At PlayStation, we're passionate about both partnership and technology. We care about building performant products and powerful tools, solving practical problems in delightful ways. We love building the systems that millions of people use, and we're always our own first customers and critics. We strive to be at the forefront of development technologies and celebrate our diversity with engineering teams located on four continents from all walks of life. We build our teams to be places where every voice is heard, all input is valued, and our members have the creative freedom to make their ideas real. 

PlayStation is seeking a Sr Software Development Engineer in Test, ML to join our San Mateo team and lead quality efforts for machine learning-powered products and services. You will partner closely with ML engineers, software engineers, product managers, and data partners to build scalable test automation and validation approaches for systems serving PlayStation at global scale. This role is focused on building confidence in model reliability, production readiness, and behavioral consistency. Unlike traditional software backend testing, success here requires validating probabilistic systems through score distributions, cohort-level behavior, thresholds, and statistical signals, not just deterministic pass/fail assertions.

Responsibilities:

• Design, develop, and maintain automated test frameworks, test scripts for ML inference services and related ML platform components using python/Java
• Build and automate realistic, representative test account creations and datasets to evaluate model behavior across different scenarios
• Validate score distributions, ranking behavior, output quality, and other model signals for incoming ML models prior to release
• Perform different types of testing, including functional, integration, regression and API testing working with RESTful APIs, microservices and databases, and non-functional performance and load testing to verify inference service scalability, latency requirements and reliability under production like conditions
• Work closely with ML engineers and ops teams to ensure that all features and bug fixes come with automated test coverage, ensuring continuous integration and deployment
• Debug and analyze test failures, model anomalies and report defects
• Drive high standards of quality for both engineering decisions and customer-facing features with optimal test and automation strategy
• Develop and implement best practices for test automation that is highly scalable and maintainable
• Monitor test execution and optimize performance in test environments
• Come up with innovative solutions to organizational problems

Required Qualifications: 

• Bachelor's degree or equivalent
• 5+ years of experience as an SDET, with strong experience testing backend systems.
• Proficiency in Python/Java/Scala/go for test automation.
• Hands-on experience with API testing tools (e.g., Postman or similar) for distributed systems
• Familiarity with CI/CD pipelines and test execution in Jenkins or similar environments such as jenkins, GitHub Actions, ArgoCD, etc
• Hands-on experience building and maintaining automated test frameworks (e.g., pytest, JUnit, TestNG, etc.)Experience in working with databases  for backend validation.
• Experience with cloud and container technologies (AWS, GCP, Kubernetes, Docker, etc.)
• Familiarity with monitoring and observability tools (e.g., Prometheus, Grafana, Datadog, etc.) for validating service health
• Strong understanding of software development lifecycle (SDLC) and agile methodologies.
• Excellent problem-solving skills and excellent communication skills.

Preferred Qualifications:

• Experience testing machine learning systems, such as recommendation systems, search ranking systems, or other probabilistic ML application systems.
• Experience creating synthetic or seeded test data to simulate realistic customer/account behaviors.
• Experience evaluating model outputs using statistical techniques, distribution analysis, or scenario-based validation, rather than deterministic assertions.
• Knowledge of data pipelines, feature stores, inference systems or model-serving infrastructure (Seldon, KServe, Ray Serve, etc.) is a plus.
• Experience testing online services with high RPS and low latency requirements
• Experience with performance and load testing tools (Locust, k6, Gatling, JMeter, etc.)
• Experience with Databricks or similar ML platform tooling

Director, Ad Operations & Technology
San Mateo, CA (hybrid)

We are seeking a Director of Ad Technology & Advertising Operations to lead the strategy and execution of our global advertising technology and operations ecosystem. This role will shape the future of our ad tech approach, driving the growth of programmatic and customer-focused monetization while building and scaling a high-performing global organization.

The ideal candidate brings deep expertise in ad tech and programmatic advertising, strong operational leadership, and the ability to partner effectively across Product, Sales, and Data within a gaming and entertainment environment. This is a unique opportunity to build a modern, user-focused advertising ecosystem at scale within one of the world’s most influential gaming and entertainment platforms, balancing innovation, premium experiences, and operational excellence.

What you’ll be doing:

Ad Technology & Platform Strategy

• Define and implement the global ad tech roadmap, including ad serving, programmatic monetization, audience targeting, measurement, and privacy-first data activation.
• Lead build vs. buy decisions, vendor selection, and platform integrations in partnership with Product and Engineering.
• Drive the evolution toward scalable, automated, and audience-based advertising solutions.

Advertising Operations & Monetization

• Own global advertising operations, including campaign execution, trafficking, yield management, forecasting, and optimization.
• Establish scalable processes, tools, and performance standards to support growth across regions, formats, and demand sources.
• Partner with Sales and Commercial teams to drive business progress while maintaining operational excellence and advertiser performance.

Audience, Data & Measurement

• Partner with data and analytics teams to develop and activate audience strategies that are ethical, measurable, and future-proof.
• Enable advanced reporting, insights, and experimentation to inform monetization and product decisions.

Leading a Distributed Team

• Build, lead, and scale a global organization of managers and individual contributors across the US, UK, and Japan.
• Set clear team charters, development paths, and performance expectations.
• Foster a collaborative, inclusive culture focused on accountability, innovation, and growth.

Cross-Functional & External Leadership

• Act as a senior partner to Product, Engineering, Sales, Legal, Privacy, and Finance collaborators.
• Represent the organization with key ad tech vendors, platform partners, and industry forums.

What we’re looking for:

• 15+ years of experience in ad technology, ad operations, or digital monetization.
• Deep understanding of programmatic advertising, ad tech platforms, and yield optimization.
• Proven experience owning and evolving complex ad tech stacks.
• Experience leading global, distributed teams and managing managers.
• Strong critical thinking combined with hands-on operational execution.
• Experience in gaming, entertainment, streaming, or premium digital platforms preferred.
• Familiarity with global data privacy and advertising regulations (e.g., GDPR, CCPA).

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Senior Manager, Content Personalization

San Mateo or San Diego  (hybrid)
OR
London, UK (hybrid) 

Role overview:

As the Senior Manager, Content Personalization you will be part of the PlayStation Store team responsible for showcasing the incredible range of gameplay experiences on the PlayStation Store to over 100 million loyal gamers. Your mission will be to personalize the player experience across the Store, helping players to find their perfect next game, drive higher engagement and conversion rates and deliver incremental revenues. 

You will leverage your deep expertise in digital commerce, to develop a deep understanding of our customers and our players’ behavior. Your analytical skills and creative thinking will help you drive experimentation at scale, both leading and supporting personalization tests.

You will monitor and optimize customer experiences across omnichannel touchpoints, including console, app, and web storefronts. By identifying market-level opportunities, you will support teams in enhancing player engagement and conversion through highly personalized experiences. Your hands-on approach will involve systematically developing hypotheses to test and optimize performance, setting up and executing tests with well-defined goals and KPIs to drive commercial growth. With a growth mindset, you will foster a culture of continuous improvement, sharing best practices and insights across the organization. 

Highly collaborative, you will partner with stakeholders across D2C, GM/GSBO, and Product teams to develop a world-class player experience. You will deliver a well-defined program of work through agreed roadmaps, contributing to Store strategy and development as part of the extended Store Leadership Team. 

