Staff Software Engineer – Data

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🇺🇸 United States – Remote

💵 $198.2k - $297.4k / year

⏰ Full Time

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🚰 Data Engineer

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Sony Interactive Entertainment

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10,000+ employees

Founded 1994

🎮 Gaming

🔧 Hardware

📡 Telecommunications

Gaming • Hardware • Telecommunications

Sony Interactive Entertainment is a prominent division of Sony Corporation responsible for the PlayStation brand and family of products and services. It designs, produces, and sells hardware and software for gaming consoles such as the PlayStation 5, PlayStation 4, and PlayStation VR2. Sony Interactive Entertainment also offers a range of digital services including PlayStation Plus, an online subscription service that provides access to a vast library of games and exclusive content. The company is heavily involved in the development and publishing of video games, offering popular titles like Horizon Forbidden West and Gran Turismo 7. Additionally, it supports indie game developers and hosts live competitive gaming events, contributing significantly to the gaming industry's ecosystem.

📋 Description

• Design, build, and operate large-scale distributed data systems powering real-time and near real-time analytics and data-driven applications across PlayStation • Lead the architecture and evolution of the Real-Time Analytics Platform’s stream processing and analytics platforms • Own platform capabilities end-to-end from architecture and implementation through production operations, performance optimization, reliability, and lifecycle management • Build and optimize distributed data services using Apache Flink, Spark Structured Streaming, ClickHouse, and Apache Druid • Integrate batch and streaming workloads using modern lakehouse architectures • Build AI-powered capabilities to automate engineering workflows, improve data quality, simplify platform operations, accelerate troubleshooting, and enhance developer productivity • Establish technical standards and engineering best practices for distributed systems, stream processing, data modeling, query optimization, and platform reliability • Mentor engineers through architecture, design, and code reviews • Partner with Product, Infrastructure, Security, Data Engineering, and Platform Engineering teams on technical strategy and scalable platform capabilities • Investigate and resolve complex production challenges and ensure high availability and operational excellence • Participate in production support and on-call rotation, lead incident response, conduct root-cause analysis, and implement reliability improvements • Evaluate emerging technologies and distributed data platforms and recommend investments • Lead roadmap initiatives, influence technical direction, and mentor engineers during the first 90 days

🎯 Requirements

• Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Engineering, or a related technical field, or equivalent practical experience • 8+ years of experience designing and building large-scale distributed systems, with expertise in real-time data processing, analytics, or data platform engineering • Strong proficiency in Python • Experience with Scala is beneficial for supporting and evolving existing platform components • Hands-on expertise designing and operating large-scale stream processing applications using Apache Flink, Apache Spark Structured Streaming, or equivalent distributed streaming technologies • Production experience designing, operating, and optimizing distributed analytics platforms using ClickHouse, Apache Druid, or equivalent high-performance OLAP/analytics databases • Experience with query optimization, data modeling, and performance tuning at scale • Experience building and consuming event-driven data pipelines using AWS MSK, Apache Kafka, or equivalent messaging platforms • Experience applying AI/ML techniques and modern AI tooling • Strong systems design skills across scalability, latency, throughput, consistency, reliability, and cost • Demonstrated technical leadership through architecture ownership, mentoring engineers, and influencing technical decisions across multiple teams • Background checks at the offer stage for all new employees

🏖️ Benefits

• Medical insurance • Dental insurance • Vision insurance • Matching 401(k) • Paid time off • Wellness program • Employee discounts for Sony products • Eligibility for a bonus package • Hybrid working policy