Platform Data Reliability Engineer II | Go & IaC Automation

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

Benefits offered by this job

Medical insurance

Dental insurance

Vision

401(k) matching

Paid time off

Wellness program

Employee discounts on Sony products

Job summary

Sony Interactive Entertainment seeks a Software Engineer II focused on Platform Data Reliability & Automation to build scalable data platforms using IaC and cloud tech (AWS/GCP). You will automate NoSQL, streaming, and caching services and contribute to observability, tooling, and on‑call incident response.

Join a team improving reliability across Cassandra, Aerospike, Kafka, Redis, and related services, writing Go for infrastructure automation and collaborating with cross‑functional engineers

Qualifications

• Bachelor’s or Master’s degree 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.

Responsibilities

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

Terraform

Ansible

Kubernetes

AWS

GCP

NoSQL databases

Redis

Observability

Linux

Networking

Incident response

Education

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

Tools

Terraform

Ansible

Kubernetes

AWS

GCP

MSK

DynamoDB

ElastiCache

Memorystore

Cassandra

Aerospike

Kafka

Redis

Job description

Sony Interactive Entertainment seeks a Software Engineer II focused on Platform Data Reliability & Automation to build scalable data platforms using IaC and cloud tech (AWS/GCP). You will automate NoSQL, streaming, and caching services and contribute to observability, tooling, and on‑call incident response.

Join a team improving reliability across Cassandra, Aerospike, Kafka, Redis, and related services, writing Go for infrastructure automation and collaborating with cross‑functional engineers