What you’ll be doing:

• Drive Impact via Personalization: Establish yourself as a trusted leader of the personalization cross-functional pod; experimenting at scale helping design, develop and deliver tests to drive positive impact to our customers and the business.
• Develop & Deliver a Content Personalization Strategy: responsible for developing and delivering a content personalization roadmap that enhances experiences across the PlayStation storefronts driving incremental revenues and commercial growth. 
• Design, Evaluate and Report Results: be an authority on personalization data and test results, establishing clear frameworks and guidelines to help evaluate the impact of personalization. Work closely with Product and Analytics teams to further refine reporting dashboards in order to increase valuable insights and produce actionable insights and data-backed recommendations. 
• Translate Strategy into Action: accountable for translating strategy and plans into OKR frameworks, building well defined programmes to positively impact objectives. Establishing and developing a clear set of KPI’s with stakeholders to ensure alignment with the Store Strategy and Mid-Range Plans. 
• Foster Continuous Improvement: develop best practices and function as the subject matter expert on content personalization across the business, further supporting the development of a data driven culture of continuous improvement. Work closely with Store teams to stay abreast of commercial priorities and further understand how players are responding to commercial executions and campaigns. 
• Evaluate and Report Results: Work with the Personalization pod to evaluate results, help determine the statistical significance of tests and assess the impact on incremental revenue and other KPIs. Help develop detailed insights and reporting on tests to highlight performance impact and produce actionable insights and data-backed recommendations. 
• Collaborate Across Teams: Collaborate with teams across the business, including the Store, D2C, GM/GSBO, and Product Teams, to build strong relationships and to deliver against insights, plans, and recommendations. Ensure all plans align with brand and marketing guidelines. Work with Matrix teams to foster a collaborative global and local hybrid culture that encourages and supports high performance, creativity, innovation, and data led decision making.  
• Understand Industry Trends: Stay abreast of trends and best practices in digital commerce. Keep up to date with emerging industry trends, and best practices to bring fresh, innovative ideas to the business. 
• Team leadership: lead, coach, and mentor a team of two global personalization specialists, providing guidance and feedback to deliver impact and achieve objectives.

What we’re looking for:

• The ideal candidate will have a minimum of 12 years’ experience in digital media entertainment - working across commerce and personalization, a passion for understanding customers and strong commercial instincts supported with a demonstrable experience of delivering commercial impact and growth. 
• Proven experience in people management, including leading teams, performance coaching, and fostering professional development.
• Adept at using data and analytics to develop a deep understanding of customer trends, with experience of creating programs of work to continuously personalize and improve customer interfaces and experiences. 
• Strong background of experimentation and experience of refining testing and experimentation methodologies and frameworks to deliver against KPIs in a scaled growth business. 
• Excellent data and analysis skills and comfort using analytics tools to understand and synthesize results and identify commercial opportunities. 
• Exemplifies a systematic, disciplined, and logical approach to problem solving, whilst also considering innovative and creative options.
• Extensive experience of working in a direct-to-consumer digital or e-commerce business, in either the Retail, FMCG, Media or Tech verticals. A passion for the games industry and gaming is desired but not essential. 
• Exceptional interpersonal skills, with demonstrable experience working in tandem across commercial and product teams. The ability to work collaboratively at a local and global level in a hybrid environment is also important. This individual should also be comfortable working across multiple levels in an organization and communicating with large groups of colleagues and senior stakeholders effectively. 
• Experience of working collaboratively across sales, marketing, and insight teams to develop and deliver programs of work and further comfort in working with Product and Engineering Teams to propose product and functionality enhancements. 
• Bachelor’s degree or equivalent in Math, Marketing, Data Science or Business Analytics 
• Experience and comfort of delivering in a high energy, fast paced and changing environment.

At PlayStation Studios Insights & Personalization, we work with some of the best game studios in the world -- responsible for developing some of the most recognisable and ambitious games and franchises on PlayStation, including Helldivers 2, Horizon, God of War, Marvel's Spider-Man and Gran Turismo.

We provide timely, actionable insights, along with tools to deliver the right content, to the right players, at the right time. We are looking for talented individuals to join us in pushing the boundaries of game analytics for PlayStation games. We are expanding our team and are excited for a Senior Producer to join our Player Engagement Services team to help game teams build meaningful, personalized, and engaging player experiences.

Role Overview:

What you'll be doing:

• Lead and scale the operating model and execution of Lifecycle content through PES across multiple studios, enabling consistent, high-quality campaigns across a growing portfolio.

• Act as a central partner to studios and CRM, enabling them to leverage PES capabilities with quality, efficiency, and consistency across titles.

• Define and optimize central lifecycle operations for PlayStation Studios, establishing best practices, intake models, prioritization frameworks, and delivery standards.

• Drive long-term direction for player engagement operations, identifying opportunities to improve how PES supports studios across the game lifecycle (pre-launch through live service) throughout the portfolio.

• Establish clear definitions of success for operations, including operational KPIs, execution quality, and impact on studio outcomes.

• Identify and prioritize tooling, data, and process gaps, partnering with product and engineering teams to improve PES capabilities and scalability.

• Influence cross-functional roadmaps and resourcing decisions to ensure PES can meet the needs of a growing portfolio of live and upcoming titles.

• Champion knowledge sharing and capability building across studios, raising the bar for lifecycle engagement execution across PlayStation Studios.

What we are looking for:

• 8–12+ years of experience in production, marketing operations, or project management roles, preferably in gaming or digital entertainment.

• Proven ability to manage multiple complex projects under varying deadlines.

• Proven track record of owning and scaling multiple cross-functional programs or services under varying deadlines.

• Excellent communication and leadership skills, with experience mentoring others and elevating team capability.

• Experience building or evolving operating models, workflows, and service delivery systems that support multiple stakeholders.

• Strong ability to lead through influence across senior stakeholders, aligning studios and central teams without direct authority.

• Demonstrated success in driving operational excellence at scale, including process design, prioritization, and execution quality.

• Experience with media production teams, game development, or publishing pipelines.

• Familiarity with CRM systems, integrating innovative tooling, or marketing solutions in the entertainment industry.

• Deep understanding of game development and/or live service operations, including how players engage over time.

• Ability to foster an inclusive and inspiring team culture.

Bonus points if you have:

• Worked with a diverse set of global teams and cultures.

• Game system design or event operations expertise.

• Experience leveraging and providing feedback on new in-development tooling.

• Enthusiasm for the games industry and a deep understanding of content landscapes.

Sony Interactive Entertainment has an extraordinary opportunity in the Tools, Framework and Infrastructure team! We are looking for a motivated and creative individual to help build test tools, frameworks, and infrastructure, focused on delivering high quality system software which drives the PlayStation experience.

 As a Software Engineer, you'll focus on building test frameworks and infrastructure, internal tools, and automating test workflows. You will collaborate closely with Quality Engineering and Software Engineering teams to build robust systems to ensure console software delivered to customers and game studios are of the highest quality.

Responsibilities

• Design, build, and maintain test frameworks, tooling and infrastructure for teams which develop and test software for the Playstation console.

• Integrate automated tests into CI/CD pipelines using Jenkins, GitHub Actions or similar tools.

• Collaborate with Quality and Development teams in the construction of creative test strategies for console system software.

• Develop telemetry systems and dashboard in order to make data-driven decisions about technical feature development.

Required Qualifications

• Master’s degree in Computer science, Electrical Engineering, or equivalent 

• 8+ years experience in designing, developing and maintaining tools and applications in C++, Python, or Javascript with a focus on building testing tools, and test frameworks at scale. (C++ and Python experience preferred)

• Experience with test automation frameworks

• Hands-on experience with CI/CD systems like Jenkins, GitHub Actions or similar tools.

• Comfortable working in Linux and Windows-based development environments.

• Strong communication skills and the ability to work cross-functionally with engineering and QA teams.

• Strong debugging skills.

Nice-to-Have Skills

• Experience with test/build automation on PCs, consoles or other embedded systems.

• Contributions to and familiarity with software testing systems (and general software testing experience)

• LLVM or LLVM-based C/C++ compilers

• Experience with developing or testing SDK libraries.

• Working knowledge of Docker-based test environments.

• Machine Learning experience

• Game industry background

• Japanese Language familiarity a plus
  

Tools and Technologies you will work with

• Jenkins (CI/CD), GitHub Actions, ArgoCD

• Python

• C, C++ or Rust

• Git, GitHub

• Containerization technology such as Docker and Kubernetes.

