About the job

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Seeking a passionate and tech-savvy undergraduate for a Site Reliability Engineer Internship at PlayStation. Must have strong communication skills, AWS knowledge, Java experience, and familiarity with CICD. Experience with monitoring tools and software development is a plus.

Why PlayStation?

PlayStation isn’t just the Best Place to Play — it’s also the Best Place to Work. Today, we’re recognized as a global leader in entertainment producing The PlayStation family of products and services including PlayStation®5, PlayStation®4, PlayStation®VR, PlayStation®Plus, acclaimed PlayStation software titles from PlayStation Studios, and more.

PlayStation also strives to create an inclusive environment that empowers employees and embraces diversity. We welcome and encourage everyone who has a passion and curiosity for innovation, technology, and play to explore our open positions and join our growing global team.

The PlayStation brand falls under Sony Interactive Entertainment, a wholly-owned subsidiary of Sony Corporation.

Site Reliability Engineer Intern - Undergraduate

San Diego, CA: this position can be performed fully remote, hybrid, or fully in person out of the SIE-PlayStation San Diego office.

About the Team:

As a member of the Commerce Reliability Engineering team, you will carry the responsibility of keeping our monetization platform highly available and resilient, while continually enabling our service teams to deliver new and exciting product and technical features. Our team strives to iteratively learn, improve and automate our processes every single day, which continually improves operational excellence within our organization. You will be empowered to be a technical leader on our team, helping identify and proactivity drive improvements in both.

What You’ll Be Doing:

As a member of the CRE Team, you'll be responsible for the following:

Support the ongoing operations and reliability of PlayStation's monetization platform in an Amazon Web Services (AWS) environment
Execute application deployments to enable the delivery of awesome PlayStation experiences to our customers
Develop informative dashboards for our services that provide valuable insight, and develop meaningful alerting patterns to drive down recovery times for platform incidents
Iteratively lead performance and capacity validation analysis for our commerce platform services
Collaborate and partner with other SRE teams that specialize in areas such as EKS, CICD, data services, and platform hosting to inspire changes and ensure optimal application performance and resiliency

What We’re Looking For:

Great communication skills (verbal and written)
Desire & passion for learning technology
Enjoys a fast paced, collaborative environment
Adept documentation skills
Basic understanding of AWS and popular managed services (Ec2, ALB, r53, lambda, CloudFormation, etc.)
Familiarity with Java services running on an application server (ie: Tomcat)
Familiarity with source code management tools (GitHub preferred)
Familiar utilizing s continuous integration and continuous delivery (CICD) deployment pattern
Familiar with application monitoring tools (preference: DataDog, CloudWatch, Splunk)
Basic software development experience (Java, Python, Go)

Eligibility:

Able to work during one of the following periods: May 19th - August 8th or June 16th - September 5th.
Must be available for the entire 12-week internship period.
Open to students who are U.S. citizens or international students with an F-1 visa.
Relocation assistance is available for eligible candidates.

Our intern positions offer a fixed hourly pay rate. Please note that the pay rate is exclusive to the internship period and may not reflect what pay may look like following the completion of an internship.

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At SIE, we consider several factors when setting each role’s base pay range, including the competitive benchmarking data for the market and geographic location.

Please note that the base pay range may vary in line with our hybrid working policy and individual base pay will be determined based on job-related factors which may include knowledge, skills, experience, and location.

Intern Pay Range

$41.50 — $45.75 USD

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.

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

$41.5K - $45.8K/yr (Outscal est.)

$43.6K/yr avg.

San Diego, California, United States

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Sony Interactive Entertainment pushes the boundaries of entertainment and innovation, starting from the launch of the original PlayStation in Japan in 1994. Today, we continue to deliver innovative and thrilling experiences to a global audience through our PlayStation line of products and services that include generation-defining hardware, pioneering network services, and award-winning games. Headquartered in San Mateo, California, with global functions in California, London, and Tokyo, and game development studios around the world as part of PlayStation Studios, we believe that the power of play is borderless. Sony Interactive Entertainment is a wholly owned subsidiary of Sony Group Corporation.

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