Platform Data Reliability & Automation Engineer II

Sony Playstation; San Mateo (CA); Hybrid; USD 150,000 - 225,000; Full time

Job summary

Sony Interactive Entertainment is seeking a Software Engineer II to build reliable, scalable data platforms using IaC and cloud tech. You’ll work on NoSQL, streaming, and caching services across AWS and GCP, applying software engineering and database reliability principles.

Collaborate with platform, security, and operations teams to automate deployments, improve observability, and reduce manual work. Proficiency in Go and experience with Terraform or Ansible are highly valued, and you’ll

Qualifications

• Bachelor’s or Master’s 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 NoSQL, caching, or streaming technologies (e.g., Cassandra, Aerospike, Kafka, Redis).
• Understanding of distributed systems concepts (availability, consistency, replication, fault tolerance, horizontal scaling).
• Working knowledge of Linux, networking, storage, and common system-troubleshooting techniques.
• Familiarity with observability tools (metrics, logging, tracing, alerts, dashboards).
• Ability to diagnose and resolve technical problems, learn unfamiliar systems, and collaborate across teams.
• Strong written and verbal communication skills.

Responsibilities

• Develop, maintain, and improve Infrastructure as Code and configuration-management automation using 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.

Skills

Go programming

Kubernetes

IaC

Terraform

Ansible

AWS

GCP

Cassandra

Aerospike

Kafka

Redis

Linux

Observability

Education

Bachelor’s or Master’s in Computer Science or related field

Tools

Terraform

Ansible

Kubernetes

AWS

GCP

Cassandra

Aerospike

Kafka

Redis

Job description

Sony Interactive Entertainment is seeking a Software Engineer II to build reliable, scalable data platforms using IaC and cloud tech. You’ll work on NoSQL, streaming, and caching services across AWS and GCP, applying software engineering and database reliability principles.

Collaborate with platform, security, and operations teams to automate deployments, improve observability, and reduce manual work. Proficiency in Go and experience with Terraform or Ansible are highly valued, and you’ll