Site Reliability Engineer II

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Role Overview

Sonyinteractiveentertainmentglobal is hiring a mid-level Site Reliability Engineer II. This is a full-time role in United States, Aliso Viejo. Part of Sonyinteractiveentertainmentglobal's Brand hiring, posted today. applications are still in the early window, before most candidates have applied. Full responsibilities, required qualifications, and the apply link are listed in the description below.

Salary Context

Salary is not disclosed in this posting. Market median for Mid-level Brand roles is $70k-$85k (based on 44 comparable listings). Many employers share specifics during the interview process or after an initial screen.

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Job description

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.
Hands-on experience with Service Mesh technologies such as Istio, Linkerd or Kuma.
Strong understanding of traffic management concepts, including routing, retries, timeouts, circuit breaking and traffic shifting (canary, blue/green)
Familiarity with mTLS, service-to-service communication, and zero-trust networking principles
Experience troubleshooting service mesh-related issues, including latency, connectivity, and policy misconfigurations
Development experience in one or more of the following programming languages:
- Python (preferred)
- Bash, Go, Java, C++, or Rust

In addition, experience with:

Distributed data storage at scale (Ceph, Rook)
NoSQL at scale (MongoDB clusters, sharded Redis, Cassandra)
Data Aggregation technologies. (ElasticSearch, Kafka)
Scaling and running traditional RDBMS (PostgreSQL, MySQL) with High Availability
Observability and incident management: Prometheus, Grafana, alerting/on-call workflows, post-incident review.
Container orchestration (Kubernetes, Rancher) at scale
Release Engineering (Package management and distribution at scale)
S/W Performance analysis and load testing (QA or SDET experience: a plus)

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.

$145,700—$218,500 USD

Please note, Sony Interactive Entertainment conducts background checks at the offer stage for all new employees (which may include criminal background checks for some roles) and will need to process personal information to support these checks.

Please refer to our Candidate Privacy Notice for more information about what personal information we collect, how we use it, who we share it with, and your data protection rights.

Equal Opportunity Statement:

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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This position is based in United States, Aliso Viejo. Sonyinteractiveentertainmentglobal has not indicated remote or hybrid options for this role, so candidates should plan for on-site work.

What does a Site Reliability Engineer II at Sonyinteractiveentertainmentglobal earn?

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When was the Site Reliability Engineer II role at Sonyinteractiveentertainmentglobal posted?

This role was posted on July 9, 2026 (today). It's still listed as actively hiring; we re-confirm openings against the source system multiple times per day and remove closed roles.

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