Software Engineer I & II

PlayStation Global

53d

About The Position

Why PlayStation? PlayStation isn’t just the Best Place to Play — it’s also the Best Place to Work. Today, we’re recognized as a global leader in entertainment producing The PlayStation family of products and services including PlayStation®5, PlayStation®4, PlayStation®VR, PlayStation®Plus, 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 isn’t just the Best Place to Play — it’s also the Best Place to Work. Today, we’re recognized as a global leader in entertainment producing The PlayStation family of products and services including PlayStation®5, PlayStation®4, PlayStation®VR, PlayStation®Plus, 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. You will be a key member of our backend team and determine the core infrastructure of our next generation platforms and services to enhance our PlayStation ecosystem.

Requirements

BS/MS degree in Computer Science or relevant professional experience in lieu of a degree.
3+ years of building, maintaining, and enhancing backend services.
Experience developing and utilizing GraphQL in a production environment
Strong experience and usage with JavaScript / TypeScript, NodeJS
Well-versed knowledge of various cloud solutions offered by AWS (Redis, DynamoDB, S3, etc.)

Nice To Haves

Experience with development of RESTful and/or gRPC APIs
Experience with server optimizations, focusing on architecture that provides low latency and scalable solutions
Knowledge of industry-supported metrics capturing and monitoring solutions
Prior work with building and maintaining CI/CD pipeline solutions
Familiarity with writing and running load testing scripts with tooling such as K6
Knowledge of Server Side Rendering app technologies such as NextJS a bonus
Previous experience working within the agile development methodology and closely collaborating among various teams across an organization
Familiarity with other Server Side Languages

Responsibilities

Work among a dedicated platform level scrum team, building the future backend infrastructure that powers the PlayStation platform. You will collaborate not only within the scrum team, but work closely with an international team of client and backend developers.
Develop scalable and robust services built on top of NodeJS.
Submit, review, and address proposals submitted by cross team contributors that’ll help shape the overall architecture and organization of the platform.
Represent the team in technical forums, present designs, and share experiences with other Sony software development organizations.
Ensure accuracy and completeness through usage of unit tests for portions of code delivered
Ownership of the implementation and delivery of mid-size to large features. Create required documentation including low-level design. Communicate estimates, schedules, issues and dependencies to the team
Fix bugs and provide support for business and maintenance teams.