Software Engineer II Platform Data Reliability

Why Sony Interactive Entertainment

Sony Interactive Entertainment isnt just the Best Place to Play its also the Best Place to Work. Sony Interactive Entertainment (SIE) is the company behind the PlayStation brand. As a subsidiary of Sony Group Corporation were part of a proud legacy of innovation and excellence. SIE is a dynamic technology company delivering cutting-edge hardware and network services to more than 100 million people and an entertainment leader home to some of the most beloved and recognizable intellectual properties (IP) in the world. Our role at SIE is to create and nurture the experiences under the PlayStation brand a name synonymous with entertainment excellence and creativity.

Ready to level up your career Join PlayStation as a Software Engineer II focused on Platform Data Reliability and Automation and help build reliable scalable experiences for millions of players around the globe.

At PlayStation were known not only for delivering exceptional gaming experiences but also for fostering an engineering environment centered on innovation creativity collaboration and technical excellence. We welcome passionate engineers who enjoy solving challenging problems and are excited about shaping the future of play.

We are seeking a Software Engineer II (Platform Data Reliability & Automation) to help build automate and operate scalable data platforms using Infrastructure as Code (IaC) and cloud technologies.

This role focuses on improving the reliability and automation of NoSQL streaming and caching services across AWS and GCP environments. Youll develop automation observability and operational tooling supporting technologies such as Cassandra Aerospike Kafka and Redis.

Working alongside senior engineers platform teams and product teams youll contribute to highly available infrastructure supporting billions of transactions and millions of players globally. By applying software engineering and database reliability engineering principles youll help reduce manual work improve system uptime and make data services easier and safer for engineering teams to use.

• Develop maintain and improve Infrastructure as Code and configuration-management automation using tools such as Terraform and Ansible to provision configure monitor scale and manage NoSQL streaming and caching platforms.
• Build automation that enables repeatable and reliable deployment of data services across cloud and hybrid environments.
• Contribute to the reliability availability scalability performance and resiliency of platform data services.
• Contribute to defining measuring and improving service-level indicators service-level objectives and error budgets.
• Develop automation for operational activities such as scaling failover backup recovery upgrades and routine maintenance.
• Build and enhance observability solutions using metrics logging tracing dashboards and alerts.
• Troubleshoot issues affecting Cassandra Aerospike Kafka/MSK Redis and related platform services.
• Participate in on-call rotations and incident response contributing to root-cause analysis and the implementation of permanent fixes.
• Write reliable maintainable and well-tested Go code for infrastructure automation platform services and operational tooling.
• Collaborate with engineering platform security and operations teams to integrate and deliver reliable data services.
• Create and maintain operational documentation procedures runbooks and automation playbooks.
• Participate in code reviews technical design discussions and continuous improvement initiatives.
• Explore practical applications of AI-assisted automation anomaly detection automated remediation and developer-productivity tooling where appropriate.

• Bachelors or Masters degree in Computer Science or a related field or equivalent practical experience.
• 3 years of experience in software engineering database reliability engineering site reliability engineering platform engineering or a related field.
• Experience developing production software in Go with an understanding of idiomatic code testing concurrency error handling and maintainability.
• Hands-on experience developing or maintaining Infrastructure as Code or configuration-management tools such as Terraform or Ansible.
• Experience deploying or operating workloads on Kubernetes.
• Experience with AWS or GCP and familiarity with managed services such as MSK DynamoDB ElastiCache Memorystore or equivalent technologies.
• Working knowledge of one or more NoSQL caching or streaming technologies such as Cassandra Aerospike Kafka AWS MSK or Redis.
• Understanding of distributed systems concepts including availability consistency replication fault tolerance and horizontal scaling.
• Working knowledge of Linux networking storage and common system-troubleshooting techniques.
• Familiarity with observability tools and practices including metrics logging tracing alerting and dashboard creation.
• Ability to independently diagnose and resolve technical problems within a defined scope learn unfamiliar systems and seek guidance when addressing complex or ambiguous challenges.
• Strong written and verbal communication skills with the ability to collaborate effectively across teams.

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