Senior Platform Engineer, PlayStation

• You are someone who gets things done — comfortable making sound technical decisions and writing code to solve problems when needed
• 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

Desirable

• 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
• 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