Sr. Portfolio Data Analyst

San Mateo, CA

The Sr. Portfolio Data Analyst serves as the senior data authority for Portfolio Management within the Platform Business organization. This role designs and delivers scalable data solutions and advanced analytics to provide real-time, trusted insights into portfolio performance, enabling data-driven investment and prioritization decisions. The position combines deep financial acumen, technical expertise, and portfolio evaluation to guide strategic outcomes.

Key Responsibilities

• Architect and maintain scalable data pipelines integrating program, financial, and operational data into a unified portfolio data model.
• Develop executive-ready dashboards and analytics (KPIs, trends, forecasts) to assess portfolio health, performance, ROI, and value realization.
• Lead portfolio reporting (operational and quarterly), including budget vs. actuals, forecasting, resource capacity, and delivery metrics.
• Perform advanced financial and scenario modeling to evaluate trade-offs, risks, and investment outcomes across the portfolio.
• Ensure data integrity through validation, governance, and standardized definitions; document data lineage and business rules.
• Automate reporting and analytics workflows to improve efficiency and scalability.
• Partner with Finance, Program Delivery, and Strategy teams to align portfolio metrics with ROI frameworks and business outcomes.
• Support executive decision-making with clear, actionable insights and portfolio performance narratives.
• Mentor analysts and promote best practices in analytics, data modeling, and visualization.

Qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree in Business Analytics, Finance, Computer Science, or related field; advanced degree a plus. 
• 6–8 years of experience in portfolio management, finance, or strategy within a technology-driven environment.
• Strong expertise in financial modeling, ROI analysis, forecasting, and portfolio performance assessment.
• Proven ability to evaluate portfolio health (capacity, risk, dependencies, and outcomes).
• Advanced technical skills: SQL and Python/R; experience building data pipelines and analytical models.
• Proficiency in BI tools (Tableau, Power BI) and Excel for executive-level reporting.
• Experience with data governance, system integration, and large-scale data validation.
• Strong cross-functional collaboration and ability to translate complex data into strategic insights.

Corporate Counsel, Intellectual Property Enforcement
San Mateo, CA (hybrid, 2x/week in office) *

Sony Interactive Entertainment's Legal, Public Policy & ESG team wants a motivated attorney to join its award-winning IP practice. As Corporate Counsel, through a mix of contentious and advisory work you will help safeguard authentic PlayStation products worldwide.

What You’ll Be Doing

• Support Senior Counsel on strategic enforcement activities, such as targeted investigations, raids, and litigations within China and elsewhere targeting counterfeiters, progressing design invalidation actions against third party registrations which encroach on SIE's distinctive products, and assisting on other larger projects on an as needed basis.
• Manage enforcement efforts in the Americas, including Customs programs, developing in-country enforcement strategies, reviewing Schedule A litigation documents and submissions, coordination with local counsel and assessing performance, and providing local legal support to our paralegal team.
• Manage US IP casework related to merchandise working closely with the IP litigation and Brands teams.
• Draft, review, and approve DMCA takedowns, and online platform-specific IP complaints (Amazon, eBay, Mercado Libre, Meta, TikTok, and others), and resolve challenges to takedown requests involving US-based hosting services and ISPs.
• Identify repeat or large-scale infringers for referral to law enforcement or litigation.
• Partner with global IP colleagues (Litigation, Brands, Patents) and business units across the Americas, UK, Europe, Middle East, and Asia to support complex enforcement matters.
• Stay updated on relevant case law and regulatory developments, such as safe harbor provisions, intermediary liability, and copyright law especially in the U.S. and Latin America.
• Represent SIE in Americas-based industry groups and contribute to policy discussions and draft legislation reviews.
• Assist with developing policies, procedures, and guidelines, and provide training to junior team members and business units. .
• Prepare quarterly enforcement reports, bringing to bear data analytics to highlight trends, successes, risks, and opportunities for program improvements in our Americas region.

What We’re Looking For

• At least 5 years of experience as either in-house counsel and/or outside counsel dealing with contentious soft IP matters (trademark, design, and copyright), with a minimum of 3 years of experience at a law firm.
• Educational Background: J.D. degree from ABA accredited law school (or foreign equivalent) with membership in good standing in a US state bar.
• Extensive knowledge of copyright law is particularly desirable, with experience in areas such as advising on copyright-related AI issues, game cloning, circumvention of technical protection measures. Familiarity with IP enforcement in China is helpful, but it is not a prerequisite.
• A genuine interest in technology (including AI), video games, and the broader entertainment industry.
• Familiarity with brand protection programs on e-commerce/social media platforms and online takedown processes.
• Experience of handling external vendors, including budget setting, exacting management of cost budgeting and adherence to budgets, and vendor benchmark setting and performance review.
• Current member admitted to and in good standing with California state bar.
• Strong project management skills and ability to handle competing priorities independently.
• Excellent oral and written communication and negotiation skills, outstanding integrity, good judgment, strong analytical skills, and a positive outlook.
• A proven track record of professional growth and a history of driving business impact through excellent legal support.
• Bring an attitude that values different perspectives and experiences and actively cultivate inclusivity and collaboration in your daily work.
• Spanish language proficiency would be a plus! 
  
  

*PlayStation offers a global hybrid office/remote working model — Flex Modes — which aims to combine the flexibility of remote working with the magic of in-person collaboration. The model is built upon the principle of working together in-person as work requires, with the freedom to work remotely otherwise. 

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Do you have strong technical abilities, and excellent communication skills and can be an inspiration to your team to achieve extraordinary results? Have a passion for automation? Want to work at a company where customers have real excitement for the products you help create? At PlayStation, we are seeking engineers to join a global initiative in robust test automation and Continuous Integration/Continuous Deployment systems.

We are looking for a Software Development Engineer in Test who can help ensure we're able to continue to grow our capabilities without negative impact to our passionate user base.

What You'll Do

• Set up test frameworks, and help teams set up automation infrastructure
• Develop and implement standard methodologies for automation, continuous build and deploy, automated testing, multi-functional end-to-end testing, including device testing, and performance testing
• Work with globally distributed teams to engage early and provide continuous delivery of high quality software products that delight Sony customers
• Manage, and monitor various Jenkins Jobs and report statuses
• Identify and act on opportunities to improve the QA process
• Expand testing and automation across teams to promote ownership of quality
• Work with console developers to ensure that all features and bug fixes come with automated test coverage
• Maintain and improve existing Python based automation framework
• Report, track and verify defects

This Role Will Require Knowledge Of

• Testing – the study and practice of a variety of test techniques and methodologies, and familiarity with prominent voices in the online testing community
• Test automation – an interest in test automation to a level where you can discuss the pros and cons of various automation approaches. To support this, you also have working knowledge of a modern programming language
• Agile software development – understanding of common methodologies and articulation of how a strong tester can best support their team in that context
• Performance - passion for application performance and concern about application load time, perceived performance, and user retention

Qualifications

• A Bachelor's degree in Computer Science or equivalent
• Proven experience writing automated tests in C++, Python, JavaScript
• Practical experience using development and deployment tools: Git, Docker, Conan, npm
• Experience in developing CI pipelines using Jenkins / Github Actions,
• Experience with Selenium or Appium
• Experience with at least one modern web application framework, preferably React
• Knowledge and experience testing APIs, Libraries, SDK / Application Frameworks, Native Applications
• Strong technical, analytical, and problem-solving skills
• Ability to work independently and as part of a team
• Excellent verbal and written communication skills
• Ability to estimate effort and size of features
• Experience with agile development methodologies and TDD processes

Join us at PlayStation and help us build world-class experiences for our users!

Staff Software Engineer, Client Engineer 

San Mateo, CA 

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®Plus, and 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 Corporation. 

Are you looking for a challenge? 

