Software Engineer II - DevOps

Why Play Station?

Play Station isn’t just the Best Place to Play — it’s also the Best Place to Work. Today, we’re recognized as a global leader in entertainment producing The Play Station family of products and services including Play Station®5, Play Station®4, Play Station®VR, Play Station®Plus, acclaimed Play Station software titles from Play Station Studios, and more.

Play Station also strives to create an inclusive environment that empowers employees and embraces diversity. We welcome and encourage everyone who has a passion and curiosity for innovation, technology, and play to explore our open positions and join our growing global team.

The Play Station brand falls under Sony Interactive Entertainment, a wholly‑owned subsidiary of Sony Group Corporation.

As part of the Foundational Systems and Experiences Engineering (FSEE) organization, this role contributes directly to the infrastructure, tooling, and automation that empower Play Station developers worldwide. Our team builds and maintains the systems that support build, test, and release workflows across console, mobile, web, and PC platforms. The ideal candidate is passionate about developer productivity, highly collaborative, and motivated by solving complex technical problems that enable development teams to deliver exceptional experiences to Play Station users.

This position offers the opportunity to work at global scale, partnering with engineering, QA, operations, and platform teams to enhance delivery pipelines, streamline development processes, and ensure the reliability, security, and scalability of the platforms that power the Play Station ecosystem.

• Design, develop, and maintain software build and release pipelines that support delivery across Play Station consoles, Web, Mobile, and PC platforms.
• Automate provisioning, configuration, and lifecycle management of cloud infrastructure using Infrastructure‑as‑Code (IaC) to enable consistent, secure, and scalable deployments.
• Build internal tools and applications that streamline development workflows and accelerate software delivery.
• Engage closely with dependent engineering, QA, and operations teams to understand requirements, remove obstacles, and ensure smooth end‑to‑end delivery.
• Monitor and analyze telemetry (metrics, logs, traces) to detect issues, identify improvement opportunities, and drive operational excellence across CI/CD systems and tools.
• Develop dashboards and visualizations to communicate system performance, reliability, and pipeline health.
• Identify and resolve CI/CD challenges proactively, providing support to development teams and continually improving system resilience.
• Produce clear, high‑quality documentation including tutorials, how‑to guides, references, and conceptual explanations for infrastructure, pipelines, and internally developed tools.
• Collaborate with globally distributed team members and developers across all SIE offices to design and deliver scalable Play Station software experiences.
• Work across diverse web technology stacks and environments, adapting solutions to multiple platforms and application architectures.

• Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Engineering, or a related field, or equivalent experience.
• Strong understanding of object‑oriented programming principles.
• Knowledge of fundamental data structures and algorithms.
• Experience with Git and Git Hub for source control and workflow management.
• Experience developing with JavaScript and/or Type Script.
• Familiarity with modern web technologies, package managers, and frameworks.
• Experience with container orchestration (Docker, Kubernetes).
• Comfort working within Linux environments and command‑line tooling.
• Experience with CI/CD systems such as Jenkins or Git Hub Actions.
• Excellent communication, collaboration, and problem‑solving abilities.

• Experience integrating or developing against RESTful APIs.
• Understanding of Linux and Windows operating system fundamentals.
• Familiarity with observability platforms (Grafana, Prometheus, Loki, etc.).
• Experience working with AWS services (e.g., EC2, EKS, S3, RDS, etc.).
• Hands‑on experience…