Platform Data Reliability Engineer – Automation & Cloud

PlayStation; San Mateo (CA); On-site; USD 140,000 - 180,000; Full time

Job summary

PlayStation is seeking a Software Engineer II focused on Platform Data Reliability & Automation. You will build, automate, and operate scalable data platforms using Infrastructure as Code and cloud technologies across AWS and GCP.

You’ll improve reliability of NoSQL, streaming, and caching services and contribute to observability tooling and operational playbooks. Working with platform and product teams, you’ll write Go code, participate in on-call rotations, and help define SLIs/SLAs while

Qualifications

• Bachelor’s or Master’s degree in Computer Science or a related field, or equivalent practical experience.
• Observability tools and practices: metrics, logging, tracing, alerting, dashboards.
• Hands-on experience with Terraform or Ansible for IaC/configuration management.
• Experience writing production Go code, with testing, concurrency, and maintainability in mind.
• 3+ years in software engineering, site reliability or platform engineering.
• Familiarity with NoSQL, caching, or streaming tech (Cassandra, Aerospike, Kafka, Redis).
• Experience with AWS or GCP and managed services like MSK, DynamoDB, ElastiCache, Memorystore.

Responsibilities

• Develop, automate, and operate scalable data platforms using IaC and cloud technologies.
• Improve reliability and automation of NoSQL, streaming, and caching services across AWS/GCP.
• Build tooling for deployment, observability, and operational workflows.
• Contribute to incident response, root-cause analysis, and permanent fixes.
• Collaborate with engineering, platform, security, and operations teams.

Skills

Go programming

Infrastructure as Code

Terraform

Ansible

Observability

Linux

Kubernetes

Cloud services (AWS/GCP)

Incident response

Communication

Education

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

Tools

Kafka

Cassandra

Aerospike

Redis

AWS MSK

DynamoDB

ElastiCache

Memorystore

Job description

PlayStation is seeking a Software Engineer II focused on Platform Data Reliability & Automation. You will build, automate, and operate scalable data platforms using Infrastructure as Code and cloud technologies across AWS and GCP.

You’ll improve reliability of NoSQL, streaming, and caching services and contribute to observability tooling and operational playbooks. Working with platform and product teams, you’ll write Go code, participate in on-call rotations, and help define SLIs/SLAs while