We are looking for a person with deep expertise in native iOS development to drive the evolution of our mobile application ecosystem. This role will shape the architecture, frameworks, and technical direction of the PlayStation experience on iOS, helping deliver seamless, performant, and delightful applications to millions of players worldwide. 

As a Staff Engineer, you will not only design and build critical components but also provide technical leadership, mentor engineers across the team, and partner with product, design, and platform stakeholders to ensure scalable and sustainable solutions. 

Come be part of the team to realize the next phase of gaming expansion for our 100M+ monthly active PlayStation users. 

Responsibilities:  

• Define and drive the architectural vision that powers PlayStation iOS app experiences. Produce and integrate iOS frameworks and SDKs to support development across teams for the Mac platform and meet feature and performance requirements.  

• Lead the design and build UX experiences written in Swift and and implementation of high-performance native modules in C++ with iOS APIs (Objective-C/Swift). 

• Partner closely with cross-platform teams to establish standards, patterns, and best practices that scale across multiple desktop platforms. 

• Apply architectural design patterns such as MVC, MVVM, MVP to develop sustainable and reusable codebase. 

• Mentor and coach engineers across the team, raising the technical bar and fostering a culture of engineering excellence. 

• Collaborate with UI designers, product managers, and international partners to transform requirements into high-quality, maintainable macOS solutions (USA/Japan/Canada). 

• Drive performance optimization, stability, and system-level integration for iOS-specific features. 

• Contribute to the design of APIs, SDKs, and developer-facing tools that accelerate PlayStation app development. 

• Represent the team in architectural and technical forums across Sony Interactive Entertainment, advocating for iOS platform needs and alignment.

• Support CI/CD workflows by shaping automation strategies and maintaining code quality standards. 

Required Qualifications: 

• 8+ years of software development experience, with at least 5 years focused on iOS native application development. 

• BS/MS degree in Computer Science or equivalent. 

• Strong expertise in C++ and solid experience with JavaScript integration (React Native). 

• Expert knowledge of the general Mac landscape, architectures, trends, platform features, and new technologies. 

• Proven experience designing large-scale, performant, multi-threaded applications. 

• Strong background in API and solution design. 

• Experience applying software architectural patterns (MVC, MVVM, MVP, or similar) to build reusable and maintainable systems. 

• Familiarity with Agile development methodologies (e.g., Scrum). 

• Track record of technical leadership: mentoring engineers, leading projects, or influencing architectural direction. Passion for building world-class desktop user experiences. 

Desired Qualifications: 

• Experience with Objective-C and/or Swift for iOS system integration. 

• Experience with iPadOS and MacOS

• Familiarity with React Native and hybrid app architectures.  

• Contributions to open-source projects, especially developer libraries or frameworks. 

• Experience with CI/CD tools (e.g., Jenkins) and modern build pipelines. 

• Strong communication and collaboration skills with globally distributed teams. 

Senior Manager, Content Personalization

San Mateo or San Diego  (hybrid)
OR
London, UK (hybrid) 

Role overview:

As the Senior Manager, Content Personalization you will be part of the PlayStation Store team responsible for showcasing the incredible range of gameplay experiences on the PlayStation Store to over 100 million loyal gamers. Your mission will be to personalize the player experience across the Store, helping players to find their perfect next game, drive higher engagement and conversion rates and deliver incremental revenues. 

You will leverage your deep expertise in digital commerce, to develop a deep understanding of our customers and our players’ behavior. Your analytical skills and creative thinking will help you drive experimentation at scale, both leading and supporting personalization tests.

You will monitor and optimize customer experiences across omnichannel touchpoints, including console, app, and web storefronts. By identifying market-level opportunities, you will support teams in enhancing player engagement and conversion through highly personalized experiences. Your hands-on approach will involve systematically developing hypotheses to test and optimize performance, setting up and executing tests with well-defined goals and KPIs to drive commercial growth. With a growth mindset, you will foster a culture of continuous improvement, sharing best practices and insights across the organization. 

Highly collaborative, you will partner with stakeholders across D2C, GM/GSBO, and Product teams to develop a world-class player experience. You will deliver a well-defined program of work through agreed roadmaps, contributing to Store strategy and development as part of the extended Store Leadership Team. 

What you’ll be doing:

• Drive Impact via Personalization: Establish yourself as a trusted leader of the personalization cross-functional pod; experimenting at scale helping design, develop and deliver tests to drive positive impact to our customers and the business.
• Develop & Deliver a Content Personalization Strategy: responsible for developing and delivering a content personalization roadmap that enhances experiences across the PlayStation storefronts driving incremental revenues and commercial growth. 
• Design, Evaluate and Report Results: be an authority on personalization data and test results, establishing clear frameworks and guidelines to help evaluate the impact of personalization. Work closely with Product and Analytics teams to further refine reporting dashboards in order to increase valuable insights and produce actionable insights and data-backed recommendations. 
• Translate Strategy into Action: accountable for translating strategy and plans into OKR frameworks, building well defined programmes to positively impact objectives. Establishing and developing a clear set of KPI’s with stakeholders to ensure alignment with the Store Strategy and Mid-Range Plans. 
• Foster Continuous Improvement: develop best practices and function as the subject matter expert on content personalization across the business, further supporting the development of a data driven culture of continuous improvement. Work closely with Store teams to stay abreast of commercial priorities and further understand how players are responding to commercial executions and campaigns. 
• Evaluate and Report Results: Work with the Personalization pod to evaluate results, help determine the statistical significance of tests and assess the impact on incremental revenue and other KPIs. Help develop detailed insights and reporting on tests to highlight performance impact and produce actionable insights and data-backed recommendations. 
• Collaborate Across Teams: Collaborate with teams across the business, including the Store, D2C, GM/GSBO, and Product Teams, to build strong relationships and to deliver against insights, plans, and recommendations. Ensure all plans align with brand and marketing guidelines. Work with Matrix teams to foster a collaborative global and local hybrid culture that encourages and supports high performance, creativity, innovation, and data led decision making.  
• Understand Industry Trends: Stay abreast of trends and best practices in digital commerce. Keep up to date with emerging industry trends, and best practices to bring fresh, innovative ideas to the business. 
• Team leadership: lead, coach, and mentor a team of two global personalization specialists, providing guidance and feedback to deliver impact and achieve objectives.

What we’re looking for:

• The ideal candidate will have a minimum of 12 years’ experience in digital media entertainment - working across commerce and personalization, a passion for understanding customers and strong commercial instincts supported with a demonstrable experience of delivering commercial impact and growth. 
• Proven experience in people management, including leading teams, performance coaching, and fostering professional development.
• Adept at using data and analytics to develop a deep understanding of customer trends, with experience of creating programs of work to continuously personalize and improve customer interfaces and experiences. 
• Strong background of experimentation and experience of refining testing and experimentation methodologies and frameworks to deliver against KPIs in a scaled growth business. 
• Excellent data and analysis skills and comfort using analytics tools to understand and synthesize results and identify commercial opportunities. 
• Exemplifies a systematic, disciplined, and logical approach to problem solving, whilst also considering innovative and creative options.
• Extensive experience of working in a direct-to-consumer digital or e-commerce business, in either the Retail, FMCG, Media or Tech verticals. A passion for the games industry and gaming is desired but not essential. 
• Exceptional interpersonal skills, with demonstrable experience working in tandem across commercial and product teams. The ability to work collaboratively at a local and global level in a hybrid environment is also important. This individual should also be comfortable working across multiple levels in an organization and communicating with large groups of colleagues and senior stakeholders effectively. 
• Experience of working collaboratively across sales, marketing, and insight teams to develop and deliver programs of work and further comfort in working with Product and Engineering Teams to propose product and functionality enhancements. 
• Bachelor’s degree or equivalent in Math, Marketing, Data Science or Business Analytics 
• Experience and comfort of delivering in a high energy, fast paced and changing environment.

