Manager, Software Engineering

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 Corporation.

What Makes This Opportunity Unique

Join PlayStation as a Manager, Software Engineering - Build & Tools and lead a hardworking team focused on improving the efficiency of our developers. This role is crucial in ensuring that PlayStation engineers have seamless experiences with the tools and services that are essential to their work. You will have the chance to work with various tech stacks and platforms, from PS4/PS5 to Web, Mobile, and PC, and play a key role in crafting the future of our innovative developer tooling.

Job Responsibilities

• Partner with other PlayStation leaders to establish and drive developer efficiency benchmarks.
• Empower the engineering team, and others in the organization, to achieve a high level of technical efficiency, reliability, and simplicity.
• Guide and drive the development of build and deployment tools, to scale and accelerate our software release processes.
• Recruit great engineers, collaborating closely with PlayStation's recruiting team.
• Help engineers advance in their careers and develop new skills.
• Contribute to organization-wide initiatives as a member of PlayStation's engineering management team.

Required Qualifications

• 3+ years of people management experience.
• A bachelor’s degree in computer science, or equivalent experience.
• Hands-on experience building tools that are used daily by other developers (e.g. CI, build support).
• A passion for improving developer performance.
• Proven track record of successfully recruiting and building great teams.
• Ability to thrive on a high level of autonomy and responsibility.
• Clear and persuasive writing and in-person interpersonal kills.

Preferred Qualifications

• Experience leading teams that crafted and operated critical infrastructure, especially with a comprehensive scope encompassing core capabilities, builds, and quality.
• Having a deep understanding of developer needs and the ability to build groundbreaking solutions rather than solely improving existing ones.
• Comfortable planning in quarters and setting a long-term vision.
• Passionate about collaborating with teammates across PlayStation's organization to provide a world-class user experience for key developer workflows.
• Comfortable working with geographically distributed teams (JP, PST, EST timezones).

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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.