Platform Data Reliability Engineer II — Automation & APIs

Sonyinteractiveentertainmentglobal; California (MO); Hybrid; USD 150,000 - 225,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Medical insurance

Dental insurance

Vision care

401(k) matching

Paid time off

Wellness program

Employee discounts

Job summary

Sony Interactive Entertainment is seeking a Software Engineer II to build reliable, automated data infrastructure across cloud environments. You will develop Go services, APIs, Terraform modules, and automation for provisioning and managing databases, streaming platforms, and caching services.

You will contribute to self-service experiences, ensure observability, and participate in on-call rotations. The role emphasizes scalability, reliability, and collaboration with engineering, security, and

Qualifications

• Bachelor’s or Master’s in CS or related field, or equivalent practical experience.
• 3+ years in software engineering, SRE, or platform engineering.
• Experience building production software or infrastructure tooling in Go.
• Hands-on Terraform for cloud provisioning.
• API development including design, validation, error handling, and versioning.
• Experience with AWS or GCP and Kubernetes.
• Knowledge of Linux, networking, storage, and incident troubleshooting.
• Observability practices: metrics, logs, traces.
• Experience with unit/integration tests.

Responsibilities

• Develop and maintain software, APIs, and automation for provisioning and managing database, streaming, and caching infrastructure.
• Build and maintain Terraform modules and IaC workflows for cloud, Kubernetes, and data-platform services.
• Develop Go backend services to support provisioning, configuration, and lifecycle management.
• Automate deployment, scaling, upgrades, backup, recovery, and failover processes.
• Operate and improve Cassandra, Aurora, Aerospike, Kafka, Redis, DynamoDB, and ElastiCache at scale.
• Enable self-service experiences translating developer intent into infrastructure configurations.
• Build observability with metrics, logs, traces, dashboards, and alerts.
• Participate in on-call rotations and incident response for database and platform services.
• Contribute to root-cause analysis and automated fixes.

Skills

Go backend

Terraform

APIs design

SQL/NoSQL

Kubernetes

AWS/GCP

Observability

Education

Bachelor's or Master's in CS or related field

Tools

Terraform

Go tooling

Job description

Sony Interactive Entertainment is seeking a Software Engineer II to build reliable, automated data infrastructure across cloud environments. You will develop Go services, APIs, Terraform modules, and automation for provisioning and managing databases, streaming platforms, and caching services.

You will contribute to self-service experiences, ensure observability, and participate in on-call rotations. The role emphasizes scalability, reliability, and collaboration with engineering, security, and