Software Engineer II- Data Platform

Hybrid: San Diego

Do you want to join a team of talented engineers dedicated to enhancing the PlayStation experience for millions of users and creators? As part of our Data Platform team, you will play a key role in building cutting-edge systems that power PlayStation’s data-driven features, delivering impactful insights and enabling seamless, interactive experiences!

The Software Engineers within our Platform Engineering Group design, build, document, and deploy large-scale data platforms that optimize performance and scalability across PlayStation systems. You will work on solving complex data challenges, improving platform capabilities, and ensuring high availability, all while supporting a dynamic, interactive environment for PlayStation users.

We’re looking for someone who is passionate about building innovative data platforms that scale to millions of users, collaborating across Engineering and Product teams in an agile environment. You’ll have the opportunity to work with the latest technologies, tools, and processes, helping to drive forward our technical and architectural goals.

Responsibilities

• Contribute to the development, testing, and deployment of high-quality code across the data platform

• Collaborate actively with global teams across multiple time zones, ensuring alignment and continuity

• Support platform capabilities for data cataloging, analytics, and ETL/ELT pipelines

• Assist in identifying performance bottlenecks and implementing improvements with guidance from senior engineers

• Build and support services that handle structured, semi-structured, and unstructured data (audio, video, text, images)

• Participate in on-call rotation for production support and help troubleshoot critical issues

• Contribute to platform documentation and maintain clarity for internal consumers

• Present work in team demos and represent engineering contributions in internal discussions

• Follow best practices in testing, monitoring, and deployment to ensure platform reliability

• Continuously learn and apply new tools, patterns, and technologies in the data platform space

Requirements

• 3+ years of experience developing scalable, distributed systems

• Proficient in at least one language: Scala, Java, or Python

• Experience building or maintaining cloud-based applications/services (AWS preferred, GCP is a plus)

• Exposure to event streaming platforms such as Kafka, Kinesis, or SQS and Data Ingestion

• Familiarity with distributed data processing frameworks like Apache Spark or Apache Flink

• Understanding of CI/CD pipelines, monitoring, and observability best practices

• Comfortable working in a globally distributed team

• Willingness to participate in production on-call rotations

Nice to Have

• Exposure to Databricks or similar unified data platforms

• Experience working with unstructured data formats such as images, video, or audio

• Familiarity with data cataloging, lineage, and metadata tools

• Experience supporting platform-scale features such as ETL frameworks, analytics services, or data quality checks

• Knowledge of GCP or multi-cloud environments

• Curiosity and enthusiasm for tackling scalability and reliability challenges

Your First 90 Days

• 30 Days: Ramp up on our tech stack, development tools, and team workflows. Deliver your first minor enhancement or bug fix and sync with global peers.

• 60 Days: Begin contributing to core platform features. Participate in code/design reviews and propose improvements.

• 90 Days: Own medium-scope features end-to-end. Engage in roadmap discussions and build strong cross-functional relationships with global stakeholders.

Senior Software Engineer (Frontend), Social

Location: San Diego, CA (Rancho Bernardo)

The Senior Software Engineer will design and develop PlayStation features on the PS5, mobile, and other supported platforms. They will provide strong technical knowledge, experience, and implementation efforts across a set of client applications. The ideal candidate will come from a strong object-oriented development background and be passionate about client applications and web technologies.

Role Responsibilities

• Architect and develop complex projects across multiple teams and fields to deliver new and innovative features.
• Develop and maintain high quality front-end applications using React Native, ensuring they are production-ready and meet performance standards.
• Extremely proactive and independent, communicating with all relevant stakeholders on plans, schedules, and deliverables.
• Create and deploy adaptable UI elements for multiple platforms, emphasizing scalability and ease of maintenance, while incorporating architectural frameworks such as MVC, MVVM, and MVP.
• Collaborate with Product Owners, Product Managers, and Designers to understand feature requirements, define technical requirements, and develop new features.
• Will have ownership of technology, common shareable features across a large project or on several small projects.
• Produce excellent, thorough design, architecture, and development documentation.

•       Focus on quality and strive to improve processes, propose standard methodologies, and drive their usage within the teams.
•       Partner with QA engineers to ensure test coverage and verify test plans that help deliver high quality features.
•       Write unit tests and component tests for features with key characteristics of stability and maintainability that prevent regressions in the product code.
•       Efficiently debug issues raised by internal and external users and work with the team to provide resolutions to these issues.
•       Support and mentor other team members and provide technical leadership by reviewing pull requests, design plans, and participate in architectural discussions.
•       Communicate on development strategy, technical subjects related to software development frameworks and collaborate effectively with the globally distributed teams to achieve business goals.
•       Ability to understand, discuss and improve specifications to enhance the overall experience for players and game studio partners.

Required Qualifications

• Must relocate to Los Angeles, Orange County, or San Diego area.
• Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science or equivalent. 
• 5+ years of solid programming experience in end-to-end development using HTML, CSS, JavaScript, Node.js, React and React Native.
• Expert level knowledge of object-oriented design and design patterns, and passionate about writing high-quality and well-architected code.
• Collaborated on cloud-deployed services hosting APIs and backend processes talking to data storage and caching layers, event buses, and other services.
• Strong understanding of engineering best practices – requirement gathering and analysis, design and develop secure and scalable code with unit tests, partake in code reviews and documentation; experience with open source-based technology stack.
• Ability to oversee periodic on-call duty as well as out-of-band requests.

