Software Engineer II Data Reliability & Automation (APIs)
Sony Interactive Entertainment Global · United States, San Diego, CA
About this role
**Why Sony Interactive Entertainment?** Sony Interactive Entertainment (SIE) is the company behind the PlayStation brand. As a subsidiary of Sony Group Corporation, we deliver cutting-edge hardware and network services to more than 100 million people, and we’re home to beloved, recognizable intellectual properties (IP). --- **Software Engineer II – Platform Data Reliability & Automation (APIs)** Ready to level up your career? Join PlayStation as a Software Engineer II focused on building reliable, automated infrastructure platforms that power data services used by millions of players worldwide. You’ll work across backend development, Infrastructure as Code, database infrastructure, and operational reliability. You’ll also help develop APIs and agent-assisted experiences that make infrastructure creation and management simpler, safer, and more accessible to engineering teams. --- **Role Overview** Build, automate, and operate scalable data infrastructure across cloud environments. This role blends backend software development with infrastructure automation and operational engineering. You’ll develop Go services, APIs, Terraform modules, and automation for provisioning and managing databases, streaming platforms, and caching services such as Cassandra, Aurora, Aerospike, Kafka, and Redis. You’ll also help enable self-service experiences that translate developer intent into validated infrastructure configurations and provisioning workflows—ensuring capabilities are reliable, secure, observable, and safe to operate at scale. --- **Responsibilities** - Develop and maintain software, APIs, and automation for provisioning and managing database, streaming, and caching infrastructure. - Build and maintain reusable Terraform modules and Infrastructure as Code workflows for cloud, Kubernetes, and data-platform services. - Develop backend services and platform tooling in Go for infrastructure provisioning, configuration, and lifecycle management. - Automate operational activities such as deployment, configuration, scaling, upgrades, backup, recovery, failover, and decommissioning. - Operate and improve SQL, NoSQL, streaming, and caching platforms at scale (e.g., Cassandra, Aurora, Aerospike, Kafka/MSK, Redis, DynamoDB, ElastiCache). - Improve availability, scalability, performance, and reliability of stateful data services. - Build self-service and agent-assisted experiences that translate developer intent into structured infrastructure specifications and Terraform-based execution plans. - Enhance observability with metrics, logs, traces, dashboards, and actionable alerts. - Participate in on-call rotations and incident response for database, caching, and streaming platform services. - Troubleshoot infrastructure and application issues (performance, capacity, connectivity, replication, storage, resource utilization). - Contribute to root-cause analysis and implement automated/systemic fixes to prevent recurring incidents. - Define and measure SLIs, SLOs, error budgets, and operational health indicators. - Create automated tests for APIs, Terraform modules, infrastructure plans, operational tooling, and failure scenarios. - Collaborate with engineering, platform, security, and operations teams to deliver reliable, scalable data services. - Maintain technical documentation, API specifications, operational playbooks, runbooks, and onboarding materials. - Participate in code reviews, design discussions, capacity planning, and continuous improv
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