Sr. Software Engineer

PlayStation Global • San Diego, CA

40d

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.
The Accounts team is a seasoned team at SIE which interacts with various critical systems server side, client side and commerce related teams. Using state of the art technology, leveraging AWS services, we create high transaction, low latency systems that live at the heart of every module in platform engineering.
This is a fast paced, high-visibility engineering position within SIE’s platform engineering organization helping to establish a linear scale, highly available, fault-tolerant, globally distributed accounts services platform.
This next generation Accounts platform will support the fast growing SIE customer base on both world class PlayStation consoles, ,devices and PC platforms. This key role will lead the technology transformation of the accounts services platform including existing and new services to support the dramatic customer growth on the platform.
As a Senior Software Development Engineer in the team, you will design and develop highly scalable, distributed services, as well as collaborate with product managers, architects , engineers, and operations team members across playstation. This is a fast-paced environment that leverages lightweight SOA design patterns. We encourage innovation and expect developers to take a high level of ownership throughout the software life cycle.
If you are a strong developer with experience and interest in distributed systems, databases, performance and scalability, we'd like to talk to you.

Requirements

• BS or Master’s Degree in Engineering, Computer Science or equivalent experience
• 5+ years of experience in developing business critical software using Enterprise Java/J2EE, Web Services, REST, JSON/XML, expert level of object oriented programming analysis and design
• 2+ years’ experience developing with AWS native services such as EC2, EKS, S3, Kinesis, Glue, Lambda, SQS, SNS and DynamoDB
• Experience developing applications on Java Services on Linux platforms
• Experience with servlet containers (e.g., Tomcat, Reactor Netty), JAXRS, Spring, and related technologies
• Experience developing web services using JSON and XML
• Proficient in software development life cycle, including coding standards, code reviews, source control management, build processes, testing, and operations
• Demonstrated ability to take a project from initial scope out of requirements to launch
• Possess deep knowledge of computer science fundamentals such as object oriented design, data structures, algorithm design, problem solving, and complexity analysis.

Nice To Haves

• Prior experience working with Python is a plus
• Experience with micro service architecture.
• Experience creating UML artifacts (e.g., class, sequence, and component diagrams)
• Experience with AI driven development tools for code review and pipeline management
• Experience in requirements engineering, describing software product features, and technical designs.
• Experience with large scale account management systems with high throughput requirements
• Experience in deploying, operating, and managing services in AWS or other cloud environments.
• Asynchronous programming, Non-blocking I/O, Event-driven and backpressure handling
• Experience building high performance, active-active, linearly scalable production services (Enterprise Java/J2EE, or C++, Web Services, REST, SQL/NoSQL data layers)

Responsibilities

• design and develop highly scalable, distributed services
• collaborate with product managers, architects , engineers, and operations team members across playstation
• take a high level of ownership throughout the software life cycle

Benefits

• medical
• dental
• vision
• matching 401(k)
• paid time off
• wellness program
• employee discounts for Sony products
• bonus package

What This Job Offers

• Job Type: Full-time
• Career Level: Mid Level