Software Developer Intern - Infrastructure

Software Developer Intern - Cloud Infrastructure & Tools

Application ID: 122873

PlayStation isn’t just the Best Place to Play — it’s also the Best Place to Work. We’ve thrilled gamers since 1994, when we launched the original PlayStation. Today, we’re recognized as a global leader in interactive and digital entertainment. The PlayStation brand falls under Sony Interactive Entertainment, a wholly-owned subsidiary of Sony Corporation.

Are you interested in working on cloud infrastructure and tools supporting our internal PlayStation developers, enabling them to confidently deliver incredible experiences to our customers?

Our Foundational Systems and Experiences Engineering (FSEE) organization is responsible for building everything from the system software and customer-facing experiences that run on PlayStation consoles, to the SDKs that third-party game developers use to integrate with our PlayStation Network. 

As a Software Developer Intern on our Cloud Infrastructure team, you’ll work alongside our full-time engineers located across North America, Europe and Japan, to automate infrastructure, develop tools, and create pipelines to build, test, and ship PS4/PS5 console, web, mobile, and PC applications!

• Collaborate with a team to build modern tools and cloud infrastructure used by our PlayStation®4 and PlayStation®5 console, web, mobile and PC application teams
• Create, extend and maintain libraries, tools, and applications powering our CI/CD pipelines
• Write clear, maintainable, portable, and highly functional code
• Test and document code and processes
• Support infrastructure reliability efforts

Minimum Requirements:

• A strong understanding of object-oriented principles
• Familiarity with common data structures and algorithms
• Experience with Git, GitHub
• Experience with JavaScript / TypeScript
• Familiar with common web tooling and frameworks
• Familiar with container technologies such as Docker
• Comfortable navigating the Linux command line

Preferred Requirements:

• Experience working with RESTful web APIs Experience with Docker and/or Kubernetes
• Understanding of Linux and Windows operating systems
• Familiar with telemetry related technologies (ELK, Grafana, Prometheus, Cloudwatch, etc.)
• Experience with AWS (EC2, EKS, S3, RDS, etc.)
• Familiar with Continuous Integration and Continuous Delivery / Deployment (CI/CD)
• Excellent communication and collaboration skills

• Above average pay based on your current work term, verified by the latest co-op earnings report on the uwaterloo website. Feel free to ask about compensation in the interview!
• PlayStation game vouchers for select PS4/PS5 games that are released during the co-op term
• PlayStation store credit every month
• Access to our employee store with discounts on select Sony/PlayStation products
• Paid lunch for team/company special events (typically 1 event per month)
• Special intern events organized by our Early Career Talent team
• Free lunch and snacks if you’re working from the office
• Hackathons
• Career/personal development resources

A few other things you should know:

• Our office is a fun, relaxed and casual environment. We’re a tight-knit community of about 60+ full-time employees, and we enjoy welcoming new co-ops each term (we typically have 5 or more)

PlayStation Careers | Be Epic: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TuKp733BF54

Targeted Clusters

- Theme - Computing: Software 

ENG - Electrical and Computer Engineering 

ENG - Software Engineering 

MATH - Computer Science