Senior Platform Engineer

<div class="content-intro"><p><strong>Why Sony Interactive Entertainment?</strong></p> <p>Sony Interactive Entertainment isn’t just the Best Place to Play — it’s also the Best Place to Work. Sony Interactive Entertainment (SIE) is the company behind the PlayStation brand. As a subsidiary of Sony Group Corporation, we’re part of a proud legacy of innovation and excellence. SIE is a dynamic technology company, delivering cutting-edge hardware and network services to more than 100 million people and an entertainment leader, home to some of the most beloved and recognizable intellectual properties (IP) in the world. Our role at SIE is to create and nurture the experiences under the PlayStation brand, a name synonymous with entertainment excellence and creativity.</p></div><h2><span style="font-size: 12pt;">Role overview:</span></h2> <p><span style="font-size: 12pt;">As part of Sony Interactive Entertainment's Gaming, Developer & Future Technology Group (GDFT), our Platform Engineering team plays a significant role in delivering a world-class platform experience to millions of players around the globe.</span></p> <p><span style="font-size: 12pt;">We are looking for a <strong>Senior Platform Engineer</strong> with a strong focus on observability to join our Berlin team. This is a high-impact, hands-on role at the heart of a strategic company-wide initiative: migrating our observability stack to <strong>OpenTelemetry</strong>, reducing vendor lock-in across our current tooling and giving us the flexibility to evolve our stack on our own terms.</span></p> <p><span style="font-size: 12pt;">You will be a key executor of this migration strategy, working with a high degree of autonomy alongside a team based in Berlin, California, and Australia. You are someone who gets things done — comfortable making sound technical decisions and writing code to solve problems when needed.</span></p> <h2><span style="font-size: 12pt;">What You'll Be Doing:</span></h2> <ul> <li style="font-size: 12pt;"><span style="font-size: 12pt;">Play a key hands-on role in the company-wide adoption of OpenTelemetry, implementing and contributing to the reduction of vendor lock-in across our current observability tooling (Datadog, Grafana, and bespoke solutions)</span></li> <li style="font-size: 12pt;"><span style="font-size: 12pt;">Design, build, and operate a centralized observability platform covering metrics, logs, traces, alerting, and profiling</span></li> <li style="font-size: 12pt;"><span style="font-size: 12pt;">Establish and promote observability best practices and standards across e