Site Reliability Engineer (Gamedev)

TL;DR

Site Reliability Engineer: Influencing design and operational decisions for the overall stability of a cloud gaming service with an accent on production ownership, code quality, and deployments. Focus on ensuring operational readiness, incident response, and implementing automation to reduce toil in a large-scale web services infrastructure.

Location: Onsite in Adelaide, Australia

Company

hirify.global is a global leader in entertainment, producing the PlayStation family of products and services, including consoles, VR, and acclaimed software titles from PlayStation Studios.

What you will do

• Lead technical discussions focused on reliability and scalability improvements.
• Contribute to High-Level Designs for new products and platforms.
• Mentor junior SRE staff.
• Lead incident response and post-mortem activities within your assigned service team.
• Collaborate with other Engineers in a cross-functional team to prioritize reliability improvements and address technical debt.
• Contribute to code to improve reliability and implement automation to reduce ongoing toil.

Requirements

• Minimum of 5+ years working experience in Software Development and/or Linux Systems Administration role.
• Strong interpersonal, written and verbal communication skills.
• Available to be scheduled in on-call rotation.
• Proficient as a Linux Production Systems Engineer, with experience managing large scale Web Services infrastructure.
• Development experience in one or more of the following programming languages: Python (preferred), Bash, Go, Java, C++, or Rust.
• Experience with at least 3 of the following topics: Distributed data storage (Hadoop, Ceph), NoSQL (MongoDB, Redis, Cassandra), Data Aggregation (ElasticSearch, Kafka), RDBMS (PostgreSQL, MySQL) with High Availability, Monitoring & Alerting (Prometheus, Grafana), Kubernetes and/or AWS, Software Distribution, Configuration Management (Ansible, SaltStack, Puppet, Chef).

Nice to have

• QA or SDET experience.

Culture & Benefits

• Work for a global leader in entertainment, contributing to the cloud gaming revolution.
• Be part of an inclusive environment that empowers employees and embraces diversity.
• Influence design and operational decisions towards overall service stability.
• Engage throughout the software development lifecycle to ensure operational readiness.