Senior Software Engineer Platform Data
Senior Software Engineer Platform Data
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$ 177300 - 265900
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Why PlayStation
PlayStation isnt just the Best Place to Play its also the Best Place to Work. Today were recognized as a global leader in entertainment producing The PlayStation family of products and services including PlayStation5 PlayStation4 PlayStationVR PlayStationPlus 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 Group Corporation.
Ready to take your career to the next level Join PlayStation as a Senior Software Engineer - Platform Data and be a key player in driving innovation in the dynamic field of interactive entertainment. Youll collaborate with an elite engineering team dedicated to crafting seamless scalable experiences for a worldwide player base.
At PlayStation were recognized not only for providing outstanding gaming experiences but also for encouraging a top-tier engineering environment centered on innovation creativity and technical excellence. We encourage passionate engineers who thrive on solving complex problems and are aligned with our vision of crafting the future of play.
Role Overview:
A Senior Software Engineer - Platform Data is crucial for developing automating and maintaining scalable data platforms emphasizing Infrastructure as Code (IaC) and cloud-native technologies.
This role centers on the reliability and automation of NoSQL Streaming and Caching services within AWS and GCP environments. Youll compose durable automation frameworks maintain high availability and collaborate with product and platform teams to provide resilient high-performance infrastructure for real-time data services.
Embrace Dev & SRE principles prioritize automation and use AI/ML to boost system performance.
Work closely with platform and product teams to ensure the seamless integration and delivery of high-performance solutions for global PlayStation experiences. Your efforts will directly impact the scalability and reliability of our global data solutions platform.
Responsibilities:
- Develop and implement Infrastructure as Code (IaC) and automate the provisioning monitoring scaling and lifecycle management of NoSQL Streaming and Caching platforms (e.g. Cassandra Kafka Redis).
- Drive end-to-end automation to enable repeatable reliable and self-service deployment of data services across cloud and hybrid environments.
- Guarantee the platform data solutions are always available scalable and resilient.
- Define and enforce SLIs SLOs and error margins for data platforms to drive reliability engineering practices.
- Develop highly efficient self-repairing systems automated redundancy and scalability solutions for databases and streaming platforms.
- Develop observability solutions (metrics logging tracing) for Cassandra Redis and Kafka/MSK to ensure proactive issue detection.
- Collaborate with engineering and platform teams to deliver dependable scalable and high-performing data services.
- Lead incident response for critical database/caching/streaming issues and drive root cause analysis with permanent automated fixes.
- Explore and apply automation methods (e.g. anomaly detection predictive scaling automated remediation) to improve operational efficiency.
- Drive and implement guidelines procedures and operational playbooks to facilitate knowledge sharing and support continuous improvement across global teams.
- Mentor junior engineers and influence guidelines in automation distributed systems and database reliability.
Skills and Qualifications:
- Bachelors degree in Computer Science or a related field or relevant experience.
- 6 years of software development and SRE experience with at least 3 years specializing in Go and Infrastructure As Code with a focus on automation.
- Deep proficiency in Go (Golang) with the ability to write performant idiomatic and maintainable code for production-scale systems.
- Established track record crafting modular architecture-focused frameworks in Go supporting large and complex backend services.
- Expertise with infrastructure-as-code tools such as Terraform Ansible.
- Expertise in operations: scaling consistency tuning compaction repair and backup/recovery of databases.
- Familiarity with NoSQL caching and streaming platforms (e.g. Apache Kafka Redis AWS MSK).
- Solid understanding of Linux internals networking and storage systems.
- Experience with containerization and orchestration technologies such as Docker and Kubernetes.
- Cloud experience (AWS GCP or Azure) with knowledge of managed services (e.g. DynamoDB ElastiCache MSK or equivalent experience).
- Strong problem-solving and analytical skills with a passion for automation and distributed systems reliability.
- Excellent communication and collaboration skills with experience mentoring and influencing peers across diverse teams.
- Having worked with Go for infrastructure automation control plane services or SRE-focused tooling before is beneficial.
- Experience bringing to bear AI/ML on IAC and automation provisioning anomaly detection predictive scaling or intelligent incident response is a plus.
- Possessing certification in relevant technologies (e.g. AWS Certified Database - Specialty) is advantageous.
Why Join Us
At PlayStation we believe in encouraging a collaborative and inclusive environment where everyone can contribute to their fullest potential. Our team is composed of hard-working individuals who are dedicated to crafting memorable gaming experiences. Youll have the opportunity to work on world-class projects surrounded by passionate colleagues who encourage and support one another. Together we can achieve outstanding results and make a lasting impact on the gaming industry!
Our company values diversity and is an equal opportunity employer. We provide accommodations for individuals with disabilities.
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At SIE we consider several factors when setting each roles base pay range including the competitive benchmarking data for the market and geographic location.
Please note that the base pay range may vary in line with our hybrid working policy and individual base pay will be determined based on job-related factors which may include knowledge skills experience and location.
In addition this role is eligible for SIEs top-tier benefits package that includes medical dental vision matching 401(k) paid time off wellness program and coveted employee discounts for Sony products. This role also may be eligible for a bonus package. Clickhere to learn more.
The estimated base pay range for this role is listed below.
$177300 - $265900 USD
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.
Required Experience:
Senior IC
Employment Type
Full Time
