Senior Software Engineer (Platform Data Reliability & Automation)

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 Senior Software Engineer focused on Platform Data Reliability and Automation and help drive innovation at the forefront of interactive entertainment. Youll be part of a world-class engineering team focused on building seamless scalable experiences for millions of players around the globe.

At PlayStation were known not only for delivering exceptional gaming experiences but also for fostering a top-tier engineering environment centered on innovation creativity and technical excellence. We welcome passionate engineers who thrive on solving complex problems and are aligned with our vision of shaping the future of play.

Role Overview:

We are seeking a Senior Software Engineer (Platform Data Reliability & Automation) to play a critical role in building automating and operating scalable data platforms with a strong emphasis on Infrastructure as Code (IaC) and cloud technologies.

This role focuses on the reliability and automation of NoSQL Streaming and Caching services across AWS and GCP environments. Youll design robust automation frameworks ensure high availability and partner with product and platform teams to deliver resilient highly available infrastructure supporting billions of transactions and millions of players globally.

By embracing Development & DBRE principles driving automation-first practices and applying AI/ML where applicable youll enhance system uptime reduce manual toil and enable velocity for engineering teams across PlayStation.

Youll work closely with platform and product teams to ensure seamless integration and delivery of high-performance scalable solutions across PlayStations global ecosystem. Your contributions will directly support the reliability scalability and operational excellence of our data platform powering millions of players worldwide.

Responsibilities:

• Design and implement Infrastructure as Code (IaC) and automate the provisioning monitoring scaling and lifecycle management of NoSQL Streaming and Caching platforms (e.g. Cassandra Aerospike Kafka Redis).
  
  
• Drive end-to-end automation to enable repeatable reliable and self-service deployment of data services across cloud and hybrid environments.
  
  
• Ensure high availability scalability and resiliency of the platform data solutions .
  
  
• Define and enforce SLIs SLOs and error margins for data platforms to drive reliability engineering practices.
  
  
• Build highly performant self-healing systems automated failover and auto scaling solutions for databases and streaming platforms.
  
  
• Develop observability solutions (metrics logging tracing) for Cassandra Aerospike Redis and Kafka/MSK to ensure proactive issue detection.
  
  
• Partner with engineering and platform teams to provide reliable scalable and performant data services.
  
  
• Lead incident response for critical database/caching/streaming issues and drive root cause analysis with permanent automated fixes.
  
  
• Explore and apply AI-driven approaches to automation (e.g. anomaly detection predictive scaling automated remediation) to enhance operational efficiency.
  
  
• Drive and implement best practices procedures operational playbooks to facilitate knowledge sharing and support continuous improvement across global teams
  
  
• Mentor junior engineers and influence best practices in automation distributed systems and database reliability.
  
  

Skills and Qualifications:

• Bachelors or Masters degree in Computer Science or a related field
  
  
• 6 years of software development and DBRE experience with at least 3 years focused on Go and Infrastructure As Code with an emphasis on automation.
  
  
• Deep proficiency in Go (Golang) with the ability to write performant idiomatic and maintainable code for production-scale systems
  
  
• Proven experience designing modular domain-driven architectures in Go supporting large and complex backend services
  
  
• Expertise with infrastructure-as-code tools such as Terraform Ansible.
  
  
• Deep expertise operating large-scale NoSQL caching and streaming platforms (Apache Kafka Redis AWS MSK etc) including tuning compaction strategies repair operations backup/recovery and performance optimization.
  
  
• Solid understanding of Linux internals networking and storage systems.
  
  
• Experience building deploying and operating stateful workloads on Kubernetes including automation and lifecycle management of database and streaming platforms.
  
  
• Hands-on experience with AWS and/or GCP including managed services such as MSK DynamoDB ElastiCache or equivalent technologies.
  
  
• Strong problem-solving and analytical skills with a passion for automation and distributed systems reliability.
  
  
• Excellent communication and collaboration skills with experience mentoring and influencing peers across diverse teams
  
  
• Experience building internal developer platforms self-service infrastructure or platform engineering solutions that improve developer productivity and operational efficiency.
  
  
• Prior use of Go for infrastructure automation control plane services or SRE-focused tooling is a plus
  
  
• Experience leveraging AI/ML and Generative AI technologies to improve infrastructure automation operational workflows incident management observability or developer productivity is a huge plus.
  
  
• Certification in relevant technologies (e.g. AWS Certified Database - Specialty) is a plus

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