Site Reliability Engineer II

The role

This person will focus on production ownership, production code quality, and deployments. They will work within the Gaming, Developer, and Future Technology group to support cloud gaming technologies.

What you will do

• Focus on overall ownership of production
• Focus on production code quality
• Focus on deployments
• Provide critical feedback during different phases of the operational lifecycle
• Ensure operational readiness and stability throughout the software development lifecycle
• Participate in an on-call rotation
• Lead or assist in incident response

Required qualifications

• Minimum of 5+ years working experience in Software Development and/or Linux Systems Administration role
• Strong written and verbal communication skills
• Willingness to participate in an on-call rotation and lead/assist in incident response
• 5+ years of experience in software development and/or Linux systems administration in production environments
• BS in Computer Science or equivalent experience
• Hands-on experience with Kong API Gateway or similar enterprise API gateway technologies
• Operate and troubleshoot the gateway in production: routing/services, plugins, TLS/cert management, authn/authz, and performance/latency tuning
• Own lifecycle and reliability practices: upgrades and configuration changes (IaC/GitOps), safe rollouts/rollback, monitoring, etc.
• Hands-on experience with Service Mesh technologies such as Istio, Linkerd or Kuma
• Strong understanding of traffic management concepts, including routing, retries, timeouts, circuit breaking and traffic shifting (canary, blue/green)
• Familiarity with mTLS, service-to-service communication, and zero-trust networking principles
• Experience troubleshooting service mesh-related issues, including latency, connectivity, and policy misconfigurations

Nice to have

• Python
• Distributed data storage at scale (Ceph, Rook)
• NoSQL at scale (MongoDB clusters, sharded Redis, Cassandra)
• Data Aggregation technologies (ElasticSearch, Kafka)
• Scaling and running traditional RDBMS (PostgreSQL, MySQL) with High Availability
• Observability and incident management: Prometheus, Grafana, alerting/on-call workflows, post-incident review
• Container orchestration (Kubernetes, Rancher) at scale
• Release Engineering (Package management and distribution at scale)
• S/W Performance analysis and load testing (QA or SDET experience: a plus)

Benefits

• medical
• dental
• vision
• matching 401(k)
• paid time off
• wellness program
• employee discounts for Sony products
• possible bonus package

Before you apply

• Sony Interactive Entertainment conducts background checks at the offer stage for all new employees

About the company

Sony Interactive Entertainment (SIE) is the company behind the PlayStation brand and a subsidiary of Sony Group Corporation. It is a dynamic technology company and an entertainment leader.