Senior Software Engineer - Cloud Streaming (Contractor)

2 months ago

Aliso Viejo, CA, USASenior

H1B sponsor

Responsibilities

Design, develop, and maintain software for globally distributed PlayStation Cloud Streaming infrastructure.
Build Kubernetes controllers, operators, and system services for infrastructure lifecycle management and orchestration.
Own features from design through implementation, testing, deployment, and production support.
Develop maintainable software with comprehensive unit and integration testing.
Investigate production issues and improve service reliability, performance, automation, and operational efficiency.
Collaborate with SRE, Test, and Platform Engineering and contribute to architecture discussions, technical designs, standards, and documentation.
Use AI-assisted development tools such as Codex and Claude while applying engineering review and validation.

Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Computer Engineering, or equivalent practical experience.
7+ years of professional software development experience.
Experience designing, implementing, and operating production software systems.
Strong production software development experience in Rust.
Experience building applications or controllers on Kubernetes and developing software on Linux.
Proficiency with Git, Docker, automated unit and integration testing, and modern software development workflows.
Experience debugging complex distributed applications and understanding concurrency, asynchronous programming, event-driven architectures, fault tolerance, and consistency models.
Knowledge of observability platforms including Prometheus, Grafana, OTel, or OpenSearch.
Experience with modern AI-assisted software development tools and critical engineering review.
Familiarity with Java or C++, infrastructure automation using Ansible or AWX, and GitOps workflows is preferred.
Strong written, verbal communication, documentation, troubleshooting, and cross-domain collaboration skills.
Open-source contributions are an additional attribute.