Software Engineer II Data Reliability & Automation (APIs)

Why Sony Interactive Entertainment? 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. Software Engineer II – Platform Data Reliability & Automation Ready to level up your career? Join PlayStation as a Software Engineer II focused on developing reliable, automated infrastructure platforms that support data services used by millions of players worldwide.

You’ll work across software 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 We are seeking a Software Engineer II to help build, automate, and operate scalable data infrastructure across cloud environments.

This role combines 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 contribute to enabling self-service experiences that translate developer intent into validated infrastructure configurations and provisioning workflows.

Working alongside senior engineers and platform teams, you’ll help ensure these 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 to support infrastructure provisioning, configuration, and lifecycle management. Automate operational activities such as deployment, configuration, scaling, upgrades, backup, recovery, failover, and decommissioning. Help operate and improve SQL, NoSQL, streaming, and caching platforms at scale, including technologies such as Cassandra, Aurora, Aerospike, Kafka/MSK, Redis, DynamoDB, and ElastiCache.

Contribute to the availability, scalability, performance, and reliability of stateful data services Help build self-service and agent-assisted experiences that translate developer intent into structured infrastructure specifications and Terraform-based execution plans. Build and enhance observability using metrics, logs, traces, dashboards, and actionable alerts. Participate in on-call rotations and incident response for database, caching, streaming, and supporting platform services.

Troubleshoot infrastructure and application issues involving database performance, capacity, connectivity, replication, storage, and resource utilization. Contribute to root-cause analysis and implement automated or systemic fixes that prevent recurring incidents. Help define and measure SLIs, SLOs, error budgets, and operational health indicators for platform services. 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 and scalable data services. Maintain technical documentation, API specifications, operational playbooks, runbooks, and onboarding mate