Software Engineer II Data Reliability & Automation (APIs)

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Ready to level up your career Join PlayStation as a Software Engineer II focused on developing reliable automated infrastructure platforms that support data services used by millions of players worldwide.

Youll work across software development Infrastructure as Code database infrastructure and operational reliability. Youll also help develop APIs and agent-assisted experiences that make infrastructure creation and management simpler safer and more accessible to engineering teams.

We are seeking a Software Engineer II to help build automate and operate scalable data infrastructure across cloud environments.

This role combines backend software development with infrastructure automation and operational engineering. Youll develop Go services APIs Terraform modules and automation for provisioning and managing databases streaming platforms and caching services such as Cassandra Aurora Aerospike Kafka and Redis.

Youll also contribute to enabling self-service experiences that translate developer intent into validated infrastructure configurations and provisioning workflows. Working alongside senior engineers and platform teams youll help ensure these capabilities are reliable secure observable and safe to operate at scale.

• Develop and maintain software APIs and automation for provisioning and managing database streaming and caching infrastructure.
• Build and maintain reusable Terraform modules and Infrastructure as Code workflows for cloud Kubernetes and data-platform services.
• Develop backend services and platform tooling in Go to support infrastructure provisioning configuration and lifecycle management.
• Automate operational activities such as deployment configuration scaling upgrades backup recovery failover and decommissioning.
• Help operate and improve SQL NoSQL streaming and caching platforms at scale including technologies such as Cassandra Aurora Aerospike Kafka/MSK Redis DynamoDB and ElastiCache.
• Contribute to the availability scalability performance and reliability of stateful data services
• Help build self-service and agent-assisted experiences that translate developer intent into structured infrastructure specifications and Terraform-based execution plans.
• Build and enhance observability using metrics logs traces dashboards and actionable alerts.
• Participate in on-call rotations and incident response for database caching streaming and supporting platform services.
• Troubleshoot infrastructure and application issues involving database performance capacity connectivity replication storage and resource utilization.
• Contribute to root-cause analysis and implement automated or systemic fixes that prevent recurring incidents.
• Help define and measure SLIs SLOs error budgets and operational health indicators for platform services.
• Create automated tests for APIs Terraform modules infrastructure plans operational tooling and failure scenarios.
• Collaborate with engineering platform security and operations teams to deliver reliable and scalable data services.
• Maintain technical documentation API specifications operational playbooks runbooks and onboarding materials.
• Participate in code reviews design discussions capacity planning and continuous improvement initiatives.

• 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 infrastructure automation or a related field.
• Experience developing production software backend services or infrastructure tooling in Go.
• Hands on experience using Terraform to provision and manage cloud infrastructure.
• Experience developing APIs including interface design validation error handling testing and versioning.
• Working knowledge of one or more SQL NoSQL streaming or caching technologies such as Cassandra Aurora Aerospike Kafka AWS MSK Redis DynamoDB or ElastiCache.
• Understanding of database and distributed-system concepts such as replication partitioning consistency availability fault tolerance backup and recovery.
• Familiarity with the operational requirements of stateful systems including capacity planning performance monitoring scaling upgrades backup and recovery and incident troubleshooting.
• Experience with AWS or GCP including familiarity with cloud networking identity compute storage and managed data services.
• Working knowledge of Kubernetes and experience deploying or operating containerized workloads.
• Understanding of Linux networking storage systems and common troubleshooting techniques.
• Familiarity with observability practices including metrics structured logging tracing alerting and dashboards.
• Experience writing unit integration and automated end-to-end tests.
• Strong problem-solving and analytical skills with an interest in infrastructure automation and distributed-system reliability.
• Strong written and verbal communication skills and the ability to collaborate effectively across teams.

• Experience building internal developer platforms self-service infrastructure or infrastructure APIs.
• Experience using AI/ML or generative AI to improve infrastructure automation operational workflows incident management observability or developer productivity.
• Familiarity with agent-assisted workflows structured outputs tool-calling integrations approval controls or policy-based infrastructure automation.
• Relevant AWS GCP Kubernetes Terraform database or streaming-platform certifications.

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