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# Staff Software Engineer at PlayStation Global

- **Company:** PlayStation Global
- **Location:** Adelaide, Australia
- **Posted:** 2026-10-06
- **Last confirmed live:** 2026-10-17
- **Apply:** https://job-boards.greenhouse.io/sonyinteractiveentertainmentglobal/jobs/6218037004

## Job description

Why Sony Interactive Entertainment?

Sony Interactive Entertainment isn’t just the Best Place to Play — it’s also the Best Place to Work. Sony Interactive Entertainment (SIE) is the company behind the PlayStation brand. As a subsidiary of Sony Group Corporation, we’re part of a proud legacy of innovation and excellence. SIE is a dynamic technology company, delivering cutting-edge hardware and network services to more than 100 million people and an entertainment leader, home to some of the most beloved and recognizable intellectual properties (IP) in the world. Our role at SIE is to create and nurture the experiences under the PlayStation brand, a name synonymous with entertainment excellence and creativity.

## About the role

We are looking for a Staff Software Engineer to help shape and build the next generation of our network automation platforms.

Our challenge is one of scale, complexity and criticality. We operate a massive global network supporting PlayStation Network, spanning more than 40 interconnection locations and 20+ data centres worldwide. Operating infrastructure at this scale safely and efficiently requires us to move beyond specialist-driven workflows and individual automation tools toward reliable, declarative software platforms.

You will help make that transition. You will work on software that turns complex network and infrastructure operations into reliable, API-driven and increasingly self-service capabilities. This includes building control-plane services, declarative APIs and intent-based controllers that manage production infrastructure safely and consistently across our global footprint.

This is a Staff-level engineering role with significant technical influence. You will combine hands-on engineering with setting technical direction: defining architectures, solving complex cross-system and distributed-systems problems, writing designs, driving alignment with senior engineers and architects, and mentoring engineers across the team.

Your work will directly influence how one of the world's largest gaming networks is operated and automated, while establishing engineering patterns and platforms that can be reused across multiple network domains and services.

## What you'll do

- Provide technical leadership and architectural direction for network automation and infrastructure control platforms, treating the self-service network API as a product by working with users and partner teams to define outcomes, establish clear expectations for API behavior and reliability, align on team responsibilities, and ensure those commitments are met.
- Use domain-driven design with network experts, software engineers and API consumers to establish shared language and bounded contexts, then turn those agreements into versioned, testable contracts.
- Design and build APIs, services, controllers and reconciliation workflows that manage production infrastructure safely at scale.
- Build on the Kubernetes API, including custom resources and control loops that continuously converge actual state toward declared intent.
- Own the operational Kubernetes path: CRD rollout, RBAC and admission, controller health, Helm packaging, deployment drift and incident diagnosis.
- Design distributed workflows that operate correctly under eventual consistency, at-least-once delivery, concurrent writes and partial failure, with idempotency and safe recovery as fundamental properties.
- Design stable APIs, schemas and data models used across team boundaries, including versioning and backwards compatibility.
- Develop patterns for multi-tenant infrastructure platforms, including tenant isolation, authorization, policy enforcement and safe automation boundaries.
- Establish strong approaches to testing, observability and change safety for software that changes live infrastructure.
- Improve software delivery practices through automated CI gates, versioned artifacts, controlled promotion, and safe deployment and recovery strategies.
- Lead complex migrations and modernization of existing automation, services and data models, evaluating when components should be evolved, replaced or rewritten, and ensuring safe coexistence, behavioral compatibility and retirement of legacy paths.
- Drive technical alignment across software engineering, networking, operations and architecture teams; lead decisions within your area of accountability, contribute constructively to decisions owned by others, and make technology choices based on long-term company and product value.
- Mentor engineers, lead technical and design reviews, and raise software engineering standards across the wider organization.

## What we're looking for

Must have

- Deep expertise in a backend language such as Python, Go, Rust or Java, including asynchronous concurrency, static typing, data modelling and validation, API development, packaging and tooling.
- Strong experience building Kubernetes controllers or operators, including custom resources and reconciliation/control-loop patterns.
- Strong experience building event-driven distributed systems, particularly eventual consistency, at-least-once delivery, idempotency, optimistic concurrency and partial-failure handling.
- Experience designing and building self-service, multi-tenant platforms, including tenant isolation, policy and access control.
- Strong API and schema design skills, including versioning and schema evolution for interfaces consumed by other teams and systems.
- Demonstrated technical leadership across team boundaries, including driving architectural designs, building agreement among senior technical stakeholders and mentoring other engineers.
- A track record of taking ambiguous, technically complex problems from architecture through to reliable production systems that manage large-scale infrastructure, such as networks, compute or cloud resources.

## Nice to have

- Networking fundamentals, particularly BGP, IP fabrics and VXLAN/EVPN/L3VPN.
- Working knowledge of Go, sufficient to understand and contribute to adjacent services and controllers.
- Experience designing testing and observability strategies for production infrastructure automation, including systems and backends that cannot be fully reproduced in CI.
- Experience with graph databases, or with source-of-truth systems that model infrastructure and its relationships.

The impact

You will help establish the architecture and engineering practices behind a new generation of network automation, moving from individual scripts and specialist-driven workflows toward declarative, model-driven and reliable platforms.

At Staff level, your impact is expected to extend beyond the code you personally deliver. You will help shape the APIs and designs other teams build on, develop other engineers, and establish technical patterns that can be reused across multiple network domains and services. Please note, Sony Interactive Entertainment conducts background checks at the offer stage for all new employees (which may include criminal background checks for some roles) and will need to process personal information to support these checks.

