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.
As part of Sony Interactive Entertainment's Gaming, Developer & 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.
We are looking for a Senior Platform Engineer 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 OpenTelemetry, reducing vendor lock-in across our current tooling and giving us the flexibility to evolve our stack on our own terms.
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.
What You'll Be Doing:- 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)
- Design, build, and operate a centralized observability platform covering metrics, logs, traces, alerting, and profiling
- Establish and promote observability best practices and standards across engineering teams
- Develop tooling and automation directly tied to the observability platform
- 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
- Collaborate closely with distributed engineering teams across Berlin, California, and Australia
- Mentor and guide engineers on observability principles and practices
- Contribute to technical design discussions and help shape platform decisions within the team
- 5–6+ years of experience in Platform Engineering, SRE, or DevOps
- Hands-on experience with OpenTelemetry, or strong familiarity with the ecosystem and a genuine eagerness to go deep — instrumentation, collectors, exporters, and pipelines
- Proven experience building and operating observability platforms (metrics, logging, tracing, alerting)
- Development experience in one or more of the following: Go (preferred), Java, Python
- Production experience with Kubernetes and container-based infrastructure
- Experience with cloud platforms, particularly AWS
- Strong Linux and networking fundamentals
- Excellent communication skills and ability to work effectively across distributed, cross-timezone teams
- High degree of autonomy and ownership — you drive things to completion
- Active involvement or contributions in the OpenTelemetry open source ecosystem or any other CNCF projects
- Experience with Datadog and/or Grafana and/or Splunk and/or Cribl
- Experience with Helm, ArgoCD, and Argo Rollout
- Infrastructure-as-Code experience (Terraform preferred)
- Experience building Kubernetes operators and extending the Kubernetes platform
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Skills Required
- 5-6+ years of experience in Platform Engineering, SRE, or DevOps
- Hands-on experience with OpenTelemetry or familiarity with the ecosystem
- Proven experience building and operating observability platforms
- Development experience in Go, Java, or Python
- Production experience with Kubernetes and container-based infrastructure
- Experience with cloud platforms, particularly AWS
- Strong Linux and networking fundamentals
- Ability to work effectively across distributed teams
- High degree of autonomy and ownership
PlayStation Compensation & Benefits Highlights
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Healthcare Strength — The package includes medical, dental, vision, prescription coverage, mental wellbeing programs, disability, and life insurance. Feedback suggests coverage breadth is a consistent strength that helps anchor overall comp satisfaction.
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Retirement Support — U.S. offerings include a 401(k) with a company match along with student‑loan repayment and a college‑savings plan match. These financial supports are positioned as strong additions to total compensation.
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Parental & Family Support — Offerings include paid parental and family‑care leave, fertility and family‑forming support, backup care, and child developmental resources. Feedback suggests these programs are valued and contribute to a well‑rounded package.
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What We Do
PlayStation has been at the forefront of interactive and digital entertainment since the debut of our first console in 1994. Our products delight millions across the world through incredible games, cutting edge experiences and access to many types of media. This commitment to amazing our fans is at the core of who we are and one we share with Sony Corporation, internationally known as a leader in music, movies and consumer electronics. We can only achieve this goal by welcoming talented people and empowering them to do their best work. From game developers to data scientists, software engineers to cybersecurity experts, marketing to accounting and finance professionals, we’re always looking for talented people who share a passion for creating and our commitment to delivering amazement.
