Software Engineer

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.

Do you want to join a team of talented engineers dedicated to enhancing the PlayStation experience for millions of users and creators? As part of our Data Platform team, you will play a key role in building cutting-edge systems that power PlayStation’s data-driven features, delivering impactful insights and enabling seamless, interactive experiences!

The Software Engineers within our Platform Engineering Group design, build, document, and deploy large-scale data platforms that optimize performance and scalability across PlayStation systems. You will work on solving complex data challenges, improving platform capabilities, and ensuring high availability, all while supporting a dynamic, interactive environment for PlayStation users.

We’re looking for someone who is passionate about building innovative data platforms that scale to millions of users, collaborating across Engineering and Product teams in an agile environment. You’ll have the opportunity to work with the latest technologies, tools, and processes, helping to drive forward our technical and architectural goals.

What you’ll be doing:

• Play a pivotal role in build, code review, deploy, and support software for our Real Time Data Analytics and Visualization Platform.
• Be part of a team building streaming pipeline solutions to reshape data and ingest into the platform in near real time.
• Have extensive hands-on technical domain expertise in data infrastructure and visualization within the cloud (preferably AWS) ecosystem.
• Collaborate with the team globally in different time zones.
• Actively participates in rotational, on-call support for Production/critical issues
• Create required technical and user documentation
• Represent the team in technical forums, present designs, and share experiences with other Sony software development organizations.
• Ensure accuracy and completeness through usage of unit tests for portions of code delivered

What we’re looking for:

• Degree in Engineering, Computer Science or equivalent experience.
• 2-4 years’ experience in software development, design and analysis using Scala, Java, or Python
• Strong foundation in data engineering, data structures and software design.
• Experience with real time data streaming technologies such as Kafka, Kinesis
• Experience with OLAP/MOLAP database technologies such as Apache Druid, Pinot, Clickhouse
• Experience with container technologies, such as Docker, Kubernetes, AWS EKS
• Hands-on experience in cloud-based web services, at enterprise scale, AWS is preferable.
• The drive and passion for quality with the ability to inspire, excite and motivate other team members.
• Strong 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.
• Strong sense of ownership and passion to provide world class customer experience.

Benefits:

• Discretionary bonus opportunity
• Hybrid Working (within Flexmodes)
• Private Medical Insurance
• Dental Scheme
• 25 days holiday per year
• On Site Gym
• Subsidised Café
• Free soft drinks
• On site bar
• Access to cycle garage and showers

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.