Data Platform Engineer
About The Position
Sony Interactive Entertainment (SIE) is seeking a Data Platform Engineer for its San Diego Studio, the maker of MLB The Show. This role involves building, maintaining, and evolving a cloud-based data platform on AWS and Databricks. The ideal candidate will have experience in DevOps, platform engineering, or cloud infrastructure and a desire to expand into Data Engineering. The engineer will collaborate with Data Engineering and Data Science teams to ensure reliable, secure, and scalable infrastructure, enhance platform operations, and contribute to data pipeline development and platform tooling. The interview process includes multiple virtual rounds, with a final onsite interview at the San Diego Studio.
Requirements
- 2+ years of experience in platform engineering, DevOps, cloud infrastructure, or related engineering roles.
- Hands-on experience with AWS services in production environments.
- Experience working with Databricks.
- Experience with CI/CD tools and workflows, such as GitHub Actions or Jenkins.
- Familiarity with AWS Cost Management tools, CloudWatch, CloudTrail, and related operational tooling.
- Understanding of security fundamentals, including IAM/RBAC, least privilege access, network controls, encryption, and secrets management.
- Strong communication and collaboration skills in a cross-functional environment.
- Interest in expanding into Data Engineering and supporting data-driven platforms.
Nice To Haves
- Proficiency in Python and SQL.
- Experience with AWS data services such as Glue, Kinesis, or Lambda.
- Exposure to Spark and distributed data processing.
- Experience developing or supporting data pipelines and ETL workflows.
Responsibilities
- Support administration of AWS services and Databricks environments.
- Maintain platform configurations, access controls, and security best practices.
- Assist with vendor and platform partner relationships.
- Contribute to monitoring, troubleshooting, operational support, and reliability improvements.
- Develop and maintain Infrastructure as Code using Terraform.
- Improve environment provisioning and configuration management across development and production environments.
- Support CI/CD workflows for infrastructure and platform deployments.
- Implement and maintain operational best practices for cloud infrastructure.
- Support development and maintenance of data pipelines and integrations using Python, Spark, SQL, and AWS services such as API Gateway, EC2, DynamoDB, and Glue.
- Assist with data quality validation, testing, code reviews, and documentation.
- Collaborate with Data Engineering and Data Science teams to support analytics, machine learning, and telemetry initiatives.
- Contribute to platform tooling and process improvements that increase team productivity and reliability.
- Support cloud cost management through resource tagging, budgeting, usage monitoring, and optimization efforts.
- Assist with rightsizing compute, storage, and workload configurations.
- Help identify opportunities to improve efficiency and reduce operational costs.
Benefits
- medical
- dental
- vision
- matching 401(k)
- paid time off
- wellness program
- employee discounts for Sony products
- bonus package
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What This Job Offers
Job Type
Full-time
Career Level
Mid Level
Education Level
No Education Listed