Preferred Qualifications:

• Several years of experience in working with C++ and C# on multi-threaded applications.
• Strong independent problem-solving skills.
• Excellent written and verbal communication skills in a team environment.
• Proven ability to learn quickly and tackle new challenges.
• Works independently with strong work ethic to deliver on critical timelines.
• Able to work quickly and efficiently in a challenging environment.
• A passion for gaming and a proven record of delivering the best possible experiences to players and game partners.

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.

Basic Requirements:

• Bachelor's Degree 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

• Prior experience working with Python is a plus

• 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.

Preferred Qualifications:

• 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)

Software Engineer II (Frontend), Social  

Rancho Bernardo, CA
Must relocate to Los Angeles, Orange County, or San Diego area.

The Software Engineer II role will design and develop solutions for PlayStation features on the PS5, mobile, and other supported platforms. They will provide strong technical knowledge, experience, and implementation efforts across all supported platforms. The ideal candidate will come from a strong object-oriented development background and be passionate about client applications and web technologies.

Responsibilities:

• Build and develop complex projects across mobile, console, and supported platforms, enhancing efficiency and collaboration.
• Develop and maintain high-quality front-end applications using React Native, ensuring they are production-ready and meet performance standards.
• Create and deploy adaptable UI elements for multiple platforms, emphasizing scalability and ease of maintenance, while incorporating architectural frameworks such as MVC, MVVM, and MVP.
• Develop unit and integration tests and conduct code reviews to ensure high-quality code and seamless functionality.
• Maintain clear, concise documentation of system architecture, codebase, and development processes.
• Develop using Agile methodologies such as Scrum to deliver iterative improvements and achieve breakthroughs.
• Collaborate closely with international teams of UI designers and product managers (USA, Japan, UK) to translate requirements into actionable work packages, creating engaging mobile user experiences.
• Represent the team in technical forums by presenting designs, sharing knowledge, and contributing insights to other Sony software development groups.

Required Qualifications:

• Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science or equivalent.
• Genuine passion for crafting seamless, intuitive user experiences that prioritize usability and performance.
• 2+ years of experience crafting single-page web applications or mobile applications.
• Hands-on experience with modern JavaScript frameworks such as React/React Native, Angular, or similar technologies to build flexible interfaces and engaging applications.
• Proficient knowledge of mobile environments, structures, and advancements in iOS and Android programming, including emerging innovations.
• Strong analytical and problem-solving skills, emphasizing effective and scalable solutions.
• Excellent verbal and written communication skills, with an ability to collaborate effectively in a team environment.
• Experience collaborating on cloud-deployed services that host APIs and backend processes interacting with data storage and caching layers, event buses, and other services.

Desired Qualifications:

• Proven experience with Agile development methodologies, such as Scrum.
• Proven skill in evaluating and improving UI and application performance, with a focus on UI response time and network optimization.
• Skilled in developing multi-threaded applications with a deep understanding of concurrency and synchronization.
• Experience in working with C++ and C# on multi-threaded applications.
• Proficiency in designing and implementing GraphQL APIs.
• Experience with cloud services and serverless architectures.
• Familiarity with CI/CD pipelines and automated deployment processes.
• Prior experience with system monitoring, performance tuning, and debugging in production environments.

Staff Site Reliability Engineer

San Diego, CA

As a key leader of the Commerce - Technical Operations team, you will help drive the availability and enablement for PlayStation Store, Catalog, Entitlement, Pricing and Device Management platforms. You will partner closely with product engineering teams to deliver innovative player features and elevate operational excellence for millions of players worldwide.

Responsibilities:

Your responsibilities will include hands-on application management within a public cloud environment, ensuring availability, resiliency, scalability and performance. You will work side by side with our service development teams to develop, automate and ensure the production readiness of all new services and features introduced.

• Review and influence service architecture and system design to improve resiliency, fault tolerance, and scalability. Establish and promote best practices across engineering teams.
• Own and evolve Infrastructure-as-Code for managed services (AWS, GCP). Design and build scalable, reusable modules and automation that standardize provisioning, configuration, and operations
• Improve and develop production-grade automation, and tooling to improve measureable outcomes in operational process, manual toil, MTTx reduction, etc.
• Increase observability across the platform by implementing robust monitoring, logging, and tracing patterns. Build actionable dashboards and define meaningful alerting strategies that reduce MTTD and MTTR while minimizing noise.
• Leverage service telemetry and historical data to anticipate capacity needs, detect anomalous behavior, and proactively prevent incidents. Develop data-informed approaches to performance optimization and reliability engineering.
• Lead performance and capacity planning initiatives. Apply cloud-native patterns (e.g., auto-scaling, spot capacity, container orchestration with EKS) to optimize cost, performance, and availability at scale.
• Contribute code to shared repositories and platform components improving reliability, scalability, and maintainability.
• Collaborate across SIE with a variety of engineering, product, security and PMO teams to drive reliability improvements and ensure consistent operational standards across PlayStation services.
• Contribute to and help evolve reliability engineering practices, including SLIs/SLOs, error budgets, and operational readiness standards.
• Provide rotational on-call support, including incident detection, triage, and resolution for production systems, with a focus on continuous improvement of system reliability.
• Lead post-incident reviews, producing clear root cause analyses and driving follow-through on corrective and preventative actions across teams.

