Software Engineer II Data Reliability & Automation (APIs)

Location: United States, San Diego, CA

Salary: $150,100–$225,100 USD per year

Company

hirify.global is the entertainment and technology brand of Sony Interactive Entertainment, delivering hardware, network services, and interactive entertainment experiences to more than 100 million people.

What you will do

• Develop Go services, APIs, platform tooling, and automation for provisioning and managing databases, streaming platforms, and caching infrastructure.
• Build reusable Terraform modules and Infrastructure as Code workflows for cloud, Kubernetes, and data-platform services.
• Automate deployment, configuration, scaling, upgrades, backup, recovery, failover, and decommissioning of stateful systems.
• Operate and improve SQL, NoSQL, streaming, and caching platforms including Cassandra, Aurora, Aerospike, Kafka, Redis, DynamoDB, and ElastiCache.
• Build self-service and agent-assisted infrastructure workflows, observability, automated tests, and operational tooling.
• Participate in on-call rotations, incident response, root-cause analysis, design reviews, capacity planning, and cross-functional delivery.

Requirements

• Bachelor’s or Master’s degree in Computer Science or a related field, or equivalent practical experience.
• At least 3 years of experience in software engineering, database reliability, site reliability, platform engineering, or infrastructure automation.
• Production experience developing backend software or infrastructure tooling in Go and using Terraform.
• Experience designing, validating, testing, and versioning APIs.
• Knowledge of distributed systems, databases, cloud infrastructure, Kubernetes, Linux, networking, storage, observability, and automated testing.
• Role location: United States, San Diego, California. The position is subject to background checks at the offer stage.

Nice to have

• Experience building internal developer platforms, self-service infrastructure, or infrastructure APIs.
• Experience using AI, machine learning, or generative AI for infrastructure automation, incident management, observability, or developer productivity.
• Familiarity with agent-assisted workflows, structured outputs, tool calling, approval controls, or policy-based infrastructure automation.
• AWS, GCP, Kubernetes, Terraform, database, or streaming-platform certifications.

Culture & Benefits

• Medical, dental, and vision coverage.
• Matching 401(k), paid time off, and a wellness program.
• Employee discounts on Sony products.
• Potential eligibility for a bonus package.
• Inclusive equal-opportunity and fair-chance employment practices.