Platform Engineer - Networking

Overview

Play Station, a subsidiary of Sony Interactive Entertainment (SIE), is a dynamic technology company delivering cutting‑edge hardware and network services to more than 100 million people. The team builds worldwide online services that need low‑latency, secure, and reliable client‑server communication for millions of users and services.

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.
• Deploy and manage container‑based routing and networking components on Kubernetes, supporting east‑west service connectivity within and across clusters, including service‑mesh‑based solutions.
• Collaborate 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, is required. You should have hands‑on experience operating application gateways, proxies, or traffic management platforms and managing Kubernetes‑based systems in production environments. A Bachelor’s or Master’s degree in Computer Science or a related field, or equivalent practical experience, is preferred.

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

Proven experience integrating Kong to provide enterprise middleware application routing implementations. Experience with platforms that rely on configuration, control planes, or policy systems, familiarity with DNS‑based service discovery and naming strategies, and 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 such as Git Ops or equivalent experience, Infrastructure as Code, and automated policy enforcement. Knowledge of fundamental networking technologies such as BGP, eBPF, or overlay networking is an advantage.

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.

Compensation and Benefits

The estimated base pay range for this role is $150,100—$225,100 USD. This role is also eligible for SIE’s top‑tier benefits package that includes medical, dental, vision, matching 401(k), paid time off, wellness program, and employee discounts for Sony products. Additionally, the role may be eligible for a bonus package.

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Equal Opportunity Statement

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