitwire.com · October 14, 2026
- New Business Bulletin: Rakuten TV, Bannerflow, Rightmove, Lacuna and morenewdigitalage.co · October 16, 2026
- Claude Managed Agents: Build AI Agents Without Writing Codecomputeleap.com · April 9, 2026
- Claude Opus 4.7 vs 4.6: Performance, Pricing, Downsides & xhigh Explained (Apr 2026)smartscope.blog · April 17, 2026
- Claude Opus 4.7で何が変わった？Opus 4.6比較でわかる性能・料金・デメリット【2026年4月版】smartscope.blog · April 17, 2026
- OpenAI plays defense as open weights and agents redraw the coding stackjacksunwei.me · April 21, 2026
How this was computed
Job counts are postings whose employer resolves to Rakuten over the 90 days ending 2026-10-20; 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
- 2026-10-20
- window_days
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- profiles_as_of
- 2026-09-24