Product Analytics Engineer

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.

Our team is looking for a Product Analytics Engineer to join our engineering team and help us build products that are not only delightful but measurable insightful and continuously this role youll be embedded directly in a software engineering team responsible for building applications and backend services that provide personalized content to our PlayStation customers. You will play a critical role in improving our instrumentation shaping measurement strategies and working with data partners to ensure that what we build can be meaningfully analyzed and optimized.

This role will be based out of Dublin Ireland working closely with our many other teams and individuals who support Personalization out of the UK and North America.

Responsibilities

• Implement event instrumentation across backend & frontend services to capture critical user and product signals.
• Contribute to event schemas logging standards and integration specs that ensure consistent high-quality data collection.
• Align with engineers product managers and data scientists on KPIs metric definitions and experiment tracking plans.
• Validate data quality and interpretability confirming that the events your services emit are analytics-ready.
• Build or refine lightweight data pipelines/transformations that convert raw events into usable datasets.
• Contribute to A/B-test instrumentation tracking setup and initial data validation to enable rigorous experimentation.
• Assist analysis of experiment results with the established playbook and present clear actionable insights to stakeholders.
• Provide ad-hoc analytics support for business product and engineering questions using available data assets.
• Surface the datasets required to evaluate ML models and content strategy performance flagging gaps and ensuring coverage.
• Contribute to attribution & forecasting frameworks and champion a data-driven culture across the Personalization domain.

Requirements

• Quantitative degree or equivalent experience in Statistics Computer/Data Science Mathematics Analytics or related field.
• 2-3 years in analytics-driven roles (data analytics/engineering/science or software engineering) within consumer-facing product environments.
• SQL plus coding proficiency in languages like Python Java or TypeScript.
• Exposure to large datasets & complex queries aware of needs to adjust for performance and reliability.
• Experience with event/logging pipelines (Kafka Kinesis Datadog OpenTelemetry) and product-analytics platforms (Amplitude Mixpanel Adobe Analytics).
• Proven cross-functional collaborator with engineering product and data-science teams.
• Contributor to shared event taxonomies and schemas with deep understanding of retention conversion engagement metrics.
• Demonstrated curiosity and continuous-learning mindset.

Bonus Requirements

• Data-visualization expertise with tools such as Tableau Power BI or a similar platform for building clear dashboards and storytelling visuals.
• Domain knowledge in personalization or e-commerce metrics understanding how ranking targeting and conversion KPIs are defined and optimized.
• Hands-on experience with A/B-testing frameworks and statistical evaluation methods including experiment design power analysis and result interpretation.
• Experience working in client-side JavaScript/TypeScript codebasesusing modern frameworks (e.g. React) and standard web technologiesto make incremental updates integrations and quality-of-life improvements.

Why Join Us

Youll be part of a fast-paced collaborative environment where your work will directly influence how we build measure and improve our products. Youll act as a key bridge between engineering execution and data-driven decision-making ensuring the things we build are not only impactful -- but provably so.

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