Senior Build and Integration Engineer

Sony Bend Studio, renowned creator of Days Gone, Uncharted: Golden Abyss, and Syphon Filter, is seeking outstanding talent to join our passionate and creative family in crafting our next high-profile AAA console title.

We are seeking a Senior Build and Integration Engineer, responsible for architecting, implementing, and maintaining the Bend Studio code and data build pipeline infrastructure and providing tooling and oversight of a regular cadence of large-codebase integration.

Responsibilities:

• Solve problems with existing pipelines, focusing on simple, robust, and performant solutions.
• Upgrade, evolve, and maintain existing infrastructure, including build server configurations, build scripts and the code and data pipelines.
• Support build release and patching pipeline, build deployment tool suite, code integration, testing utilities, and packaging pipeline.
• Continually integrate large multi-language code bases with minimal interruptions to the team.
• Interface with everyone on the team: get to the bottom of simple and complex problems. Provide direct solutions.
• Collaborate with IT to ensure a broad understanding of approaches and solutions.
• Write clear, maintainable, portable, and highly functional scripts and code.
• Test and document work produced.
• Create and manage complex build branching schemes.
• Implement and maintain effective reporting systems to facilitate team needs.
• Independently undertake research prior to starting a new system or task to ensure implementation effectively meets defined goals.
• Optimize toolchain systems to full advantage of target hardware and architecture.
• Maintain a clear understanding of personal and team task lists and project milestones to ensure goals will be met from a scope, schedule or game-play perspective.
• Clearly communicate updates and concerns to the Technical Director.
• Present complex technical issues to both programmers and other less technical team members.

Requirements:

• Minimum 3-5 years industry experience or related experience.
• One or more published titles.
• Up-to-date experience and knowledge of scripting languages.
• B.S. in computer science, engineering or relevant curriculum.
• Excellent C/C++ skills.
• Experience in a wide-range of game engine and toolchain systems (e.g., rendering pipelines, file IO, memory management, performance evaluation and tuning, input systems)
• Strong knowledge of production development tools including compilers, build tools, IDEs, CI/CD, source code, and asset control systems, and integration with 3D editing packages.
• Extensive knowledge of Perforce.