Staff Software Engineer (Network Automation)

Location: Adelaide, Australia

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

• Set technical direction and architectural standards for network automation and infrastructure control platforms.
• Design and build APIs, services, Kubernetes controllers, custom resources, and reconciliation workflows for production infrastructure.
• Develop distributed systems that handle eventual consistency, at-least-once delivery, concurrent writes, partial failures, idempotency, and safe recovery.
• Build multi-tenant infrastructure platforms with tenant isolation, authorization, policy enforcement, and safe automation boundaries.
• Improve testing, observability, CI gates, deployment safety, migrations, and modernization of existing automation systems.
• Lead technical reviews and cross-functional alignment while mentoring engineers and raising software engineering standards.

Requirements

• Deep expertise in a backend language such as Python, Go, Rust, or Java, including asynchronous concurrency, static typing, data modelling, API development, packaging, and tooling.
• Strong experience building Kubernetes controllers or operators with custom resources and reconciliation patterns.
• Strong experience with event-driven distributed systems, eventual consistency, at-least-once delivery, idempotency, optimistic concurrency, and partial-failure handling.
• Experience designing self-service multi-tenant platforms, stable APIs, schemas, versioning, and schema evolution.
• Demonstrated technical leadership across teams, including architectural design, stakeholder alignment, mentoring, and delivery of complex infrastructure systems to production.
• Role location: Adelaide, Australia.

Nice to have

• Networking fundamentals including BGP, IP fabrics, VXLAN, EVPN, and L3VPN.
• Working knowledge of Go for contributing to adjacent services and controllers.
• Experience with testing and observability strategies for infrastructure automation that cannot be fully reproduced in CI.
• Experience with graph databases or infrastructure source-of-truth systems.

Culture & Benefits

• Work on infrastructure supporting hirify.global Network across more than 40 interconnection locations and 20+ data centres worldwide.
• Influence reusable engineering patterns across multiple network domains and services.
• Collaborate with software engineering, networking, operations, and architecture teams.
• Background checks are conducted at the offer stage for new employees.
• Sony Interactive Entertainment is an equal opportunity and fair chance employer committed to an inclusive environment.