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Job Summary
Join PlayStation as a Senior Platform Engineer to lead the migration to OpenTelemetry, shaping the future of observability for millions of players globally. This high-impact role offers autonomy and the chance to work with cutting-edge technologies in a distributed team.
About this job
As a Senior Platform Engineer, you will join the Platform Engineering team within Sony Interactive Entertainment's Gaming, Developer & Future Technology Group. This high-impact, hands-on role focuses on migrating the observability stack to OpenTelemetry, reducing vendor lock-in, and evolving the stack. You will work autonomously with a distributed team to deliver a world-class platform experience.
Requirements
- 5–6+ years of experience in Platform Engineering, SRE, or DevOps
- Hands-on experience with OpenTelemetry, or strong familiarity with the ecosystem (instrumentation, collectors, exporters, 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
- Active involvement or contributions in the OpenTelemetry open source ecosystem or any other CNCF projects (Nice to Have)
- Experience with Datadog and/or Grafana and/or Splunk and/or Cribl (Nice to Have)
- Experience with Helm, ArgoCD, and Argo Rollout (Nice to Have)
- Infrastructure-as-Code experience (Terraform preferred) (Nice to Have)
- Experience building Kubernetes operators and extending the Kubernetes platform (Nice to Have)
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