Senior Full Stack Developer - Telemetry

Haven Studios, part of PlayStation Studios, is seeking a Senior Full Stack Developer for Telemetry. This role involves developing and maintaining the analytics platform that collects gameplay, engine performance, and production data. The developer will work with game teams to provide logs, metrics, and traces for various systems, focusing on infrastructure, frontend, and services. The studio fosters a culture of kindness, adaptability, and courage, aiming to deliver a AAA multiplayer experience for PlayStation.

Must Have

• Develop and maintain instrumentation library in Rust
• Guide game development team in instrumentation library use
• Develop and maintain data ingestion and analysis services and infrastructure
• Implement and manage CI/CD pipeline for service deployment
• Optimize TypeScript and Canvas rendering code
• Collaborate with Telemetry and game development teams for support
• Plan work effectively and provide progress updates
• Maintain knowledge of technological advances and trends
• 5 years minimum experience as a Full Stack Developer
• Bachelor’s degree in computer science or similar
• Proficiency with front-end frameworks like Typescript and Svelte
• Experience optimizing real-time web applications
• Experience optimizing async applications/web-services
• Experience optimizing database schemas and SQL queries
• Experience with data frames and query engines in analytics
• Experience with distributed applications, container orchestration, and cloud native technologies
• Experience in DevOps using infrastructure as code
• Experience developing Grafana plugins and/or Golang

Good to Have

• Experience with software performance profilers (Unreal Insight, Pix Renderman, VTune, etc.)
• Experience working in AWS (ECS, ECR, S3, MySQL Aurora, Docker)
• Experience with Datafusion and Parquet file format
• Experience using Rust
• Experience using JupyterLab and Python
• Experience using Apache Arrow and Datafusion
• Experience using ECS/Fargate
• Experience using Terraform
• Experience using OpenAPI / REST API

Perks & Benefits

• Inclusive environment
• Empowers employees and embraces diversity
• Culture of flexibility, focus and collaboration
• Opportunity to create new exclusive IP for PlayStation
• Working in a hybrid studio

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.

Founded in 2021, Haven Studios is a game development studio headquartered in Montreal and a member of the PlayStation Studios family. Our goal was to build a studio of exceptional people we love working with where together we would make the kind of games we’ve always wanted to create. At Haven, we believe that kindness, adaptability and fearless optimism make space for creative excellence. We are a hybrid studio that supports a culture of flexibility, focus and collaboration for our teams. Our first game, a competitive action heist, is currently in development for PlayStation and PC. Come help us build a grounded, dynamic and evolving world focused on freedom, thrill and playfulness that will entertain and engage players for years to come.

Position - Senior Full Stack Developer - Telemetry

We are looking for an experienced Full Stack Developer, passionate about Telemetry and performance analytics, to join us at Haven Entertainment Studios. You will be responsible for implementing the different services and frontends of our analytics platform. This platform collects data from our gameplay, game engine as well as our production processes. More precisely, you will be working with our game development team to offer logs, metrics and traces of each system.

Reporting

The Senior Full Stack Developer will report to the Technical Producer.

Responsibilities and Duties

• Develop and maintain our instrumentation library in Rust;
• Guide our game development team in the use and implementation of the instrumentation library;
• Develop and maintain data ingestion and analysis services as well as the infrastructure that supports it;
• Implement and manage a CI/CD pipeline for deploying and updating services in different production environments;
• Enjoy working with a web-based front-end stack;
• Optimize TypeScript and Canvas rendering code;
• Collaborate with members of the Telemetry team as well as the game development team to provide training and support (e.g. code review);
• Plan work effectively, and provide realistic updates on progress to your team and managers;
• Maintain knowledge and analyze the potential of technological advances and trends;

Experience and skills required

• 5 years minimum of experience as a Full Stack Developer;
• Bachelor’s degree in computer science or similar;
• Proficiency using front-end frameworks like Typescript and Svelte (or similar);
• Experience optimizing real-time rendering of web applications;
• Experience optimizing async applications/web-services (bonus if experience with Rust);
• Experience optimizing database schemas and queries (particularly SQL-Like);
• Experience using data frames and query engines in an analytics context;
• Experience supporting a distributed application based on container orchestration and cloud; native technologies;
• Experience in DevOps using infrastructure as code;
• Experience developing Grafana plugins and/or Golang;
• Thirst to learn;

Bonus experience and skills

• Experience with software performance profilers (Unreal Insight, Pix Renderman, VTune, etc).
• Experience working in AWS (ECS, ECR, S3, MySQL Aurora, Docker).
• Experience with Datafusion and Parquet file format.
• Experience using
• Rust
• JupyterLab and python
• Apache Arrow and Datafusion
• ECS/Fargate
• Terraform
• OpenAPI / REST API

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.

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