Staff Platform Engineer, Network Automation & APIs

PlayStation Global; Adelaide; On-site; AUD 180,000 - 240,000; Full time

Job summary

Sony Interactive Entertainment is seeking a Staff Software Engineer in Adelaide to shape the next generation of network automation platforms. You will lead architectural direction, craft APIs and control-plane services, and guide multi-tenant infrastructure projects across a global footprint.

The role requires deep backend expertise (Python/Go/Rust/Java), Kubernetes controller experience, and strong technical leadership. Expect high impact on production systems and cross-team collaboration.

Qualifications

• Deep expertise in a backend language such as Python, Go, Rust or Java, including asynchronous concurrency, static typing, data modelling and validation, API development, packaging and tooling.
• Strong experience building Kubernetes controllers or operators, including custom resources and reconciliation/control-loop patterns.
• Strong experience building event-driven distributed systems, particularly eventual consistency, at-least-once delivery, idempotency, optimistic concurrency and partial-failure handling.
• Experience designing and building self-service, multi-tenant platforms, including tenant isolation, policy and access control.
• Strong API and schema design skills, including versioning and schema evolution for interfaces consumed by other teams and systems.
• Demonstrated technical leadership across team boundaries, including driving architectural designs, building agreement among senior technical stakeholders and mentoring other engineers.

Responsibilities

• Provide technical leadership and architectural direction for network automation and infrastructure control platforms.
• Use domain-driven design with network experts to establish shared language and bounded contexts, and translate agreements into contracts.
• Design and build APIs, services, controllers and reconciliation workflows for scalable production infrastructure.
• Own the operational Kubernetes path: CRD rollout, RBAC, admission, and deployment drift management.
• Lead complex migrations and modernization of automation, ensuring safe coexistence with legacy paths.

Skills

Backend languages: Python

Backend languages: Go

Backend languages: Rust

Backend languages: Java

Kubernetes controllers

Event-driven systems

Tools

Kubernetes

Job description

Sony Interactive Entertainment is seeking a Staff Software Engineer in Adelaide to shape the next generation of network automation platforms. You will lead architectural direction, craft APIs and control-plane services, and guide multi-tenant infrastructure projects across a global footprint.

The role requires deep backend expertise (Python/Go/Rust/Java), Kubernetes controller experience, and strong technical leadership. Expect high impact on production systems and cross-team collaboration.