Senior Service Reliability Engineer

The role

This person will lead improvements in reliability and scalability and influence architecture and implementation. They will mentor junior staff and represent SRE in the wider organization.

What you will do

• Taking a leadership role in ongoing improvements in Reliability and Scalability
• Work closely with SRE Management to define KPIs, processes and drive continuous improvement
• Influence the architecture and implementation of solutions within the division
• Mentor more junior SRE staff and enable them for success
• Act as a voice to represent SRE in the wider organisation
• Represent the operational scalability of solutions in the wider division
• Lead small-scale projects from inception to implementation
• Design platform-wide solutions and provide technical leadership during their implementation

Required qualifications

• Minimum of 7+ years working experience in Software Development and/or Linux Systems Administration role
• Strong interpersonal, written and verbal communication skills
• Available to be scheduled in on-call rotation
• Proficient as a Linux Production Systems Engineer, with experience managing large scale Web Services infrastructure
• Development experience in one or more of the following programming languages: Bash, Go, Java, C++, or Rust
• Experience with at least 3 of the following topics: Distributed data storage at scale (Hadoop, Ceph), NoSQL at scale (MongoDB, Redis, Cassandra), Data aggregation technologies (ElasticSearch, Kafka),

Nice to have

• Python
• Software performance analysis and load testing (QA or SDET experience)

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. It is a dynamic technology company and an entertainment leader.