Qualifications:

• BS degree in Computer Science, Engineering, or related technical subject area.
• 7+ years hands-on AWS experience – integrating, developing and managing applications
• 10+ years of relevant SRE or operational work experience supporting a high-volume and/or critical production, software environment
• 10+ years of hands on software engineering or systems engineering experience (Java and/or React services)
• 5+ years of experience with building automation into daily operational processes through one or more programming languages (preferably Python or Go).
• Hands-on experience using modern AI engineering technologies, including LLM models, MCP-based integrations, and agentic workflow patterns, to improve SRE Operations.
• Strong experience in configuring, tuning and automating operational responsibilities for AWS managed data services including RDS, DynamoDB and Elasticache
• Experience with monitoring and log management tools (ie: DataDog, CloudWatch, Grafana, Splunk)
• Experience with container technologies and orchestration (ie: Docker, Kubernetes, EKS)
• Hands-on experience in triaging and tuning Java cloud applications with integration into AWS
• Solid understanding of AWS networking systems and protocols (ie: ALB, R53, API-Gateway, TCP/IP, HTTP/HTTPS, DNS)
• Experience with developing or support Continuous Integration and Continuous Delivery/Deployment pipelines (CI/CD)
• Excellent leadership presence, verbal and written communication

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Role Overview

The Director, People Technology Services (PTS), is responsible for leading the delivery, operations, and continuous evolution of SIE’s core People systems landscape, including Workday, Greenhouse, Beeline, Absorb, and associated platforms.

Reporting to the Senior Director, People Technology Services, this role directs a broad functional area through multiple managers and is accountable for the performance, quality, and outcomes of People Technology services globally. The Director ensures reliable, secure, and high-quality delivery to People Operations, Talent Enablement, and business stakeholders, while translating enterprise and functional strategy into an executable and sustainable technology roadmap.

This leader will bring clarity, structure, and disciplined execution to an evolving organization, strengthening service delivery while advancing a more intentional, product-oriented operating model.

Key Responsibilities

Functional Leadership & Accountability

• Direct and develop multiple functional areas within PTS through subordinate managers, including Workday platform delivery, recruiting systems (Greenhouse), contingent workforce systems (Beeline), learning platforms (Absorb), and service delivery operations.

• Hold end-to-end accountability for service performance, including delivery quality, platform stability, SLA adherence, and stakeholder satisfaction.

• Make final decisions on operational priorities, tradeoffs, and execution within the People Technology portfolio.

Service Delivery & Operational Excellence

• Establish and enforce operating mechanisms for intake, prioritization, Agile delivery, release management, and incident response.

• Drive measurable improvements in service quality, case management efficiency, and overall employee experience.

• Ensure systems and processes meet global regulatory, data privacy, and security requirements.

Platform Roadmap & Solution Leadership

• Translate People & Places strategy into a clear, sequenced People Technology roadmap aligned with enterprise architecture and business priorities.

• Partner with stakeholders to define solutions that balance business value, technical feasibility, and long-term sustainability.

• Leverage deep understanding of HR processes and platform capabilities to guide solution design, adoption, and evolution.

• Promote simplification, standardization, and automation, including the responsible use of AI and advanced analytics.

Stakeholder Engagement & Consulting Leadership

• Serve as a trusted advisor to People Operations, Talent, and cross-functional leaders, providing both strategic perspective and practical solution guidance.

• Lead structured engagement with stakeholders to understand business needs, shape demand, and align on priorities and outcomes.

• Communicate clearly across all levels, translating complex technical concepts into actionable business insights.

• Build credibility through consistent delivery, informed recommendations, and transparent decision-making.

People Leadership & Organizational Development

• Lead, coach, and develop a global team of managers and senior specialists, establishing clear accountability and performance expectations.

• Build a culture of ownership, curiosity, continuous learning, and disciplined execution.

• Ensure appropriate capability coverage across functional and technical domains, addressing gaps through hiring, development, and role clarity.

Financial & Resource Management

• Own planning, staffing, and resource allocation across the PTS function, ensuring alignment to business priorities and demand.

• Manage budget and vendor spend within the People Technology portfolio, driving cost discipline and value realization.

• Oversee third-party vendors and AMS relationships, ensuring performance, quality, and contractual outcomes are met.

Governance & Continuous Improvement

• Ensure adherence to established governance, architectural standards, and delivery practices.

• Contribute to the evolution of operating models, processes, and service frameworks in partnership with senior leadership.

• Identify and address systemic issues, driving continuous improvement across platforms and services.

Qualifications

• 12+ years of experience in HR Technology, HRIS, or enterprise platform delivery.

• 5+ years of experience managing managers and leading distributed, global teams.

• Deep expertise in Workday across multiple domains, with strong understanding of HR processes and system architecture.

• Demonstrated experience leading enterprise-scale HR system delivery, transformation, or platform evolution.

• Proven ability to influence stakeholders across functions and levels in a complex, matrixed organization.

• Experience establishing delivery frameworks, service models, or product-oriented operating approaches.

• Strong understanding of data privacy, security, and compliance considerations in global HR systems.

Preferred Qualifications

• Experience leading a consulting, solution architecture, or product management function within HR technology.

• Broad exposure across HR domains including recruiting, learning, talent, and workforce management systems.

• Experience with Agile delivery models and service management frameworks.

• Familiarity with AI-enabled HR solutions, automation, and digital workflow tools.

