Senior Software Engineer, Data Ops - PDEGO
Sony Music Global Job Board•New York, NY
•$169,000 - $197,000•Onsite
About The Position
Sony Music's Product Design Engineering and Global Operations (PDEGO) team is looking for a Senior Software Engineer, Data Operations to own the reliability, observability, and operational health of our data platform.
Requirements
- 6-8+ years in software engineering with meaningful experience in SRE, platform engineering, or data infrastructure roles
- Proven record of contributing to production incident response, including stakeholder communication and post-incident analysis
- Deep understanding of monitoring and observability: alerting design, SLO definition, dashboards, and root cause analysis across distributed systems
- Hands-on experience with Snowflake or equivalent data warehouse at an operational level - access management, cost governance, performance tuning
- Experience with infrastructure-as-code; Terraform experience strongly preferred
- Strong debugging skills across cloud infrastructure, data pipelines, and distributed systems
- Familiarity with data pipeline tooling (Fivetran, dbt, Airflow, or equivalent)
- AWS experience preferred
- Clear, proactive communicator - comfortable translating technical incidents to business and analyst stakeholders without jargon
- Motivated to reduce toil through automation and scalable process - not just absorb operational load, but systematically eliminate it
- Interested in music and learning the intricacies of the music business
Responsibilities
- Build and maintain monitoring systems, alerting pipelines, and health dashboards that give the team real-time visibility into platform status
- Take an active role in production incident response - help triage, contribute to resolution, communicate clearly to stakeholders, and document post-mortems
- Identify and build automation for repetitive operational work - access requests, backfill coordination, and pipeline health checks - to improve team throughput over time
- Work on Snowflake infrastructure through Terraform - contributing to access controls, cost monitoring, and warehouse configuration
- Collaborate with Data Engineering on system design and code reviews with reliability and operability in mind
- Write and maintain runbooks, incident response playbooks, and platform documentation
- Support analyst enablement by improving platform reliability, query performance, and data accessibility across global teams
- Suggest and implement improvements to team tooling, processes, and operational practices
Benefits
- medical, dental, vision, life & disability coverage
- 401K + employer matching
- company-paid identity theft protection
- resources for pets
- mental health and meditation resources
- industry-leading fertility coverage
- fully paid leave for childbirth or bonding
- fully paid leave for caregivers
- programs for loved ones with developmental disabilities and neurodiversity
- subsidized back-up child and elder care
- reimbursement for adoption, surrogacy, tuition, and student loans
- Investment in your professional growth and development
- Time off for a winter recess
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What This Job Offers
Job Type
Full-time
Career Level
Senior
Education Level
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