CRM Analyst (Global Partner Development & Relations)  

San Mateo, CA (Collab/Hybrid)

The Global Business Strategy & Planning (GBSP) team plays a pivotal role within Sony Interactive Entertainment's (SIE) Global Partner Development & Relations (GPDR) division, driving success by aligning GPDR's business goals with SIE’s broader strategic vision. Our mission goes beyond simply meeting targets - we shape the future by ensuring GPDR achieves its financial, strategic, and people commitments.  

With a focus on three key areas - crafting GPDR's strategy and business plans, analyzing performance, and managing operations, the GBSP team is at the heart of the action, steering the organization toward sustained success.  In this role, you will help scale and optimize the GPDR CRM program by bridging business and technical teams, translating stakeholder needs into structured enhancements, and driving scalable solutions that improve how PlayStation manages and engages with global third-party partners. 

About the Role 

We’re looking for a Business Analyst to help stabilize, structure, and scale the GPDR CRM program, the core system that enables PlayStation to manage global third-party partner relationships. 

This role will bridge the gap between business users and technical teams, ensuring the CRM evolves in alignment with GPDR’s goals and workflows. You’ll work closely with stakeholders across Account Management, Portfolio, and Engineering to turn feedback and feature requests into structured enhancements and roadmap inputs that support the broader CRM strategy, driving adoption, data quality, and operational efficiency. 

You’ll play an important role in improving how GPDR uses data and technology to manage its global partnerships, helping drive scalable solutions that strengthen how we engage with partners. This unique, cross-functional role provides exposure to teams across the organization, offering a rare opportunity to build a comprehensive understanding of how GPDR operates and delivers value internally and externally. 

What You’ll Do 

• Partner with business stakeholders to gather and translate requirements into actionable user stories and feature recommendations, informing CRM roadmap planning. 

• Manage the centralized intake process for CRM enhancements and support prioritization frameworks established by program leadership 

• Collaborate with DTIS Engineering and Salesforce developers to clarify requirements, validate solutions, and track delivery progress. 

• Document business processes and workflows, identify opportunities to simplify or automate tasks within Salesforce. 

• Support change management and adoption, including user training materials, release communications, and feedback loops. 

• Support recurring CRM governance meetings in partnership with stakeholders, providing updates on backlog, release status, and key metrics. 

• Monitor CRM data quality and license usage, partnering with teams to improve accuracy, completeness, and adoption. 

• Serve as the program’s champion and liaison for CRM feature requests, enhancements, and user feedback. 

• Collaborate with stakeholders to define success metrics and performance indicators tied to business outcomes. 
   

What You’ll Bring 

• 4+ years of experience in business analysis, product management, or CRM administration, ideally in a global organization. 

• Bachelor’s degree or similar relevant years of experience

• Understanding of Salesforce or similar CRM platforms - comfortable mapping workflows, data fields, and integrations. 

• Proven ability to translate business needs into clear technical requirements and manage competing priorities. 

• Excellent communication and facilitation skills; able to lead stakeholder discussions and synthesize input from multiple perspectives. 

• Experience in project/program management 

• Experience working in a global role, operating with stakeholders across multiple regions 

• Analytical and organized - able to bring structure to ambiguity. 

• Demonstrated ability to challenge assumptions and propose thoughtful, outside-the-box solutions that improve workflows and user experience 

• Comfortable working independently and collaboratively in a cross-functional environment. 

• A proactive, diplomatic problem-solver who builds trust across teams. 

• Interest in or experience within the gaming, entertainment, or technology industry is a plus. 

Role overview:

This role acts as US-based business partner for Global Marketing responsible for marketing investments, associated revenue performance, supporting allocation decisions and managing the analysis of marketing spend, ROI and commercial KPIs. The role will be responsible for business partnering key stakeholders and budget holders across Global Marketing including the liaisons and local teams. 

What you'll be doing:

• Act as Senior Business Partner to Global Marketing to coordinate budget allocation discussions and marketing effectiveness, by analysing marketing channels, and providing scenario modelling to guide reinvestment or budget reallocation.
• Support on strategic longer-term decision making and budget allocation assumptions through Mid and Long Range Planning.
• Advance the global ROI methodology including global post-campaign analysis.
• Assessing historical and current state performance to provide ROI / KPI benchmarks across business units and channels.
• Support with the development and standardisation of Marketing KPI tracking, including campaign ROI, Customer Acquisition Costs (CAC) and media efficiency, ensuring clear alignment between spend and business outcomes.
• Lead analysis of Marketing investment across Global Marketing and Studio Marketing, delivering consolidated reporting and actionable insights.
• Develop and present business cases for new marketing initiatives, partnerships, and merchandising opportunities to support strategic investment decisions.
• Manage coordination between Planning and Global Marketing to ensure accurate forecasting and reporting of marketing spend and associated revenue performance.
• Drive global consistency in spend tracking by working closely with regional, global and studio teams to establish methodologies, governance and best practices.
• Partner with Analytics teams to support with marketing measurement and attribution journey.

What we're looking for:

• At least 6 years relevant experience or 4 years PQE in a Commercial Finance (FP&A) function and of working with commercial teams or business.

Preferred Qualities: e.g -

• Senior level business partner experience in Sales/Marketing
• Strong financial background with ability to evaluate financial impact of business decisions.
• Excellent interpersonal skills and the ability to maintain effective working relationships.
• Advanced knowledge of Excel (VBA level an advantage).
• SAP / Adaptive experience an advantage
• Knowledge of MMM / MTA / ROAS / CPA / attribution models preferable
• Strong written & verbal communication skills, including the ability to present detailed analyses.
• Organised self-starter, with drive and ambition who thrives under pressure, and is capable of confidently working alongside the most senior stakeholders across the wider business.
• Attention to detail, commitment to accuracy & adherence to deadlines.
• Experience of working in a regional group headquarters.
• Proven track record of similar roles/tasks in Global / Pan regional company in the Entertainment sector (Game/Film/Music)

Editorial Manager – PlayStation Store (Japan Focused)

San Mateo, CA or Tokyo, Japan (Hybrid)

Role Overview:

The Editorial Manager plays a key leadership role in building the PlayStation Store into a true daily destination for players. Sitting directly below the Director, Editorial, this role oversees the execution of global editorial programs and helps shape planning, standards, and workflows across regions.

You will manage core elements of the global editorial engine — from daily and weekly programming to cross-functional coordination, creative briefing, and data-led optimization. You’ll help establish editorial best practices, support innovation, and mentor the wider Editorial team as we elevate the Store experience for more than 100 million players worldwide.

This is a highly cross-functional role, partnering with Product, Creative, Marketing, Store Operations, and global regional teams to ensure cohesive, timely, and impactful editorial delivery across the PlayStation ecosystem.

In addition to its global remit, this role owns editorial planning and execution for the Japan Store, translating global strategy into locally resonant experiences while feeding Japan-specific insights back into worldwide initiatives.

What You’ll Be Doing

Leadership & Ownership

• Lead day-to-day execution of global editorial programs across PlayStation Store surfaces.

• Serve as a key editorial leader, supporting the Director, Editorial in driving vision into operational reality.

• Provide guidance, coaching, and support to Editorial team members and contributors across regions, including close partnership with Japan-based stakeholders.

Editorial Program Delivery

• Oversee creation, curation, and delivery of daily and weekly editorial content, highlights, and narratives across global Store surfaces.

• Manage and refine global content calendars, ensuring visibility, alignment, and quality across regions, with particular attention to Japan as a key market.

• Collaborate with Marketing, Creative, Product, and Store Operations to ensure assets and copy meet PlayStation standards and deadlines across all regions.
  

Global Coordination

• Partner with regional leads (including Japan, UK, and USA) to execute coherent global programs, adapt content for local relevance, and surface regional insights that can inform global planning.

