Senior Software Engineer, ML Platform

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.

Senior Software Engineer ML Platform

United States Remote; United States San Diego CA; United States San Mateo CA

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.

Senior Software Engineer ML Platform - D2C - SPOC
Sony Interactive Entertainment (SIE) PlayStation San Diego CA

Who We Are
At Sony Interactive Entertainment (SIE) PlayStation we create unforgettable gaming experiencesand were equally dedicated to building a world-class team. As a leader in interactive entertainment PlayStation operates at massive scale supporting millions of players worldwide and processing billions of transactions annually across our digital ecosystem.

Our Store Publishing Operations & Commerce (SPOC) team is responsible for ensuring trust security and seamless transactions across PlayStations digital store. We provide data-driven solutions to support platform services customer experience payments fraud prevention and risk management. Using advanced analytics and machine learning/AI we help protect the commerce ecosystem facilitate business growth and optimize player experiences.

About the Role
This position is a hands-on engineering role with a broad range of responsibilities from evolving and supporting real-time machine learning/AI pipelines to building low-latency high-throughput systems. You should be well-versed in running applications at internet scale on modern cloud architectures (e.g. AWS). If youre a software engineer with a strong interest in large-scale machine learning projects experimentation automation or real-time risk mitigation wed love to connect with you.

Key Responsibilities

• Create Cloud Solutions: Design and implement cloud solutions using AWS to ensure high performance scalability and reliability.
• ML/AI Pipeline: Build and enhance ML/AI pipelines in partnership with Data Science to support automation experimentation continuous integration/delivery verification/validation and model monitoring.
• Core Infrastructure Development: Develop and maintain core infrastructure for data streaming and processing applying industry standards and innovative solutions.
• Service Availability: Guarantee high levels of service availability through being a part of an on-call rotation following best practices for disaster recovery and business continuity.
  
  
  

Qualifications and Education Requirements

• Educational Background: Bachelors degree with 5 years of related experience
• Coding Proficiency: Demonstrated experience building reliable software with Java or/and Python
• Cloud Competency: Proficiency with common AWS services (EKS/ECS Kinesis Lambda DynamoDB) or their cloud equivalent.
• Systems Monitoring and Analytics: Experience with systems monitoring alerting and analytics tools like Datadog Splunk or AWS CloudTrail
• Communication Skills: Strong communication skills to collaborate with multi-functional teams

Preferred Skills

• Streaming or SQL at scale: Hands-on with high-volume event pipelines (Kinesis/Kafka/ActiveMQ) and/or SQL over large datasets.
• Data Science & Machine Learning: Exposure to Data Science and Machine Learning

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