Staff Software Engineer (Network Automation)

Location: Germany, Berlin

Company

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

What you will do

• Provide technical leadership and architectural direction for network automation and infrastructure control platforms.
• Design and build APIs, services, Kubernetes controllers, custom resources, and reconciliation workflows for production infrastructure.
• Develop distributed workflows 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.
• Establish testing, observability, CI, deployment, migration, and modernization practices for infrastructure automation.
• Drive technical alignment across engineering, networking, operations, and architecture teams while mentoring engineers and leading design reviews.

Requirements

• Deep expertise in a backend language such as Python, Go, Rust, or Java, including asynchronous concurrency, static typing, data modelling, validation, 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 with tenant isolation, policy, and access control.
• Strong API and schema design skills, including versioning and schema evolution.
• Demonstrated technical leadership across team boundaries, including architecture, stakeholder alignment, mentoring, and delivering reliable systems for large-scale infrastructure.

Nice to have

• Networking fundamentals, especially BGP, IP fabrics, VXLAN/EVPN, and L3VPN.
• Working knowledge of Go for contributing to adjacent services and controllers.
• Experience designing testing and observability strategies for production infrastructure automation.
• Experience with graph databases or infrastructure source-of-truth systems.

Culture & Benefits

• Work on a massive global network spanning more than 40 interconnection locations and over 20 data centres.
• Influence reusable engineering patterns and platforms across multiple network domains and services.
• Inclusive and equal-opportunity workplace with diversity-focused values.
• Background checks are conducted at the offer stage for new employees.