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Service Reliability Engineer

Sony Interactive Entertainment

Australia, Adelaide · AUS-Adelaide-Hindmarsh · 5+ years experience · Posted Sep 29, 2026

At a glance

Experience
5+ years experience
Location
Australia, Adelaide · AUS-Adelaide-Hindmarsh

About the role

  • Our Site Reliability Engineering team plays a significant role in delivering on the promise of a great cloud gaming experience to our customers by influencing design and operational decisions towards the overall stability of the gaming service.
  • Our SREs focus on three main things: overall ownership of production, production code quality, and deployments.

Responsibilities

  • Lead team technical discussions, especially around ongoing improvements in Reliability and Scalability
  • Be involved in creating High Level Designs (HLDs) for new products and platforms
  • Mentor junior SRE staff and enable them for success
  • Lead incident response and post-mortem activities within your assigned service team
  • Work with other Engineers in a cross-functional team to prioritise reliability improvements to address technical debt and toil
  • Contribute to code to improve reliability
  • Implement automation to reduce ongoing toil

Requirements

  • Minimum of 5+ years working experience in Software Development and/or Linux Systems Administration role.
  • Strong interpersonal, written and verbal communication skills.
  • Available to be scheduled in on-call rotation.
  • Proficient as a Linux Production Systems Engineer, with experience managing large scale Web Services infrastructure.
  • Development experience in one or more programming languages including Python, Bash, Go, Java, C++, or Rust.
  • Experience with at least 3 specified infrastructure, data, scaling, monitoring, or configuration management topics.

Preferred qualifications

  • Python programming language
  • S/W Performance analysis and load testing (QA or SDET experience: a plus)

Skills

  • Python
  • Bash
  • Go
  • Java
  • C++
  • Rust
  • Hadoop
  • Ceph
  • MongoDB
  • Redis
  • Cassandra
  • ElasticSearch
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  • Kafka
  • PostgreSQL
  • MySQL

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Service Reliability Engineer

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