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San Diego, California, United States
Hybrid
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.
Ready to level up your career? Join PlayStation as a Software Engineer II focused on developing reliable, automated infrastructure platforms that support data services used by millions of players worldwide.
You’ll work across software development, Infrastructure as Code, database infrastructure, and operational reliability. You’ll also help develop APIs and agent-assisted experiences that make infrastructure creation and management simpler, safer, and more accessible to engineering teams.
We are seeking a Software Engineer II to help build, automate, and operate scalable data infrastructure across cloud environments.
This role combines backend software development with infrastructure automation and operational engineering. You’ll develop Go services, APIs, Terraform modules, and automation for provisioning and managing databases, streaming platforms, and caching services such as Cassandra, Aurora, Aerospike, Kafka, and Redis.
You’ll also contribute to enabling self-service experiences that translate developer intent into validated infrastructure configurations and provisioning workflows. Working alongside senior engineers and platform teams, you’ll help ensure these capabilities are reliable, secure, observable, and safe to operate at scale.
At SIE, we consider several factors when setting each role’s base pay range, including the competitive benchmarking data for the market and geographic location.
Please note that the base pay range may vary in line with our hybrid working policy and individual base pay will be determined based on job-related factors which may include knowledge, skills, experience, and location.
In addition, this role is eligible for SIE’s top-tier benefits package that includes medical, dental, vision, matching 401(k), paid time off, wellness program and coveted employee discounts for Sony products. This role also may be eligible for a bonus package. Click here to learn more.
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Equal Opportunity Statement:
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