Leadership Profile

• Operates with a systems mindset, balancing immediate delivery needs with long-term sustainability

• Brings structure, clarity, and accountability to complex environments

• Comfortable making decisions and owning outcomes in ambiguous situations

• Influences through credibility, insight, and relationship-building rather than authority alone

• Combines strategic thinking with practical execution and follow-through

Do you want to help bring PlayStation technology to a worldwide audience? Are you passionate about securing infrastructure that constantly pushes the boundary of the gaming industry? Are you ready to work with innovative technology, forward-thinking engineers, and a passionate security team? If so, join us!

The role is a senior-level application security position combining strong technical expertise with leadership, initiative, and collaboration. You will provide strategic mentorship and hands-on support in designing, implementing, and testing secure solutions that strengthen PlayStation products and services.

As a technical leader within Product Security, you’ll guide practices and influence multiple teams to embed security throughout the software development lifecycle.

Key Responsibilities

• Lead security initiatives across the SDLC and improve development practices through scalable automation.

• Conduct and guide threat modeling and security requirements early in design phases.

• Partner with developers, architects, and product managers to align business goals with security needs.

• Lead security architecture and code reviews for distributed systems.

• Perform hands-on testing to identify risks and drive remediation with vulnerability and incident response teams.

• Advance the Product Security strategy through multi-functional initiatives and cultural influence.

• Balance business and security risks through technically grounded, pragmatic recommendations.

• Translate lessons learned into reusable organizational assets that enhance overall security posture.

• Mentor engineers and practitioners, promoting secure-by-default thinking and shared accountability.

• Demonstrate proactive leadership, coordinating teams to deliver measurable security and business impact.

Qualifications

• 7+ years in information security and 3+ years in software development.

• Bachelor’s degree or equivalent in Computer Science, Information Security, or related field.

• Effective communication and leadership abilities; capable of influencing technical and non-technical collaborators including management.

• Dedicated and proactive, finding opportunities and leading initiatives independently.

• Deep understanding of enterprise and cloud-native architectures and their secure design.

• Expertise in network and web protocols (TCP/IP, TLS, HTTPS, OAuth 2.0, OpenID Connect) and common attack vectors.

• Proven expertise in guiding security development and code evaluations and providing actionable, risk-based recommendations.

• Skilled in multiple programming languages (e.g., Java, C/C++, JavaScript, Python) and mitigating vulnerabilities such as OWASP Top 10.

• Experience integrating SAST, DAST, and dependency scanning into CI/CD pipelines.

• Familiar with Agile, DevOps, and modern delivery practices.

• Hands-on experience with cloud technologies (AWS, Azure, GCP, Kubernetes, service mesh, CDN) including secure configuration and identity management.

Desired Experience

• Strong analytical and problem-solving skills with an attacker perspective — able to anticipate and simulate real-world attacks.

• Experience in penetration testing, automated testing, or testing frameworks (JUnit, pytest, REST Assured, Playwright).

• Security certifications preferred (GIAC, OSCP, CEH, CISSP, CCSP, or equivalent).

Software Engineer II, Backend

San Diego, CA

Primary Responsibilities:

• You will provide strong technical abilities in cloud-based software development and highly scalable API designs
• Design, implement and maintain RESTful Web Services API and algorithms
• Produce excellent, detailed design and development documentation
• Work with team members to deliver features on time, respond to evolving requirements, and strategic shifts in direction
• Familiar and comfortable with Agile/Scrum software development methodology

 Qualifications:

•  2-5 years of proven programming experience in Java (or equivalent enterprise back-end) developing server-side applications, object-oriented design and design patterns, and passionate about writing high-quality and well-architected code
• Experience in building high-performance and cloud-based scalable web services
• Experience implementing services backed by SQL and NoSQL data stores
• Strong understanding of engineering standard methodologies – requirement gathering and analysis, design and develop secure and scalable code with unit tests, participate in code reviews and documentation, experience with multiple technology stacks
• Ability to balance periodic on-call duty, and defensive engineering to minimize impact
• Strong written and verbal communication skills
• Experience with Amazon Web Services and cloud architecture
• Knowledge of DevOps practices, containerization, Docker/Kubernetes

We are looking for an inspirational and hardworking person to join the Platform Hosting Cloud Security Engineering team at SIE! You'll be joining a team of innovative engineers who are unified in their mission to make PlayStation the best and most secure gaming platform. This support is fulfilled by minimizing impact to the platform while ensuring security needs are met. This role is highly technical and requires a shown grasp of security principles and how they are applied to production environments. You will assist in the planning, building, development, testing, and management of security tools and processes that provide protection and visibility of our cloud environments.

Key Responsibilities

Service Mesh & API Security

• Deep expertise with service mesh architectures (e.g., Istio, Kong), to enable secure & reliable east-west service communication

• Extensive experience managing and configuring API gateways (e.g. Kong, Amazon API Gateway) for internal and external services, including:

• Authentication and authorization through OIDC, OAuth2, JWT, and mTLS

• Secure API exposure and traffic governance

Certificates & mTLS Management

• Strong experience managing PKI and certificate lifecycles, including issuance, rotation, and revocation

• Practical experience deploying and managing mTLS within distributed systems and Kubernetes workloads

• Experience integrating certificate authorities (CAs) and automating certificate management (e.g., cert-manager or similar tools)

• Understanding of trust models and certificate chain validation in zero-trust environments

Security Hardening & Zero Trust

• Strong background in security hardening and zero-trust architecture, including:

• Enforcing default mTLS across workloads

• Carrying out infrastructure-level authentication and authorization

• Crafting and maintaining fine-grained access control policies

• Experience building and maintaining zero-trust security models across multi-cluster or distributed systems

