Platform Engineer - Networking

Why Play Station?

Play Station isn’t just the Best Place to Play — it’s also the Best Place to Work. Today, we’re recognized as a global leader in entertainment producing The Play Station family of products and services including Play Station®5, Play Station®4, Play Station®VR, Play Station®Plus, acclaimed Play Station software titles from Play Station Studios, and more.

Play Station also strives to create an inclusive environment that empowers employees and embraces diversity. We welcome and encourage everyone who has a passion and curiosity for innovation, technology, and play to explore our open positions and join our growing global team.

The Play Station brand falls under Sony Interactive Entertainment, a wholly‑owned subsidiary of Sony Group Corporation.

Play Station 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 Play Station’s hybrid infrastructure.

In your role as a Platform Engineer at Play Station, 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.

• 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.

• 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.

• Increase the reliability, performance, and observability of application routing platforms.
• Integrate routing platforms into CI/CD and Git Ops workflows.
• Provide clear conventions, automation, and documentation to enable application teams to adopt the platform effectively.

• 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.

• Solid understanding of HTTP, HTTP/2, HTTP/3, gRPC, TCP, and UDP traffic patterns.
• Experience with L4/L7 routing concepts, load balancing, and traffic policy.

• 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.

• 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:
  Git Ops or equivalent experience, Infrastructure as Code,…