Software Engineer II

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.

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Software Engineer II (Trust and Safety)

We have an amazing opportunity for qualified candidates to work in our Trust and Safety engineering team. You will work with our Operations and Product teams to design, build and enhance our world-class tools for managing user generated content on our platform.

You'll produce highly scalable and efficient services for ensuring maximum operator efficiency, and leverage AI to automate and aid rapid decision making against reported and detected toxic content. You'll not only be instrumental in making PlayStation a safe place to play, but also contribute to the health of online gaming in general.

Job Responsibilities

• Develop, implement, and maintain software solutions to ensure the highest levels of trust and safety within the PlayStation ecosystem.
• Collaborate with Operations, Legal, Product and other stakeholders to ensure that our safety operations tooling meets company and regulatory requirements, all while offering innovative solutions to increase efficiency and the well being of our teams.
• Apply your expertise to identify, analyze, and resolve complex problems, ensuring flawless performance and reliability.
• Contribute to PlayStation's future direction by partnering with collaborators to identify alignments, common workflows, propose architectures, and work across multiple regions to achieve them
• Work diligently to improve existing systems and processes, continuously striving for progress and perfection.

Qualifications Required

• Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Engineering, or a related field, or equivalent experience.
• Minimum 3+ years professional experience writing scalable server side code, or full stack applications
• Strong programming skills in languages such as Java, React, or similar.
• Outstanding problem-solving skills and a meticulous attention to detail.
• Ability to work collaboratively in a diverse, inclusive environment, promoting a culture of teamwork and innovation.
• Excellent communication skills, both written and verbal, to effectively convey complex technical concepts, able to adapt your style to the differing needs of our partners

Preferred Qualifications

• Current experience of trust and safety practices and technologies
• Understanding and experience working with AI/ML
• Familiar with many AWS technologies
• Strong sense of ownership

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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.