• Write and detail security policies and practices with clear, practical mentorship to ensure understanding and effective implementation

Kubernetes Security & Access Control

• Strong experience securing Kubernetes environments, including:

• Implementing namespace isolation and protection strategies

• Crafting and enforcing access controls and policies

• Managing service accounts and workload identities securely

• Familiarity with Kubernetes security guidelines, including least privilege access, network policies, and workload segmentation

Qualifications

Technical Skills & Platform Experience

• Bachelor's degree or equivalent experience required

• Proficiency in scripting and programming languages such as Python and Go

• Demonstrated experience applying and upholding security governance frameworks, including security policy enforcement and compliance controls

• Hands-on experience working with multi-cloud environments, particularly AWS and GCP

• Strong experience with Kubernetes and containerized environments

• Build, and implement security controls and frameworks

• Experience implementing security guidelines (mTLS, OAuth2, JWT, RBAC, ABAC)

• Detect security gaps, and lead efforts to mature security tooling and operational processes

• Work closely with product and platform teams to define system requirements, engineer, and implement cloud based security applications and controls

• Write code to automate security processes which seamlessly integrate into code builds and deployments, applying DevSecOps processes and tools

• Develop, and deploy automation solutions that help audit, secure, and affect changes across multi-cloud environments

• Reviewing tools for improving platform availability using automated protection mechanisms

• Experience with monitoring and observability tools (Grafana, Datadog)

• Research and recommend new technologies and collaborates on solutions

• Excellent written and oral communication skills. Strong social skills include the ability to articulate to both technical and non-technical audiences. Also, strong analytical and problem-solving skills.

• Technical certifications or other demonstrations of passion in security and technology such as CISSP, CCSP are a plus!

We are looking for an inspirational and hardworking person to join the Platform Hosting Cloud Security Engineering team at SIE! You'll be joining a team of innovative engineers who are unified in their mission to make PlayStation the best and most secure gaming platform. This support is fulfilled by minimizing impact to the platform while ensuring security needs are met. This role is highly technical and requires a shown grasp of security principles and how they are applied to production environments. You will assist in the planning, building, development, testing, and management of security tools and processes that provide protection and visibility of our cloud environments.

Key Responsibilities

Service Mesh & API Security

• Deep expertise with service mesh architectures (e.g., Istio, Kong), to enable secure & reliable east-west service communication

• Extensive experience managing and configuring API gateways (e.g. Kong, Amazon API Gateway) for internal and external services, including:

• Authentication and authorization through OIDC, OAuth2, JWT, and mTLS

• Secure API exposure and traffic governance

Certificates & mTLS Management

• Strong experience managing PKI and certificate lifecycles, including issuance, rotation, and revocation

• Practical experience deploying and managing mTLS within distributed systems and Kubernetes workloads

• Experience integrating certificate authorities (CAs) and automating certificate management (e.g., cert-manager or similar tools)

• Understanding of trust models and certificate chain validation in zero-trust environments

Security Hardening & Zero Trust

• Strong background in security hardening and zero-trust architecture, including:

• Enforcing default mTLS across workloads

• Carrying out infrastructure-level authentication and authorization

• Crafting and maintaining fine-grained access control policies

• Experience building and maintaining zero-trust security models across multi-cluster or distributed systems

• Write and detail security policies and practices with clear, practical mentorship to ensure understanding and effective implementation

Kubernetes Security & Access Control

• Strong experience securing Kubernetes environments, including:

• Implementing namespace isolation and protection strategies

• Crafting and enforcing access controls and policies

• Managing service accounts and workload identities securely

• Familiarity with Kubernetes security guidelines, including least privilege access, network policies, and workload segmentation

Qualifications

Technical Skills & Platform Experience

• Bachelor's degree or equivalent experience required

• Proficiency in scripting and programming languages such as Python and Go

• Demonstrated experience applying and upholding security governance frameworks, including security policy enforcement and compliance controls

• Hands-on experience working with multi-cloud environments, particularly AWS and GCP

• Strong experience with Kubernetes and containerized environments

• Build, and implement security controls and frameworks

• Experience implementing security guidelines (mTLS, OAuth2, JWT, RBAC, ABAC)

• Detect security gaps, and lead efforts to mature security tooling and operational processes

• Work closely with product and platform teams to define system requirements, engineer, and implement cloud based security applications and controls

• Write code to automate security processes which seamlessly integrate into code builds and deployments, applying DevSecOps processes and tools

• Develop, and deploy automation solutions that help audit, secure, and affect changes across multi-cloud environments

• Reviewing tools for improving platform availability using automated protection mechanisms

• Experience with monitoring and observability tools (Grafana, Datadog)

• Research and recommend new technologies and collaborates on solutions

• Excellent written and oral communication skills. Strong social skills include the ability to articulate to both technical and non-technical audiences. Also, strong analytical and problem-solving skills.

• Technical certifications or other demonstrations of passion in security and technology such as CISSP, CCSP are a plus!

Principal, Vendor Insights & Operations                                

San Diego, CA

Overview

This Principal-level role is responsible for shaping and driving enterprise vendor insights, commercial optimization, and One Sony initiatives across Sony Interactive Entertainment and, where appropriate, the wider Sony Group.

The Principal, Vendor Insights & Operations focuses on identifying opportunities to maximize value from strategic vendors, including contract consolidation, cross-OpCo leverage, and improved commercial outcomes. The role synthesizes vendor spend, utilization, contract structures, and performance data into executive-level insights that inform vendor strategy, investment decisions, and negotiation posture.