• Act as a key editorial point of contact for Japan, ensuring global plans are effectively translated for the market and that Japan-led perspectives are represented in global discussions.

• Ensure alignment between global plans and regional publishing priorities, promotions, and seasonal beats.

• Maintain strong relationships with cross-functional partners across global time zones.
  

Standards, Process & Quality

• Help define and roll out editorial guidelines, tone-of-voice frameworks, and quality standards for global Store surfaces.

• Apply cultural judgment and market awareness when reviewing or shaping content for global and Japanese audiences, while maintaining consistency and brand integrity.

• Drive continuous improvement across workflows, tooling, and planning rhythms.

• Ensure editorial content is accurate, engaging, inclusive, and aligned with brand and legal requirements.
  

Insights, Data & Experimentation

• Partner with Analytics & Insights teams to evaluate performance of editorial content and programs across global and regional surfaces.

• Use insights from Japan and other regions to identify opportunities for optimisation, A/B testing, and iterative improvement at a global level.

• Support development of new editorial surfaces, formats, and storytelling approaches that advance the Store’s daily-destination vision.
  
  

What We’re Looking For

• 6–10+ years experience in editorial, digital publishing, content strategy, or program management in the video games industry (Japan's gaming industry)

• Experience managing or mentoring editorial teams or content owners is a strong plus.

• Strong writing and editorial judgment, with experience shaping narratives, curation, and player-centric content.

• Proven ability to manage complex content pipelines and deliver consistently at high quality.

• Experience operating in cross-functional, global environments; confident communicator across teams and time zones.

• Deep understanding of gaming culture, trends, and the PlayStation audience, with familiarity with Japan as a key market.

• Analytical mindset and comfort using data to inform decisions and program improvements.

• Highly collaborative, detail-oriented, and able to thrive in a fast-paced environment.

Position Overview:

We have an exciting opportunity at Sony Interactive Entertainment LLC (PlayStation). Our software production organization seeks a senior-level software engineer for our Video Codecs team. This team is a trailblazer in video encoding/decoding technology. Efforts here will contribute to the development of system libraries used for both our current and next generation PlayStation products. You will contribute to the design and implementation of technology used for cloud gaming, remote play, game recording, video streaming and in-game video playback. The software you develop here is the foundation of an SDK for industry leading game and content developers and will change the way video games are played worldwide. If this is you, please apply! 

Responsibilities:

• Drive video codecs architecture design and development for PlayStation SDKs and cloud gaming platform.
• Own multiple encoder/decoder features with strong accountability for quality, performance, and maintainability.
• Conduct system-level performance investigations and lead optimization strategies across CPU and GPU.
• Partner with platform, hardware, and system software teams to investigate and resolve complex, high-priority issues across the codec pipeline.
• Evaluate emerging codec and media technologies and recommend integration strategies for future platforms.

Required Qualifications:

• Extensive experience with GPU programming (HLSL, Vulkan, CUDA) with proven skills in profiling, debugging, and optimizations across CPU and GPU.
• Familiarity with video compression standards (e.g. H.264/H.265, VP9).
• Knowledge of multi-threaded programming and debugging using C and C++
• Proficient with a wide range of development tools, including IDEs, Git/SVN, JIRA
• Proven ability to deliver features from design to validation with clean, efficient code.
• Bachelor's degree or equivalent

Nice to have:

• ML/AI modeling and training experience
• Embedded system experience with multimedia frameworks
• Knowledge of SIMD optimizations on real time systems
• Contributions to open-source projects in multimedia, systems programming, or performance engineering.

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Sr. Director Data Platform Engineering & Operations

San Mateo, CA

The Sr. Director Data Platform Engineering & Operations is a critical leadership role at SIE, responsible for driving innovation and scalability across the company’s data and AI platform ecosystem. This role oversees platforms including Data Infrastructure (Streaming, Ingestion, Warehouse, and Data Ocean), Experimentation and Audience Platforms, and Governance & Data Observability tools.

In this role, you will ensure SIE’s platforms process massive volumes of data, delivering insights that enhance Player, Creator, Publisher, and Enterprise experiences. By enabling data-driven decisions at scale, you will drive the future of personalized gaming, efficient operations, and enterprise productivity through advanced AI and machine learning technologies.

As a strategic leader, you will define and execute the vision for SIE’s data and AI platform ecosystem, ensuring scalable solutions that support key business objectives across gaming, content creation, and enterprise operations. Reporting to the VP of Data & AI, you will lead global teams of engineers and experts to build platforms that democratize data and transform decision-making across the company.  Priority consideration will be given to candidates with proven experience in a previous or current Sr. Director level role. 

This highly cross-functional role works closely with senior leadership in engineering, product, and business to align the platform ecosystem with the organization’s strategic goals.

Key Responsibilities:

Strategic Leadership:

• Define the long-term vision for SIE’s Data and AI Platform ecosystem, aligning with business goals and driving value across Player, Creator, Publisher, and Enterprise touchpoints.
• Lead the development of platforms that process large-scale, real-time data from millions of users, delivering insights to enhance gaming experiences, content creation, and enterprise productivity.
• Build scalable platforms for personalized player experiences, content creation tools, and enterprise efficiency, optimizing performance and cost-effectiveness.

Platform Development & Operations:

• Provide thought leadership in the design, architecture, and execution of the platform ecosystem, ensuring innovation and seamless integration with SIE’s global gaming services and enterprise operations.
• Ensure platforms are optimized for performance, scalability, and reliability, processing billions of data points daily across Player, Creator, Publisher, and Enterprise activities.
• Champion operational excellence by driving continuous improvements in platform cost efficiency, performance, and security to support SIE’s global user base.

Cross-functional Collaboration:

• Collaborate with senior leaders to deliver data and AI solutions that drive value across gaming, content creation, and enterprise operations.
• Work with teams to ensure data platforms improve engagement, content creation, monetization, and efficiency.
• Ensure compliance with privacy, security, and regulatory requirements while supporting scalable data operations.

Innovation & Efficiency:

• Lead efforts to optimize platform performance, reduce costs, and improve data accessibility across gaming and enterprise operations.
• Implement innovative solutions to scale data operations and maximize value from Player, Creator, Publisher, and Enterprise data.
• Drive AI/ML adoption to enhance gaming experiences, content discovery, operational efficiency, and enterprise workflows.

Qualifications:

• Bachelor’s or Master’s degree in Computer Science, Data Engineering, or a related field.

Experience:

Technical Expertise:

• 15+ years of experience in data engineering, platform engineering, or related fields, with deep expertise in designing and building distributed data systems and large-scale data warehouses.
• Proven track record of architecting platforms capable of processing petabytes of data and supporting the real-time ingestion and processing of billions of data points daily across gaming and enterprise domains.
• Extensive experience in building and scaling cloud-native architectures (AWS, Azure, GCP) for data platforms, with a strong focus on high availability, fault tolerance, and cost-efficiency.
• Demonstrated success in growing and evolving data platforms to meet the needs of a rapidly scaling business, ensuring data-driven decisions are made at all levels of the organization.
• Extensive experience with Kafka for data streaming and real-time data ingestion.
• Strong hands-on knowledge of Databricks and Snowflake for scalable data engineering, analytics, and cloud data warehousing.
• Proven experience making buy vs. build decisions, assessing in-house development versus integrating third-party platforms based on cost, scalability, and business needs.
• Expertise with Data Governance tools such as Alation and Collibra for managing data catalogs, compliance, and data quality.
• Knowledge and experience with Data Observability tools to monitor data pipelines and ensure data accuracy, reliability, and transparency.
• Experience with experimentation platforms such as Optimizely, Statsig, and LaunchDarkly, with a focus on A/B testing and feature management.
• Expertise in AI/ML platforms like AWS SageMaker and Databricks MLflow for machine learning model development, deployment, and MLOps practices.

