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Platform Engineer - Application Networking
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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.
PlayStation builds worldwide online services that need low-latency, secure, and reliable client–server communication for millions of users and services. We want an engineer committed to platform development, skilled in networking, application routing, and platform abstractions who enjoys converting architectural plans into stable, repeatable systems.
This role centers on crafting and deploying collaborative application routing and networking platforms. These platforms use Kubernetes along with modern gateway and service mesh technologies. They support the exchange of information both from client to service and between services across PlayStation’s hybrid infrastructure.
Responsibilities
In your role as a Platform Engineer at PlayStation, you will:
- Compose, develop, and maintain common application routing frameworks that facilitate communication spanning client requests to service responses as well as between services.
- Develop and improve routing capabilities through the Kong ecosystem, including Kong API Gateway, Kong Ingress Controller, and Kong Konnect.
- Enable safe traffic management approaches that support scalability, resilience, and controlled change.
Platforms for managing application routing
- Compose, build, and operate shared systems for managing application routing that enable client-to-service and service-to-service communication.
- Build and improve routing features with the Kong suite of tools (Kong API Gateway, Kong Ingress Controller, Kong Konnect).
- Facilitate secure traffic management methods that promote scalability, resilience, and regulated change.
Kubernetes & Service Connectivity
- Deploy and manage container-based routing and networking components on Kubernetes.
- Support east–west service connectivity within and across clusters, including service mesh-based solutions.
- Partner with Kubernetes platform teams to ensure routing infrastructure is reliable, scalable, and operable.
Platform Reliability & Enablement
- Increase the reliability, performance, and observability of application routing platforms.
- Integrate routing platforms into CI/CD and GitOps workflows.
- Provide clear conventions, automation, and documentation to enable application teams to adopt the platform effectively.
Requirements
- Strong background in networking and distributed systems, particularly client/server communication models.
- Hands-on experience operating application gateways, proxies, or traffic management platforms.
- Experience managing Kubernetes-based systems in production environments.
- Bachelor’s or Master’s degree in Computer Science or a related field, or equivalent practical experience.
Networking & Protocols
Solid understanding of:
- HTTP, HTTP/2, HTTP/3, gRPC
- TCP and UDP traffic patterns
TCP and UDP traffic patterns
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Experience with L4/L7 routing concepts, load balancing, and traffic policy.
Platform & Systems
- Proven experience integrating Kong to provide enterprise middleware application routing implementations.
- Experience working with platforms that rely on configuration, control planes, or policy systems.
- Familiarity with DNS-based service discovery and naming strategies.
- Comfort working alongside infrastructure primitives such as networks, load balancers, and firewalls.
Skills & Knowledge
- Experience supporting globally distributed systems across regions, providers, and environments.
- Knowledge of gateway architectures, service mesh concepts, and internal service connectivity.
- Familiarity with modern platform practices: GitOps or equivalent experience, Infrastructure as Code, Automated policy enforcement.
- Knowledge of fundamental networking technologies such as BGP, eBPF, or overlay networking is an advantage.
Additional Attributes
- Strong communicator who can collaborate effectively across architecture, platform, and application teams.
- Comfortable working with distributed teams across multiple time zones.
- Product-minded, with a focus on developer experience, platform reliability, and adoption.
- Self-starter with a strong sense of ownership and a bias toward documentation and knowledge sharing.
- Experience contributing to or collaborating on open-source software is a plus.
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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.
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.
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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.
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