Senior Platform Engineer at Sony Interactive Entertainment

<div class="content-intro"><p><strong>Why Sony Interactive Entertainment?</strong></p> <p>Sony Interactive Entertainment isn’t just the Best Place to Play — it’s also the Best Place to Work. Sony Interactive Entertainment (SIE) is the company behind the PlayStation brand. As a subsidiary of Sony Group Corporation, we’re part of a proud legacy of innovation and excellence. SIE is a dynamic technology company, delivering cutting-edge hardware and network services to more than 100 million people and an entertainment leader, home to some of the most beloved and recognizable intellectual properties (IP) in the world. Our role at SIE is to create and nurture the experiences under the PlayStation brand, a name synonymous with entertainment excellence and creativity.</p></div><h2><span style="font-size: 12pt;">Role overview:</span></h2> <p><span style="font-size: 12pt;">As part of Sony Interactive Entertainment's Gaming, Developer &amp; Future Technology Group (GDFT), our Platform Engineering team plays a significant role in delivering a world-class platform experience to millions of players around the globe.</span></p> <p><span style="font-size: 12pt;">We are looking for a&nbsp;<strong>Senior Platform Engineer</strong> with a strong focus on observability to join our Berlin team. This is a high-impact, hands-on role at the heart of a strategic company-wide initiative: migrating our observability stack to <strong>OpenTelemetry</strong>, reducing vendor lock-in across our current tooling and giving us the flexibility to evolve our stack on our own terms.</span></p> <p><span style="font-size: 12pt;">You will be a key executor of this migration strategy, working with a high degree of autonomy alongside a team based in Berlin, California, and Australia. You are someone who gets things done — comfortable making sound technical decisions and writing code to solve problems when needed.</span></p> <h2><span style="font-size: 12pt;">What You'll Be Doing:</span></h2> <ul> <li style="font-size: 12pt;"><span style="font-size: 12pt;">Play a key hands-on role in the company-wide adoption of OpenTelemetry, implementing and contributing to the reduction of vendor lock-in across our current observability tooling (Datadog, Grafana, and bespoke solutions)</span></li> <li style="font-size: 12pt;"><span style="font-size: 12pt;">Design, build, and operate a centralized observability platform covering metrics, logs, traces, alerting, and profiling</span></li> <li style="font-size: 12pt;"><span style="font-size: 12pt;">Establish and promote observability best practices and standards across engineering teams</span></li> <li style="font-size: 12pt;"><span style="font-size: 12pt;">Develop tooling and automation directly tied to the observability platform</span></li> <li style="font-size: 12pt;"><span style="font-size: 12pt;">Treat the observability platform as a product — with internal engineering teams as customers — striving for a great self-service experience, clear documentation, and intuitive interfaces</span></li> <li style="font-size: 12pt;"><span style="font-size: 12pt;">Collaborate closely with distributed engineering teams across Berlin, California, and Australia</span></li> <li style="font-size: 12pt;"><span style="font-size: 12pt;">Mentor and guide engineers on observability principles and practices</span></li> <li style="font-size: 12pt;"><span style="font-size: 12pt;">Contribute to technical design discussions and help shape platform decisions within the team</span></li> </ul> <h2><span style="font-size: 12pt;">What We're Looking For:</span></h2> <ul> <li style="font-size: 12pt;"><span style="font-size: 12pt;">5–6+ years of experience in Platform Engineering, SRE, or DevOps</span></li> <li style="font-size: 12pt;"><span style="font-size: 12pt;">Hands-on experience with <strong>OpenTelemetry</strong>, or strong familiarity with the ecosystem and a genuine eagerness to go deep — instrumentation, collectors, exporters, and pipelines</span></li> <li style="font-size: 12pt;"><span style="font-size: 12pt;">Proven experience building and operating observability platforms (metrics, logging, tracing, alerting)</span></li> <li style="font-size: 12pt;"><span style="font-size: 12pt;">Development experience in one or more of the following: <strong>Go</strong> (preferred), <strong>Java</strong>, <strong>Python</strong></span></li> <li style="font-size: 12pt;"><span style="font-size: 12pt;">Production experience with <strong>Kubernetes</strong> and container-based infrastructure</span></li> <li style="font-size: 12pt;"><span style="font-size: 12pt;">Experience with cloud platforms, particularly <strong>AWS</strong></span></li> <li style="font-size: 12pt;"><span style="font-size: 12pt;">Strong Linux and networking fundamentals</span></li> <li style="font-size: 12pt;"><span style="font-size: 12pt;">Excellent communication skills and ability to work effectively across distributed, cross-timezone teams</span></li> <li style="font-size: 12pt;"><span style="font-size: 12pt;">High degree of autonomy and ownership — you drive things to completion</span></li> </ul> <h2><span style="font-size: 12pt;">Nice to Have:</span></h2> <ul> <li style="font-size: 12pt;"><span style="font-size: 12pt;">Active involvement or contributions in the <strong>OpenTelemetry open source ecosystem</strong> or any other <strong>CNCF</strong> projects</span></li> <li style="font-size: 12pt;"><span style="font-size: 12pt;">Experience with <strong>Datadog</strong> and/or <strong>Grafana</strong> and/or <strong>Splunk</strong> and/or <strong>Cribl</strong></span></li> <li style="font-size: 12pt;"><span style="font-size: 12pt;">Experience with Helm, ArgoCD, and Argo Rollout</span></li> <li style="font-size: 12pt;"><span style="font-size: 12pt;">Infrastructure-as-Code experience (Terraform preferred)</span></li> <li style="font-size: 12pt;"><span style="font-size: 12pt;">Experience building Kubernetes operators and extending the Kubernetes platform</span></li> </ul><div class="content-conclusion"><p class="p1">Please note, Sony Interactive Entertainment conducts background checks at the offer stage for all new employees (which may include criminal background checks for some roles) and will need to process personal information to support these checks.</p> <p class="p1">Please refer to our&nbsp;<a href="https://www.playstation.com/legal/careers-privacy-notice/" target="_blank">Candidate Privacy Notice</a>&nbsp;for more information about what personal information we collect, how we use it, who we share it with, and your data protection rights.</p> <p><strong>Equal Opportunity Statement:</strong></p> <p><em>Sony is an Equal Opportunity Employer. All persons will receive consideration for employment without regard to gender (including gender identity, gender expression and gender reassignment), race (including colour, nationality, ethnic or national origin), religion or belief, marital or civil partnership status, disability, age, sexual orientation, pregnancy, maternity or parental status, trade union membership or membership in any other legally protected category.</em></p> <p><em>We strive to create an inclusive environment, empower employees and embrace diversity. We encourage everyone to respond.&nbsp;</em></p> <p><em>Sony Interactive Entertainment is a Fair Chance employer and qualified applicants with arrest and conviction records will be considered for employment.</em></p> <p>&nbsp;</p></div>