Software Engineering Manager

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.

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 PlayStationPlus and 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 Corporation.

Software Engineering Manager (Backend)

San Mateo CA

PlayStation is building the future of connected gaming experiences through a unified platform powering services and experiences across consoles clients and the cloud. We are looking for a Software Engineering Manager to lead our Platform Engineering teamdriving adoption stability and innovation that impacts developers and players worldwide.

Responsibilities

• Lead and grow a dedicated platform engineering team (610 engineers) ensuring delivery on roadmaps that prioritize resilience developer velocity and global scalability.
  

• Evangelize the platform strategy across PlayStation by partnering closely with engineering leaders across service and client teams to align on integration adoption and long-term technical direction.
  

• Maintain accountability for platform healthensuring services are highly available cost-efficient and observablewhile establishing standards for platform-wide operations.
  

• Collaborate with global teams across San Mateo Tokyo London and more to drive consistent adoption and integration of platform services.
  

• Partner with leadership and stakeholders to translate strategic priorities into executable technical roadmaps that advance the PlayStation ecosystem.
  

• Mentor and coach engineers to grow their careers fostering a culture of technical excellence inclusivity and innovation.
  

• Drive continuous improvement in developer tooling CI/CD pipelines service performance and observability to accelerate the developer experience.
  

Required Qualifications

• BS/MS in Computer Science or equivalent professional experience with 8 years of overall experience in the software engineering domain.
  

• Proven experience leading backend/platform teams in production environments with a track record of building resilient and scalable systems.
  

• 3 years of experience designing building and operating backend services (RESTful and/or GraphQL) at scale.
  

• Strong understanding of AWS primitives (e.g. DynamoDB Redis S3 Lambda ECS/EKS) and cost-optimization strategies.
  

• Demonstrated success in coaching and mentoring engineers balancing delivery with individual growth.
  

Desired Qualifications

• Experience building developer platforms and driving adoption across diverse engineering teams.
  

• Deep knowledge of GraphQL including schema design federation and service adoption patterns.
  

• Familiarity with CI/CD pipelines service observability (metrics logging tracing) and production incident management.
  

• Background in low-latency high-scale service architecture and server performance optimization.
  

• Experience with JavaScript/TypeScript or similar backend frameworks; familiarity with frontend integration (e.g. ) is a plus.
  

Prior experience working in globally distributed teams and influencing technical direction across org boundaries

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 or maternity 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.

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.