Operating as a senior individual contributor and trusted advisor, this role partners closely with vendor owners, procurement, finance, corporate planning, and Sony Group stakeholders to influence decision-making in complex, matrixed environments. The emphasis is on enterprise value creation and strategic alignment, rather than day-to-day vendor management.

This role leads enterprise-level vendor value and insight initiatives, partnering closely with vendor management and vendor performance teams who retain ownership of day-to-day vendor execution, SLA management, and operational performance oversight.

Key Responsibilities:

• One Sony Initiatives & Strategic Vendor Value
• Identify, shape, and drive One Sony initiatives related to strategic vendors, including opportunities for contract consolidation, commercial leverage, and standardization across operating companies
• Act as a senior SIE representative in cross-OpCo discussions with Sony Group Corp, Sony Corp America, and other Sony operating companies
• Assess enterprise-wide vendor relationships to identify opportunities to maximize value, reduce duplication, and improve commercial terms
• Support strategic vendor negotiations by providing insight-led analysis and recommendations grounded in spend, utilization, and performance data

Contract Consolidation & Commercial Insights

• Analyze vendor contracts, spend patterns, and engagement models across SIE to identify consolidation opportunities and value leakage
• Partner with procurement and vendor owners to inform renewal, renegotiation, and consolidation strategies
• Develop structured insight packs to support executive decision-making related to vendor strategy, investment prioritization, and risk management
• Translate complex commercial and operational data into clear, actionable insights for senior stakeholders

Vendor Performance Insights & Executive Reporting

• Define standards for strategic vendor insight reporting, leveraging KPI, SLA, utilization, and financial data
• Synthesize vendor performance outputs into enterprise-level insights, focusing on value, risk, and commercial leverage
• Ensure performance insights inform One Sony initiatives, consolidation strategies, and negotiation posture.
• This role does not own operational KPI/SLA monitoring or vendor escalations, which remain the responsibility of vendor performance owners.

Senior Stakeholder Influence & Thought Leadership

• Operate as a trusted advisor to senior leaders, vendor owners, and cross-functional partners
• Influence enterprise decision-making through insight, commercial acumen, and executive-level communication
• Contribute thought leadership to the evolution of SIE’s vendor management, value realization, and One Sony capabilities

Qualifications

• Bachelor's Degree
• 8–12+ years in vendor management, procurement, commercial operations, business insights, or a related discipline.
• Demonstrated experience driving enterprise or cross-organizational initiatives.
• Proven ability to influence senior stakeholders in complex, matrixed environments.

Skills:

• Strong commercial and financial acumen.
• Advanced analytical and synthesis skills (performance, spend, utilization).
• Executive-level communication and storytelling capability.
• Ability to influence without direct authority.
• Broad understanding of technology vendor ecosystems.

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Sr. Technical Program Manager – San Diego

As a key leader of the Commerce - Technical Operations team, you will help drive the availability and enablement for PlayStation Store and purchase platforms. You will partner closely with service development teams to deliver exciting, new product and platform capabilities, while continuously raising the bar of maturity for operational excellence for millions of players worldwide.

We are seeking an experienced TPM with a strong balance of technical, organizational, and interpersonal skills. You will drive large-scale, cross-functional programs that impact teams throughout SIE. This role requires navigating complex systems, managing dependencies, and delivering results in a fast-paced, high-availability environment. 

Responsibilities:

As a TPM in Technical Operations, you will lead the delivery of development and operational initiatives across 100+ commerce experiences and backend services in a cloud environment. You will ensure high availability, resiliency, scalability, and performance across the platform.

You will collaborate closely with development, platform, security, and global operations teams to operate a highly available commerce ecosystem while enabling teams to efficiently deliver customer-facing features.

Other responsibilities include...

• Lead SRE and technical initiatives in a fast paced and highly collaborative environment supporting horizontally across a large software development organization.
• Demonstrate people and soft skills to generate a positive atmosphere of excitement and collaboration towards delighting customers and pushing the limits of technology.
• Manage delivery schedules and timelines across multiple products and teams, ensuring timelines are met and communication is transparent at all levels
• Collaborate and partner with other SRE teams that specialize in areas such as platform hosting, Kubernetes, CICD, and data services inspiring change and ensuring optimal application performance and resiliency across all back-end services 
• Identify and solve complex problems, simplifying them into clear, actionable insights that drive informed decisions and behavioral change.
• Be an advocate for continuous process improvement and innovation.
• Leverage technical expertise to bridge the gap between engineering and business. Translating complex concepts for technical and non-technical audiences, including executive leadership.
• Ensure to advocate and drive all tenets of SRE including availability, resiliency, observability, capacity, elasticity, supportability and automation.
• Conduct, document and present root cause analysis documents to share incident insights and findings with our broader engineering organization.

Qualifications:

• Bachelor's Degree in Engineering,Computer Science or equivalent  
• 5+ years of experience in Technical Program Management in an agile software development environment.
• 5+ years hands-on cloud experience – integrating, developing and managing applications
• 5+ years of relevant work experience in a highly visible, global and/or critical production, software environment
• 5+ years of experience or exposure to software engineering or supporting/maintaining software systems experience (Java, React, etc.)
• Experience managing projects and dependencies across cross functional teams, building sustainable processes, and coordinating release schedules.
• Excellent written and verbal communication skills with the ability to influence and collaborate across multiple groups with varied priorities.
• Excellent judgment, organizational and problem-solving skills.
• Experience or exposure to container technologies and orchestration (ie: Docker, Kubernetes, EKS)
• Experience or exposure to observability tools (ie: DataDog, CloudWatch, Splunk)

Sr. Shared Services Manager, Analytics

San Mateo, San Diego (Hybrid)

We are seeking a Senior Shared Services Analytics Manager to serve as the operational heartbeat of our global analytics organization. Reporting to the Director of Analytics Operations and supporting the Analytics Leadership Team, you will act as a strategic partner, driving the department's internal identity, communication strategy, and team development.

