Sony
Senior Software Engineer (Platform Data Reliability & Automation)
United States, San Diego, CA · Senior
Sponsorship not specified$177k-$266kDetected 12 days ago
GoDistributed SystemsBackend DevelopmentNoSQLRedisCassandraDynamoDBAWSGCPKubernetesTerraformLinuxSite Reliability EngineeringPlatform EngineeringKafkaMachine LearningLLMsIncident ResponseCommunicationCollaborationProblem SolvingMentoring
About the role
- This role focuses on the reliability and automation of NoSQL, Streaming, and Caching services across AWS and GCP environments.
- By embracing Development & DBRE principles, driving automation-first practices, and applying AI/ML where applicable, you'll enhance system uptime, reduce manual toil, and enable velocity for engineering teams across PlayStation.
- You'll work closely with platform and product teams to ensure seamless integration and delivery of high-performance, scalable solutions across PlayStation's global ecosystem.
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).
- 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.
- Drive and implement best practices, procedures, operational playbooks to facilitate knowledge sharing and support continuous improvement across global teams
- Our role at SIE is to create and nurture the experiences under the PlayStation brand, a name synonymous with entertainment excellence and creativity.
- Join PlayStation as a Senior Software Engineer focused on Platform Data Reliability and Automation and help drive innovation at the forefront of interactive entertainment.
- You'll be part of a world-class engineering team focused on building seamless, scalable experiences for millions of players around the globe.
Requirements
- Bachelor's or Master's 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.
- Hands-on experience with AWS and/or GCP, including managed services such as MSK, DynamoDB, ElastiCache, or equivalent technologies.
- 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.
- 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.
Nice to have
- 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
Compensation
- At SIE, we consider several factors when setting each role's base pay range, including the competitive benchmarking data for the market and geographic location.
Benefits
- We welcome passionate engineers who thrive on solving complex problems and are aligned with our vision of shaping the future of play.
Company info
- As a subsidiary of Sony Group Corporation, we're part of a proud legacy of innovation and excellence.
- At PlayStation, we're known not only for delivering exceptional gaming experiences but also for fostering a top-tier engineering environment centered on innovation, creativity, and technical excellence.
Equal opportunity
- Statement:
- Sony is an Equal Opportunity Employer. All persons will receive
- Sony is an Equal Opportunity Employer.
- All persons will receive
This listing is sourced directly from Sony's careers page and normalized into a canonical job model.