# Staff Production Operations Engineer

Hiring organization: [Bend Studio](https://career.thegoodapps.co/organizations/bend-studio)

Canonical page: https://career.thegoodapps.co/jobs/40b31dc2-d79c-4147-ab6f-c19ceadf9d1f

Listed on Bend Studio's own careers site. Applications go to them directly.

- Seniority: Staff
- Location: San Diego, CA
- Salary: 199400 – 299200 USD per year

## Summary

This is a Staff-level production operations engineer role at PlayStation, responsible for keeping major gaming services reliable and performant across millions of users. It suits experienced engineers who combine deep cloud infrastructure expertise with hands-on systems troubleshooting and a track record of building scalable operational practices across large teams.

_Our summary, not Bend Studio's wording._

## Skills named

Amazon CloudWatch, Amazon EKS, Amazon Web Services (AWS), Ansible, AWS CloudFormation, Chef, Cursor AI, Datadog, Docker, Git, GitHub, Go, Grafana, Java, Jenkins, Jira, Kubernetes, Linux, OpenAI Codex, Python, ServiceNow, Slack, Snowflake, Spinnaker, Splunk, SQL, Terraform, Unix

## Required

- 10+ years operating production services at scale
- 5+ years deploying and operating services on AWS
- Hands-on incident management and on-call experience
- Distributed systems architecture and operations knowledge
- Deep Linux/Unix systems internals
- AWS services including ALB, Route 53, API Gateway, Lambda, RDS, DynamoDB, ElastiCache
- Docker and Kubernetes container orchestration
- Automation in Python, Go or Java
- Infrastructure as Code with Terraform or CloudFormation
- Observability tools like Datadog, CloudWatch, Splunk, Grafana
- Bachelor's degree in Computer Science or related field

## Nice to have

- Payment processing or financial systems experience
- Commerce or entitlement systems background
- Fraud detection systems experience
- Wallet systems experience
- AI-assisted development tool experience

Apply on Bend Studio's site: https://job-boards.greenhouse.io/sonyinteractiveentertainmentglobal/jobs/6139860004