In this role, you will bridge the gap between technical excellence and organizational health. You will be responsible for managing high-stakes executive communications and orchestrating large-scale departmental processes & events for a team of 150+ professionals. Your mission is to ensure our global team is strategically aligned, highly skilled, and  clearly communicating across the PlayStation ecosystem.

Responsibilities

• Executive Operations & Communications – Act as a strategic proxy for leadership. Own the creation of high-impact executive presentations and briefings for the VP and other senior stakeholders. Translate complex analytics initiatives into compelling narratives for both technical and non-technical audiences.
• Departmental Voice – Design and execute a comprehensive internal communications strategy. Manage departmental newsletters, announcements, and the brand of the analytics organization to ensure all team members stay informed and inspired.
• Internal Training – Lead the skills uplifting roadmap. Identify skill gaps within the analytics space and develop formal training plans, workshops, and certification paths to keep the team at the forefront of industry trends.
• Strategic Orchestration – Own the end-to-end planning for major departmental milestones, including quarterly planning sessions, all-hands meetings, and large-scale team-building events. Balance business-critical alignment with culture-building.
• Stakeholder Enablement – Develop and maintain a framework for stakeholder training, ensuring our business partners know how to effectively engage with analytics services and self-serve tools.
• Operational Rhythm – Maintain the departmental cadence of accountability. Track progress against non-technical strategic goals and ensure the leadership team is prepared for key milestones.
• Change Management & Culture – Drive organizational change initiatives that improve team morale and operational efficiency. Act as a culture-carrier, ensuring a consistent and inclusive experience across a global, distributed team.
• Organizational Insights – Design and execute the voice of the employee strategy. This includes architecting internal surveys to measure departmental health, training effectiveness, and event impact. Collect feedback data and synthesize complex feedback into actionable themes and executive-level readouts to inform future strategy.

What We’re Looking For:

• 8+ years of experience in strategy consulting, analytics operations, program management, or as a chief of staff within a large-scale technology organization
• Exceptional ability to create compelling presentations and written communications that simplify the complex
• Proven track record of building training programs or learning & development initiatives in the technology industry
• Experience managing large-scale logistics for large groups events, including both virtual and in-person formats
• Ability to navigate a matrixed global environment, building rapport with individual contributors while providing candid upward feedback to leaders
• A deep understanding of the gaming industry or high-volume consumer tech is a significant plus
• High proficiency with tools such as MS Outlook, PowerPoint, Teams, SharePoint, and Slack for internal narrative-building and communications;

Senior Software Engineer (Frontend), Social

Location: Los Angeles, CA

The Senior Software Engineer will design and develop PlayStation features on the PS5, mobile, and other supported platforms. They will provide strong technical knowledge, experience, and implementation efforts across a set of client applications. The ideal candidate will come from a strong object-oriented development background and be passionate about client applications and web technologies.

Role Responsibilities

• Architect and develop complex projects across multiple teams and fields to deliver new and innovative features.
• Develop and maintain high quality front-end applications using React Native, ensuring they are production-ready and meet performance standards.
• Extremely proactive and independent, communicating with all relevant stakeholders on plans, schedules, and deliverables.
• Create and deploy adaptable UI elements for multiple platforms, emphasizing scalability and ease of maintenance, while incorporating architectural frameworks such as MVC, MVVM, and MVP.
• Collaborate with Product Owners, Product Managers, and Designers to understand feature requirements, define technical requirements, and develop new features.
• Will have ownership of technology, common shareable features across a large project or on several small projects.
• Produce excellent, thorough design, architecture, and development documentation.

•       Focus on quality and strive to improve processes, propose standard methodologies, and drive their usage within the teams.
•       Partner with QA engineers to ensure test coverage and verify test plans that help deliver high quality features.
•       Write unit tests and component tests for features with key characteristics of stability and maintainability that prevent regressions in the product code.
•       Efficiently debug issues raised by internal and external users and work with the team to provide resolutions to these issues.
•       Support and mentor other team members and provide technical leadership by reviewing pull requests, design plans, and participate in architectural discussions.
•       Communicate on development strategy, technical subjects related to software development frameworks and collaborate effectively with the globally distributed teams to achieve business goals.
•       Ability to understand, discuss and improve specifications to enhance the overall experience for players and game studio partners.

Required Qualifications

• Must relocate to Los Angeles, Orange County, or San Diego area.
• Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science or equivalent. 
• 5+ years of solid programming experience in end-to-end development using HTML, CSS, JavaScript, Node.js, React and React Native.
• Expert level knowledge of object-oriented design and design patterns, and passionate about writing high-quality and well-architected code.
• Collaborated on cloud-deployed services hosting APIs and backend processes talking to data storage and caching layers, event buses, and other services.
• Strong understanding of engineering best practices – requirement gathering and analysis, design and develop secure and scalable code with unit tests, partake in code reviews and documentation; experience with open source-based technology stack.
• Ability to oversee periodic on-call duty as well as out-of-band requests.

