Director, Software Engineering

3 Weeks ago • 10-17 Years • Product Management

Job Summary

Job Description

As Director of Software Engineering at PlayStation, you'll lead and empower engineering teams (Architects, Analysts, Engineers, and Quality Engineers) to deliver high-performing, scalable solutions. Responsibilities include showcasing ownership of deliverables, fostering agile engineering and quality practices, building automated self-service capabilities, and leading technology transformation. You'll participate in product roadmap discussions, drive operational excellence, and collaborate across organizational boundaries. This role requires extensive experience in enterprise-scale solution delivery, agile methodologies, and leading high-performing teams. You will also play a key role in the technology transformation of existing capabilities and innovation of new capabilities.
Must have:
  • Lead and inspire engineering teams
  • Deliver high-availability, scalable solutions
  • Agile development experience
  • 10+ years enterprise solution delivery
  • Experience with transactional data technologies
  • Technology transformation experience
Good to have:
  • MS in CS or IS
  • Experience with data science, architecture and modelling

Job Details

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 Group Corporation.

As a Director, you are a key leader in defining a culture that aligns with and further enables our tremendous growth. You possess strong acumen and technical skills that, in combination, allows you to develop well-balanced processes and solutions that deliver material organisational value. We are looking for a Leader with exceptional leadership skills, and passion that is contagious.

What you'll be doing:

  • Acquires and empowers highly talented, passionate, driven leaders to lead and inspire our engineering teams.
  • Leads and unleashes teams of Architects, Analysts, Engineers, and Quality Engineers to deliver highly available, scalable, and performant solutions
  • Showcases uncompromising ownership of outcomes and deliverables for their team
  • Role Model for Customer focused delivery for both internal and external customers
  • Energetically, passionately, and effectively works across organisational boundaries, collaborating to deliver awesome platform capabilities.
  • Experienced Operational Leader that drives Operational Excellence and Continuous Improvement within their team and across the organisation.
  • Builds and fosters agile engineering capabilities and quality engineering practices.
  • Demonstrates leadership and expertise by building, operating, and optimising automated self-service capabilities at enterprise scale.
  • Performs a key leadership role in the technology transformation of the existing capabilities and innovation of new capabilities to support business growth.
  • Leads and delivers results against the Platform Strategy Roadmap for the enterprise. This includes setting vision, gathering requirements, gaining business consensus, performing vendor and product evaluations, mentoring business and development resources, and delivering solutions.
  • Participates in product roadmap discussions and identifies key areas for improvement in the product and incorporate these goals into ongoing & future development initiatives
  • Assists or directly drives site related responsibilities

What we're looking for:

  • BS or Master’s Degree in Engineering, Computer Science or equivalent experience. MS in CS or IS preferred with emphasis on data science, architecture and modelling or database design.
  • Extensive recent experience with technology transformation, specifically designing, implementing, and operating automated, self-service solutions
  • Deep technical experience with transactional data technologies
  • 10+ years’ experience required in delivering enterprise scale solutions in support of on-line, secure, scalable, resilient software as a service and data as a service delivery required.
  • 7+ years of leading, inspiring, and growing talented Software Engineering teams.
  • Experience leading teams in researching new and emerging technologies to realise potential value, business fit, operations, and cost efficiencies of implementing such technologies is necessary.
  • Extensive experience with agile development methodologies and processes required
  • Must possess the drive and passion for technology leadership with the ability to excite, mentor, and motivate team members in various roles in the organisation
  • Must possess outstanding verbal and written communication skills, and be able to work with others at all levels; effective at working with geographically remote and culturally diverse teams.

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.

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Want to take your career to the next level? Search open job vacancies at any of the Sony Interactive sites by visiting playstation.com/careers/


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.  


For more information about our company, please visit SonyInteractive.com. For more information about PlayStation products, please visit PlayStation.com.

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