Please refer to our [Candidate Privacy Notice](https://www.playstation.com/legal/careers-privacy-notice/) for more information about what personal information we collect, how we use it, who we share it with, and your data protection rights.

Equal Opportunity Statement:

Sony is an Equal Opportunity Employer. All persons will receive consideration for employment without regard to gender (including gender identity, gender expression and gender reassignment), race (including colour, nationality, ethnic or national origin), religion or belief, marital or civil partnership status, disability, age, sexual orientation, pregnancy, maternity or parental status, trade union membership or membership in any other legally protected category.

We strive to create an inclusive environment, empower employees and embrace diversity. We encourage everyone to respond.

Sony Interactive Entertainment is a Fair Chance employer and qualified applicants with arrest and conviction records will be considered for employment.

## About PlayStation Global

## Company Overview
- **One-liner**: Sony Interactive Entertainment (SIE) is the global leader in interactive entertainment behind the PlayStation brand, delivering generation-defining hardware, pioneering network services, and award-winning games.
- **Entity Type**: Private (wholly owned subsidiary of Sony Group Corporation)
- **Headquarters**: San Mateo, California, USA (with global functions in London, United Kingdom, and Tokyo, Japan)
- **Founded**: 1994 (with the launch of the original PlayStation in Japan)
- **Founders**: Not publicly available as a single founder; the PlayStation brand was created by Sony Corporation

## Core Business
- **Primary industry**: Gaming & Interactive Entertainment
- **Target customers**: B2C (gamers and consumers worldwide), B2B (game developers, publishers, and partners)
- **Mission or purpose statement**: "To be the best place to play" – pushing the boundaries of play and inspiring remarkable experiences for players everywhere.

## Products & Services
- **PlayStation 5 (PS5)**: Flagship home video game console, including PS5 Pro model, with cutting-edge hardware and immersive gaming experiences.
- **PlayStation Network (PSN)**: Online service platform enabling multiplayer, digital storefront, and social features.
- **PlayStation Plus**: Subscription service offering online multiplayer, monthly games, and cloud storage.
- **PlayStation VR2**: Next-generation virtual reality headset for PS5.
- **PlayStation Studios**: A collective of first-party game development studios producing iconic franchises (The Last of Us, God of War, Horizon, Spider-Man, etc.).
- **PlayStation Accessories**: Controllers (DualSense), headsets, and other peripherals.
- **PlayStation Store**: Digital marketplace for games, add-ons, and media.
- **PlayStation 5 Console & Games**: Hardware and software sold globally.

## Market Standing
- **Valuation/Market Cap**: Not publicly available (wholly owned subsidiary of Sony Group Corporation)
- **Key Metric**: PS5 generation has generated more than **$136 billion in sales** and **$13 billion in operating income** as of March 31, 2026. PlayStation 5 sold-in over **93 million units** worldwide. **125 million monthly active users** (as of March 31, 2026). **Over 1.64 billion software units** sold across PS4 and PS5. **51 billion hours** of annual gameplay (as of March 31, 2025).
- **Notable Investors/Partners**: Sony Group Corporation (parent company); extensive network of third-party publishers, developers, and platform partners.
- **Growth Signals**: Record-high engagement levels; continued expansion of first-party studios; successful launch of PS5 Pro; increasing digital and subscription revenue; strong global brand recognition.

## Competitive Advantages
- **Integrated Ecosystem**: End-to-end control over hardware, software, network services, and first-party content creation.
- **Iconic IP Portfolio**: Beloved franchises (The Last of Us, God of War, Horizon, Gran Turismo, etc.) that drive platform loyalty.
- **Global Brand Power**: PlayStation is one of the most recognized entertainment brands worldwide.
- **Scale & Reach**: 125 million MAU, 93 million PS5 consoles sold, and a massive library of software.
- **Innovation Track Record**: Consistently pushing boundaries in graphics, haptics, VR, and online services.

## Strategic Focus
- Continuing to grow the PlayStation 5 install base and expand into new hardware (PS5 Pro, PS VR2).
- Strengthening first-party game development and acquiring/expanding studios.
- Growing network services and subscription revenue through PlayStation Plus.
- Leveraging IP across other media (film, TV, merchandise) via Sony Pictures.
- Enhancing cloud gaming and streaming capabilities.
- Fostering an inclusive, diverse, and innovative workplace culture.

## Why Work Here
- **Culture**: Celebrated for being "trailblazers, passionate, one" – a united, diverse, and innovative global team. Recognized as a 2025 & 2026 Company Leader in LGBTQ+ Workplace Inclusion (Human Rights Campaign Corporate Equality Index 100).
- **Flexible Work**: "Flex Modes" blend in-person collaboration and remote flexibility, allowing teams to connect when it counts and work from anywhere.
- **Benefits & Perks**: Comprehensive benefits package including learning & development tailored paths, well-being initiatives, and top-tier amenities.
- **Engineering & Tech**: Opportunities across software engineering, game development, network services, cybersecurity, data analytics, and more.
- **Global Presence**: Offices in San Mateo (HQ), London, Tokyo, and additional studios worldwide.
- **Internship Program**: "Internships that Inspire" for students and early-career talent.

## Sources
1. [playstation.com](https://www.playstation.com/en-us/corporate/about-us/) – About Us, facts, and leadership
2. [sonyinteractive.com](https://sonyinteractive.com/en/our-company/) – Company overview, values, fast facts
3. [careers.playstation.com](https://careers.playstation.com/) – Careers page with culture, benefits, and hiring process
4. [job-boards.greenhouse.io](https://job-boards.greenhouse.io/sonyinteractiveentertainmentglobal) – Current job listings (e.g., Corporate Development, Business Analyst)

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