Leadership & Strategic Skills:

• Proven leadership in building and leading high-performing global engineering teams, balancing short-term execution with long-term strategic growth.
• Strong strategic mindset, translating business objectives into scalable technical solutions that deliver value across the organization.
• Excellent communication and collaboration skills, driving impactful solutions across engineering, product, and business teams.

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How would you like to influence the most successful gaming platform of all time by validating the very technology our developers use to build extraordinary games?

Sony Interactive Entertainment (PlayStation) is seeking a Senior Software Development Engineer in Test (SDET) to provide hands-on engineering excellence and technical leadership across our SDK ecosystem. This role focuses on building tools and infrastructure for analyzing the quality of PlayStation CPU compilers (and related technology). While this is the primary domain, there are opportunities to expand into 3D graphics, spatial audio, artificial intelligence, and the fully integrated PlayStation game development environment.

We are looking for someone who wants to directly impact PlayStation technology by building tools and automated systems that deeply analyze SDK components and platform capabilities. You will help strengthen and evolve our testing infrastructure, raise the technical bar for quality engineering, and drive confidence in every release. If you’re passionate about solving complex system-level challenges and influencing technology used by people around the world, we want to hear from you, come help us power the future of PlayStation!

Responsibilities:

Technical Strategy & Architecture

• Own and drive the technical strategy for automation frameworks, test architecture, and CI systems supporting PlayStation® SDK components.

• Define scalable, maintainable automation and infrastructure patterns that support long-term platform growth.

• Lead architectural decisions for test systems spanning C++, embedded firmware (C), and Python-based infrastructure.

• Identify technical risks early and drive mitigation strategies to protect release confidence.

Hands-On Engineering

• Develop, maintain, and improve automated test cases, sample applications, testing tools and frameworks for LLVM-based C/C++ compilers, SDK libraries and low level software (C++)

• Build and improve test infrastructure using Python and Groovy to simplify building, testing, and demonstrating PlayStation® sample applications.

• Monitor test infrastructure, analyze automation failures, improve reliability, and optimize runtime performance.

• Research, evaluate, and integrate new tools and methodologies to improve testing scalability and efficiency.

Team Technical Leadership

• Serve as the technical lead for the QE team. Mentor and elevate engineers through technical guidance, code reviews, design reviews, and delegation.

• Drive technical alignment across development, product, documentation, and cross-regional engineering teams.

• Influence prioritization and technical standards to ensure consistency and engineering excellence.

• Partner closely with software production and offshore teams to create robust test plans, validation strategies, and documentation.

• Raise the overall technical bar by promoting guidelines in automation building, system validation, and debugging difficulty.

Skills and Characteristics

• Strong technical leadership with the ability to influence cross-functional stakeholders.

• Excellent interpersonal skills, including presenting technical direction to both engineers and executives.

• Proven experience leading architectural decisions and complex debugging efforts.

• Self-directed, committed to producing strong results, and passionate about high-quality automation.Source control (e.g. Git) for all systems, including Jenkins Groovy scripts (pipeline as code).

Qualifications

• Bachelors's Degree or Master's Degree in Engineering, Computer Science or equivalent 

• Strong programming proficiency in Python & C++.

• Experience building, running, and debugging software in both Windows & Linux environments.

• Proven experience owning automation strategy or leading technical initiatives.

• Deep understanding of automation trade-offs and architectural design decisions.

Nice-to-Have

• Experience with LLVM technology and a desire to learn all about compilers and their associated toolchains.

• Exposure to Rust, its tooling and the Crate ecosystem

• Prior experience with PlayStation SDK development is helpful.

• Familiarity with Unreal Engine or other game engine technology.

• Containerization technology such as Docker and Kubernetes.

• Distributed build systems such as SN-DBS or IncrediBuild.

Senior Embedded Firmware Engineer

We are building a small team of versatile and enthusiastic leaders to create new products for the PlayStation community. Our team recently delivered the new PlayStation Link, PULSE Explore and PULSE Elite products, recently announced the FlexStrike and PULSE Elevate products, and are hard at work on what comes next. We need an experienced and innovative firmware engineer to help build and support our new products and features.

Come and play with us!

Responsibilities:

In this role, you will lead firmware development for high profile product development efforts. You will be responsible for technical leadership, system architecture, and execution across the firmware domain, working closely with internal teams and external partners.

• Own firmware architecture and design for embedded devices from concept through production
• Drive end-to-end firmware execution including development, integration, validation, and release
• Lead and mentor firmware engineers (internal and external partners) while remaining hands-on
• Develop and define communication protocols to enable peripheral functionality
• Design, implement, and scale low-latency RF/wireless communication protocols for embedded systems
• Architect structured, modular, and reusable firmware frameworks that scale across multiple platforms and product lines
• Ensure firmware designs support cross-platform reuse and long-term scalability
• Collaborate with hardware, software, and UX teams to define and deliver product requirements
• Establish and drive modern firmware development practices (code reviews, CI/CD, testing frameworks)
• Develop and manage hardware-in-the-loop (HIL) and automated test systems
• Troubleshoot complex system-level issues across hardware, firmware, and RF domains
• Support manufacturing builds and coordinate firmware activities during product bring-up
• Support and enhance products post-launch
• Prototype new features on new hardware platforms

Skills:

• Strong embedded firmware development experience in C/C++
• Strong experience with RF/wireless systems (e.g., Bluetooth, low-latency audio, or similar technologies)
• Deep understanding of low-latency embedded systems and communication protocol design
• Proven ability to design scalable, reusable, and cross-platform firmware architectures
• Experience with ARM microcontrollers and low-power system design
• Hands-on experience with hardware bring-up and debugging (including RF/system-level issues)
• Experience implementing hardware-in-the-loop and automated testing
• Strong system-level thinking across hardware and software boundaries
• Ability to operate at both high-level system design and low-level implementation
• Proven ability to lead firmware efforts across teams and partners
• Experience with consumer electronics product development from concept through mass production
• Strong problem-solving and debugging skills

Qualifications:

• Bachelor’s degree in electrical engineering, Computer Engineering, Computer Science, or related field (or equivalent experience)
• 8 years of experience in embedded firmware development
• Demonstrated experience leading firmware development for shipped products
• Strong experience in RF/wireless or low-latency embedded systems
• Excellent written and verbal communication skills
• Passion for gaming, digital entertainment, and consumer electronics is a plus

Nice to Have

• Experience with wireless audio or ultra-low latency systems
• Experience working with external development partners or ODMs
• Experience with kernel or driver development (Linux, Windows, or similar)
• Experience scaling engineering processes and mentoring teams

Working Conditions:

• Small team environment; feels like a start-up within a large organization!
• Travel (domestic and international) required. Estimated 15%

Senior Product Manager, Accounts & Identity

San Mateo, CA or San Diego, CA (hybrid) 

At PlayStation, every great gaming moment starts with reliable and secure access. The Accounts & Identity team designs and builds the identity systems that power access, protection, and confidence for millions of players across console, PC, mobile, and web.

Our team seeks a Senior Product Manager to shape the future of PlayStation’s Identity Platform spanning identity, account access, and scalable privacy foundations that protect user data and enable choice and control. This role helps shape platform-level capabilities supporting data rights, consent, and evolving privacy expectations, alongside secure and seamless access experiences. You’ll partner with vertical teams, strengthen device and user trust, and evolve PlayStation’s intelligent, risk-based platform for current and future generations of consoles and experiences.

What You’ll Do

• Lead the vision, roadmap, and execution for the Identity Platform that enables secure, frictionless player access across every PlayStation surface.
• Partner with Product Security, Global Fraud, Privacy, Legal, Online Safety, and User Experience Design & Research to build trusted, player-friendly systems.
• Collaborate with console, client, and server engineering groups to deliver scalable, reliable identity services and experiences.
• Define measurable outcomes, success metrics, and indicators that track login reliability, account protection, and friction reduction.
• Drive go-to-market and rollout readiness in partnership with marketing, regional, and support teams so new identity capabilities land smoothly worldwide.
• Use data-informed insights to balance security, privacy, and convenience, ensuring PlayStation accounts stay secure and accessible.
• Translate complex technical capabilities into intuitive player experiences.
• Represent the voice of the player and champion PlayStation values of passion, innovation, and inclusivity in every decision.
  
