PlayStation Global

Gaming

SeniorPlatformEngineer

Berlin, Germany
The Brief

“Senior Platform Engineer at PlayStation Global. Skills: OpenTelemetry, Observability platforms, Kubernetes, Cloud platforms. Adopt OpenTelemetry company-wide. Reduce vendor lock-in”

Industry & Context.

Gaming

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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