Manager, Software Engineering

PlayStation Global•San Mateo, CA

2h•$274,971 - $302,000•Hybrid

About The Position

Sony Interactive Entertainment LLC seeks a Manager, Software Engineering in San Mateo, California. The role leads delivery of common libraries targeting multiple projects and platforms and owns the technical roadmap. Telecommuting and/or working from home may be permissible pursuant to company policies.

Requirements

A master’s degree in Computer Engineering, Electronic Engineering, or a related field, or equivalent.
Two years of experience working with development teams and improving services and infrastructure as part of root cause analysis and incident resolution.
Experience creating and enhancing automation to ensure systems are deployed.
Experience enhancing infrastructure and enabling auto-scaling in response to increasing network traffic or storage pressure.
Experience working with teams to implement requirements for a Pub-Sub system using Kafka.
Experience setting up and maintaining application monitoring using Splunk and Yamas.
Experience setting up Splunk dashboards that read from a local metric exporter and provide visibility into cluster state.
Experience leading projects to develop tools based on user requirements and usage, with the goal of reducing engineering troubleshooting time and improving infrastructure visibility.
Experience using Chef, Screwdriver v2/v3, Jenkins, Pogo, Artifactory, and Git.
Experience working with high-volume, highly available messaging clusters, including Kafka and Zookeeper, Hashicorp Consul, Kubernetes, Jenkins, package management, Splunk, monitoring systems, and certificate and identity management systems.

Responsibilities

Lead delivery of common libraries targeting multiple projects across multiple platforms.
Own the technical roadmap.
Work with development teams to improve services and infrastructure through root cause analysis and incident resolution.
Create and enhance automation to ensure systems are deployed.
Enhance infrastructure and enable auto-scaling in response to increased network traffic or storage pressure.
Work with teams to implement requirements for a Pub-Sub system using Kafka.
Set up and maintain application monitoring using Splunk and Yamas.
Set up Splunk dashboards that read from a local metric exporter and provide quick visibility into cluster state.
Lead development of tools based on user requirements and usage to reduce engineers’ troubleshooting time and improve infrastructure visibility.