Senior Platform Engineer

Sony Interactive Entertainment

Berlin, Germany
On-site
5-6+ years platform engineering experience
Hands-on opentelemetry implementation
Build and operate observability platforms
The role involves leading a strategic company-wide initiative to migrate the observability stack to OpenTelemetry and reduce vendor lock-in

Job Summary

  • The role involves leading a strategic company-wide initiative to migrate the observability stack to OpenTelemetry and reduce vendor lock-in.
  • You will design, build, and operate a centralized observability platform covering metrics, logs, traces, alerting, and profiling for millions of players.
  • This high-impact position requires working autonomously alongside distributed engineering teams in Berlin, California, and Australia.

Matching Summary

The role involves leading a strategic company-wide initiative to migrate the observability stack to OpenTelemetry and reduce vendor lock-in.

Skills & Requirements

Must-have

  • 5-6+ years Platform Engineering experience
  • Hands-on OpenTelemetry implementation
  • Build and operate observability platforms
  • Go Java or Python development skills
  • Kubernetes and container infrastructure
  • AWS cloud platform experience

Nice-to-have

  • OpenTelemetry open source contributions
  • Experience with Datadog Grafana Splunk
  • Helm ArgoCD and Argo Rollout usage
  • Terraform Infrastructure-as-Code expertise
  • Kubernetes operator development experience

Key Requirements

  • 5-6+ years experience in Platform Engineering SRE or DevOps
  • Production experience with Kubernetes and containers
  • Strong Linux and networking fundamentals

Work Rights

Not specified

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