Senior Software Engineer - Platform Core Solutions/Shared Services

Why Sony Interactive Entertainment?

Sony Interactive Entertainment isn’t just the Best Place to Play — it’s also the Best Place to Work. Sony Interactive Entertainment (SIE) is the company behind the PlayStation brand. As a subsidiary of Sony Group Corporation, we’re part of a proud legacy of innovation and excellence. SIE is a dynamic technology company, delivering cutting-edge hardware and network services to more than 100 million people and an entertainment leader, home to some of the most beloved and recognizable intellectual properties (IP) in the world. Our role at SIE is to create and nurture the experiences under the PlayStation brand, a name synonymous with entertainment excellence and creativity.

The Platform Core Solutions/Shared Services Development Team works on designing and building solutions that provide standardized capabilities for use across the PlayStation platform. These solutions empower teams to focus on their core business functions by providing operationally sound services with ease of adoption. Our services include REST micro-services as well as java libraries dealing with data abstraction, event publishing, batch processing, secrets access and so forth. We are looking for problem solvers, who can take initiative to tackle the most interesting and diverse technical challenges of developing software at scale. We are open to adoption of the latest tools and techniques for solving complex problems.

Senior Engineer Responsibilities:

• Perform in-depth analysis of functional or business requirements.

• Design and develop highly performant and scalable services and libraries using industry standards

• Play a senior role in design, development, quality and operations of services owned by the team partnering across product management, architects and operations. Drive performance testing strategy, define workflows. Develop test scripts and scenarios to meet these requirements

• Position requires hands-on technical expertise coupled with excellent problem-solving and communication skills

• Use agile development methodologies, provide time/resource estimates

• Participate in on-call rotations

Qualifications:

• Bachelor or Masters degree in computer science or equivalent

• 5+ years of software development experience, proficiency in Java programming and Object-oriented analysis and design

• Experience developing high performance, scalable, active-active web services using REST, and JSON.

• Experience working with spring, spring boot and related spring technologies

• Proven understanding of SQL. Experience working with relational (Oracle or similar) and NoSQL databases (Aerospike, Dynamo or similar)

• Hands-on experience in Amazon Web Services at enterprise scale is required including familiarity with EKS and managed services like DynamoDB, Kinesis, Lambda etc

• Experience with Python and GO is a plus

• Track record monitoring and analyzing system performance, isolating issues or bottlenecks that could impact reliability, performance and scalability

• Experience executing performance testing and/or development efforts for complex, high throughput system

• Drive and passion for quality with the ability to excite and motivate other team members.

• Strong interpersonal and communication skills, ability to work with geographically remote teams

Sony is an Equal Opportunity Employer. All persons will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, gender, pregnancy, national origin, ancestry, citizenship, age, legally protected physical or mental disability, covered veteran status, status in the U.S. uniformed services, sexual orientation, marital status, genetic information 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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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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