Software Systems Integration Engineer
$150k - $225k USD
Why PlayStation?
PlayStation 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 PlayStation family of products and services including PlayStation®5, PlayStation®4, PlayStation®VR, PlayStation®Plus, acclaimed PlayStation software titles from PlayStation Studios, and more.
PlayStation 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 PlayStation brand falls under Sony Interactive Entertainment, a wholly-owned subsidiary of Sony Group Corporation.
About the Team
The Engineering Enablement organization builds the tools, platforms, and experiences that empower PlayStation engineers to deliver world-class software with speed, reliability, and joy. Our Platform Integration team sits at the intersection of application development and infrastructure, creating the abstractions, APIs, and automation that make cloud and on-prem systems simple and intuitive for our developers.
We are looking for an engineer passionate about developer experience, platform engineering, and building polished internal products. You will work across the Kubernetes platform, application networking with service mesh and API gateways, and emerging AI capabilities to create seamless, scalable, and delightful development workflows for thousands of engineers across SIE.
What You’ll Do
- Build a developer-centric ecosystem by designing internal developer experience tools, workflows, and user-focused abstractions that simplify how teams interact with infrastructure.
- Integrate developer experiences with cloud and on-prem hosting platforms, ensuring consistent workflows and intuitive APIs regardless of environment.
- Own the intake and refinement of developer feature requests, translating requirements into platform capabilities and incorporating them into the experience ecosystem.
- Develop integration solutions for service mesh and API gateways, enabling smooth connectivity, traffic routing, and observability for applications.
- Design and implement Kubernetes Operators, CRDs, and platform APIs to expose infrastructure features through clean, declarative interfaces.
- Leverage AI tools and capabilities to accelerate solution development and craft delightful, intelligent developer workflows.
- Collaborate with partner teams across infrastructure, security, and application engineering to ensure that platform abstractions align with organizational needs.
- Champion developer experience excellence, gathering feedback, iterating quickly, and advocating for usability, clarity, and performance in all platform tooling.
What We’re Looking For
- Strong experience building or supporting developer experience platforms, internal tools, or platform engineering solutions.
- Proficiency with Kubernetes (Operators, CRDs, controllers, RBAC, networking) and related cloud-native technologies.
- Experience integrating applications with service mesh and API gateways.
- Solid programming skills in languages such as Go, Python, or Rust.
- Familiarity with cloud platforms (AWS, GCP, or Azure) and hybrid hosting environments.
- A user-centric mindset and ability to translate developer needs into well-designed solutions.
- Experience using AI tools to enhance engineering workflows is a strong plus.
- Excellent communication skills and a collaborative approach.
- Bachelor’s degree or equivalent.
Bonus Qualifications
- Experience designing scalable internal platforms used by hundreds or thousands of developers.
- Application network traffic routing with service mesh and API gateways.
- Background in SRE, DevOps, or infrastructure automation.
- Contributions to open-source projects in the Kubernetes or cloud-native ecosystem.
- Familiarity with GitOps patterns and operational excellence practices.
Why Join Us
At PlayStation, you’ll help build foundational engineering systems that power one of the world’s most iconic entertainment platforms. You’ll shape tools used by engineers across the company, influence how services are developed and deployed, and create beautifully simple experiences that make engineering joyful and frictionless.
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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.
The estimated base pay range for this role is listed below.
$150,100—$225,100 USD
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