Site Reliability Engineer
Posted 9 Apr 2026
Advertised as “Site Reliability Engineer II”
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- Level
- II
- Expected experience
- 5+ yrs
- Management level
- Individual contributor
- Employment
- Hybrid
No salary listed for this role.
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.
Service Reliability Engineer
Do you want to use transformative technologies to achieve greater scalability and efficiency? Do you want a career that combines your engineering skills and your passion for video gaming? Are you fascinated by the technologies behind the Internet and cloud computing? If so, join us!
As a part of Sony Computer Entertainment, the Gaming, Developer, and Future Technology group (GDFT) is leading the cloud gaming revolution, putting console-quality video games on any device, from TVs to consoles to mobile devices and beyond. Our SREs focus on three main things: overall ownership of production, production code quality, and deployments. The successful candidate will be self-directed and able to participate in the way we make decisions at different levels.
We expect our SREs to have opinions on the state of our service, and provide critical feedback during different phases of the operational lifecycle. We are engaged throughout the S/W development lifecycle, ensuring operational readiness and stability.
Requirements
- Minimum of 5+ years working experience in Software Development and/or Linux Systems Administration role.
- Strong written and verbal communication skills; able to work effectively with engineers and stakeholders.
- Willingness to participate in an on-call rotation and lead/assist in incident response
Skills & Knowledge
- 5+ years of experience in software development and/or Linux systems administration in production environments.
- BS in Computer Science or equivalent experience required.
- 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.