$199,400 – $299,200
Listed on Bend Studio’s own careers site. You apply with them directly — we never stand between you and the employer.
What this role is
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. The full posting is on their site.
Skills this role names
- 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
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What they ask for
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