Role overview:

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

What We’re Looking For:

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

Nice to Have:

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

Sony is an Equal Opportunity Employer. All persons will receive consideration for employment without regard to gender (including gender identity, gender expression and gender reassignment), race (including colour, nationality, ethnic or national origin), religion or belief, marital or civil partnership status, disability, age, sexual orientation, pregnancy, maternity or parental status, trade union membership or membership in any other legally protected category.

We strive to create an inclusive environment, empower employees and embrace diversity. We encourage everyone to respond.

Sony Interactive Entertainment is a Fair Chance employer and qualified applicants with arrest and conviction records will be considered for employment.

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