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