PlayStation Global
Gaming
SeniorPlatformEngineer
“Senior Platform Engineer at PlayStation Global. Skills: OpenTelemetry, Observability platforms, Kubernetes, Cloud platforms. Adopt OpenTelemetry company-wide. Reduce vendor lock-in”
Industry & Context.
What They're Looking For.
Must Have
5–6+ years of experience in Platform Engineering, SRE, or DevOps, Hands-on experience with OpenTelemetry, or familiarity with the ecosystem and a genuine eagerness to go deep — instrumentation, collectors, exporters, and pipelines, Proven experience building and operating observability platforms (metrics, logging, tracing, alerting), Development experience in one or more of the following: Go (preferred), Java, Python, Production experience with Kubernetes and container-based infrastructure, Experience with cloud platforms, particularly AWS, Linux and networking fundamentals, Excellent communication skills and ability to work effectively across distributed, cross-timezone teams, High degree of autonomy and ownership — you drive things to completion
Nice to Have
Active involvement or contributions in the OpenTelemetry open source ecosystem or any other CNCF projects, Experience with Datadog and/or Grafana and/or Splunk and/or Cribl, Experience with Helm, ArgoCD, and Argo Rollout, Infrastructure-as-Code experience (Terraform preferred), Experience building Kubernetes operators and extending the Kubernetes platform
What You'll Do.
Adopt OpenTelemetry company-wide
Reduce vendor lock-in
Design observability platform
Build observability platform
Operate observability platform
Establish observability best practices
Promote observability standards
Develop tooling for observability
Automate observability platform
Treat platform as product
Mentor engineers on observability
Guide engineers on observability
Contribute to technical design
Shape platform decisions
How You'll Work.
Team & Collaboration
Work with distributed engineering teams; Collaborate across timezones; Work effectively across teams
Communication Scope
Excellent communication skills
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