Preferred Qualifications:

• Several years of experience in working with C++ and C# on multi-threaded applications.
• Strong independent problem-solving skills.
• Excellent written and verbal communication skills in a team environment.
• Proven ability to learn quickly and tackle new challenges.
• Works independently with strong work ethic to deliver on critical timelines.
• Able to work quickly and efficiently in a challenging environment.
• A passion for gaming and a proven record of delivering the best possible experiences to players and game partners.

Principal, Portfolio Strategy Manager 

San Diego, Los Angeles, San Mateo (Hybrid)

As Principal, Portfolio Strategy Manager, you will play a critical role in shaping how SIE translates strategy into actionable investment decisions across a global portfolio of Hardware, Software and Services. As a partner to teams and executives in Product Management, Engineering, Finance, Platform Business Office, Program Management and more, you will have to navigate and align competing priorities and perspectives. You will develop a comprehensive understanding of the portfolio, evolve and implement a data-informed portfolio management framework, and build trusted partnerships throughout the organization to help evaluate trade-offs and optimize portfolio balance and value. 

Responsibilities: 

• Gain a comprehensive understanding of the portfolio and its programs and develop deep insights to generate actionable recommendations 

• Ensure the portfolio reflects the right strategic investment mix and priorities to achieve business objectives 

• Standardize and improve performance measurement practices across the portfolio in partnership with data science & analytics teams 

• Provide stakeholders with actionable insights and trade-off recommendations to optimize resource allocation 

• Refine and lead execution of a value realization framework leveraging KPIs and ROI to assess programs and portfolio performance 

• Partner with cross-functional leaders to align priorities, resolve trade-offs, and enable executive decision-making through a structured process with clear ownership 

• Partner with the broader Portfolio and Program Management team to mature and scale portfolio management capabilities through frameworks, processes, and tools 

• Lead organizational change management to educate stakeholders and embed consistent portfolio practices that result in stronger accountability, faster execution, and better business outcomes 

Required skills and qualifications: 

• Bachelor's degree in science, economics or related field; advanced degree a plus 

• 12+ years of experience in portfolio management, finance, strategic planning or product management, within a technology-driven and/or customer-first environment 

• Experience in the gaming industry a plus 

• Proven success leading strategic planning for large-scale, complex, multi-billion-dollar portfolios 

• Strong understanding of portfolio management principles and practices 

• Creative problem-solver who thrives in ambiguity and creates clarity through structured thinking 

• Strong analytical mindset with the ability to balance data-driven rigor and strategic judgment  

• Track record of building and implementing effective performance measurement and value realization frameworks 

• Excellent communication and storytelling skills, with the ability to translate complexity into clear executive insights 

• Exceptional ability to influence and align senior stakeholders across diverse functions 

• Experience driving organizational transformation and change management 

Software Engineer II (Frontend), Social  

Rancho Bernardo, CA
Must relocate to Los Angeles, Orange County, or San Diego area.

The Software Engineer II role will design and develop solutions for PlayStation features on the PS5, mobile, and other supported platforms. They will provide strong technical knowledge, experience, and implementation efforts across all supported platforms. The ideal candidate will come from a strong object-oriented development background and be passionate about client applications and web technologies.

Responsibilities:

• Build and develop complex projects across mobile, console, and supported platforms, enhancing efficiency and collaboration.
• Develop and maintain high-quality front-end applications using React Native, ensuring they are production-ready and meet performance standards.
• Create and deploy adaptable UI elements for multiple platforms, emphasizing scalability and ease of maintenance, while incorporating architectural frameworks such as MVC, MVVM, and MVP.
• Develop unit and integration tests and conduct code reviews to ensure high-quality code and seamless functionality.
• Maintain clear, concise documentation of system architecture, codebase, and development processes.
• Develop using Agile methodologies such as Scrum to deliver iterative improvements and achieve breakthroughs.
• Collaborate closely with international teams of UI designers and product managers (USA, Japan, UK) to translate requirements into actionable work packages, creating engaging mobile user experiences.
• Represent the team in technical forums by presenting designs, sharing knowledge, and contributing insights to other Sony software development groups.

Required Qualifications:

• Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science or equivalent.
• Genuine passion for crafting seamless, intuitive user experiences that prioritize usability and performance.
• 2+ years of experience crafting single-page web applications or mobile applications.
• Hands-on experience with modern JavaScript frameworks such as React/React Native, Angular, or similar technologies to build flexible interfaces and engaging applications.
• Proficient knowledge of mobile environments, structures, and advancements in iOS and Android programming, including emerging innovations.
• Strong analytical and problem-solving skills, emphasizing effective and scalable solutions.
• Excellent verbal and written communication skills, with an ability to collaborate effectively in a team environment.
• Experience collaborating on cloud-deployed services that host APIs and backend processes interacting with data storage and caching layers, event buses, and other services.

Desired Qualifications:

• Proven experience with Agile development methodologies, such as Scrum.
• Proven skill in evaluating and improving UI and application performance, with a focus on UI response time and network optimization.
• Skilled in developing multi-threaded applications with a deep understanding of concurrency and synchronization.
• Experience in working with C++ and C# on multi-threaded applications.
• Proficiency in designing and implementing GraphQL APIs.
• Experience with cloud services and serverless architectures.
• Familiarity with CI/CD pipelines and automated deployment processes.
• Prior experience with system monitoring, performance tuning, and debugging in production environments.