  

What We’re Looking For

Must-have

• Bachelor’s degree in a business or technical field, or equivalent experience.
• 6+ years of product management experience, including taking technical products from conception to launch in close partnership with engineering and design.
• Proven success driving horizontal product strategies that span devices or services.
• Proficiency discussing APIs, data models, and trust systems; strong analytical approach.
• Excellent collaboration and communication skills
  
  

Nice-to-have

• Experience in consumer identity, authentication, account security, fraud or risk signals in user flows.
• Hands-on familiarity with OAuth 2.0, OpenID Connect, FIDO2, or WebAuthn.

Principal Engineer, Developer Experience (DevEx)

Location: Hybrid / Remote Eligible

Why PlayStation

At PlayStation, we build the platforms and services behind some of the world’s most iconic entertainment experiences.

As our engineering organization grows, Developer Experience (DevEx) has become a strategic focus. We are investing in a unified, intelligent, and opinionated engineering ecosystem that enables teams to move faster, build with confidence, and focus on creating value.

This role helps shape how engineering is done across PlayStation.

The Role

We are looking for a Principal Engineer to lead Developer Experience (DevEx) at scale.

In this role, you will treat developer experience as a product—driving platform adoption, reducing friction across the software development lifecycle, and delivering measurable improvements in productivity, quality, and reliability.

You will work across organizations, partnering with senior engineering leaders to influence standards, platforms, and long-term technical direction.

What You’ll Do

• Define and drive the DevEx strategy across PlayStation.

• Own developer experience as a product, with clear roadmaps and success metrics.

• Identify and eliminate friction across the software development lifecycle.

• Drive platform-first adoption of CI/CD, testing, and lifecycle automation.

• Define and promote golden paths for building, deploying, and operating services.

• Lead the evolution of lifecycle automation platforms.

• Reduce tooling fragmentation through consolidation and strong defaults.

• Influence engineering practices to improve delivery speed, quality, and reliability.

• Partner with senior leaders to align DevEx investments with business priorities.

• Represent DevEx strategy in senior technical and leadership forums.

What We’re Looking For

• Experience leading large-scale platform, infrastructure, or developer productivity initiatives.

• Ability to influence engineering practices across multiple teams or organizations.

• Strong understanding of CI/CD, testing, deployment, and service operations.

• Experience balancing standardization with developer autonomy.

• Proven ability to translate technical strategy into measurable outcomes.

• Clear and effective communication skills.

• Bachelor's degree or equivalent

Nice to Have

• Experience building internal platforms as products.

• Familiarity with developer portals (e.g., Backstage).

• Experience with application lifecycle management or automation at scale.

• Exposure to AI-assisted engineering or automation workflows.

• Passion for improving developer experience and engineering excellence.

Why You’ll Love This Role

• Shape how engineering is done at PlayStation.

• Impact thousands of developers and millions of players.

• Work on long-term, high-impact platform initiatives.

• Partner with strong technical leaders across the company.

• Turn developer pain points into durable, scalable solutions.

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®Plus, and 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 Corporation.

Senior Manager, Software Engineering (Client Platform)

San Mateo, CA - Hybrid 

PlayStation is building the future of connected gaming experiences through a unified platform powering services and experiences across consoles, clients, and the cloud. We are seeking a Senior Software Engineering Manager to lead our Client Experiences team. You’ll own the technical strategy, people leadership, and execution, scaling them from 0→1 and 1→N. You’ll manage managers and senior ICs, partner with Product, Design, Research and Security, and set a culture of high‑velocity delivery with reliability and safety.

Responsibilities

• Lead and grow a dedicated client engineering team, ensuring delivery on roadmaps that prioritize user delight, modularity, multi-platform architecture, and global scalability.

• Evangelize the multi-platform strategy across PlayStation by partnering closely with engineering leaders across platforms and client teams to align on integration, adoption, and long-term technical direction.

• Multi-surface architecture: strike the right balance between native excellence and shared code; build a coherent design system and navigation model that spans phone, tablet, desktop, and web.

• Build and lead high‑impact teams (hiring, coaching, performance, career paths); manage managers and staff engineers. Mentor and coach engineers to grow their careers, fostering a culture of technical excellence, inclusivity, and innovation.

• Own the Platform: Define the North Star platform architecture, set Performance and Reliability KPIs, and Release Engineering specifics to ship predictably. 

• Culture & process: set clear operating rhythms, foster autonomy with accountability, and raise the bar on engineering quality. Be a champion of advocating AI first team mindset.

• Collaborate with global teams across San Mateo, Tokyo, London, and more to drive consistent adoption and integration of platform services.

• Partner with leadership and stakeholders to translate strategic priorities into executable technical roadmaps that advance the PlayStation ecosystem.

• Drive continuous improvement in developer tooling, CI/CD pipelines, service performance, and observability to accelerate the developer experience.
  

Required Qualifications

• BS/MS in Computer Science or equivalent. 

• 5+ years leading client/mobile/web teams in engineering leadership roles; 2+ years managing managers and senior/staff ICs.

• Track record shipping large‑scale native apps and/or complex web apps with strict performance, reliability, and privacy requirements. Prior experience in releasing globally distributed applications impacting millions of users.

• Strong technical background in software development with proven success building and shipping mobile and desktop applications

• Experience with React Native and Native mobile technologies iOS/iPadOS, with broader familiarity with desktop architecture, such as Windows and MacOS. 

• Track record of recruiting, scaling, and retaining engineering talent in a high-growth environment. Demonstrated success in coaching and mentoring engineers, balancing delivery with individual growth.

• Excellent leadership and communication skills, with the ability to work effectively across functions

• Successfully promoted a culture of belonging and engineering excellence

Desired Qualifications

• Depth in at least two of: Swift/Kotlin, TypeScript/React, language stacks. 

• Familiarity with iOS/Android or MacOS/Windows OS platforms.

• Knowledge of GraphQL, including schema design and federation is a plus

• Familiarity with CI/CD pipelines, service observability (metrics, logging, tracing), and production incident management. 

Equal Opportunity Statement:

Sony is an Equal Opportunity Employer. All persons will receive consideration for employment without regard to gender (including gender identity, gender expression and gender reassignment), race (including colour, nationality, ethnic or national origin), religion or belief, marital or civil partnership status, disability, age, sexual orientation, pregnancy or maternity, trade union membership or membership in any other legally protected category.

We strive to create an inclusive environment, empower employees and embrace diversity. We encourage everyone to respond.

We have an exciting opportunity at Sony Interactive Entertainment LLC (PlayStation). Our software production organization seeks a software engineer for our Platform Audio team. This team is a trailblazer in audio technology. Efforts here will contribute to the development of system libraries used for both our current and next generation PlayStation products. You will drive the design and implementation of technology used for 3D audio, hardware DSP, and virtual reality. The software you develop here is the foundation of an SDK for industry leading game and content developers and will change the way audio is used worldwide. If this is you, please apply! 

Responsibilities:

• Drive algorithm development and implementation in spatial audio, psychoacoustics, and other audio related fields including HRTF (capture, synthesis, personalization), Ambisonics, loudspeaker rendering, and more

• Develop requirements based on research or user input and assist with platform integration

• Systems level multi-threaded programming and debugging using C and C++

• Collaborate with international counterparts to contribute to PlayStation’s Tempest 3D Audio technology and our greater audio ecosystem

Qualifications:

• 5 years or more of digital signal processing experience

• Proficient in: C/C++, Python

• Experience as a technical contributor to a project involving spatial audio

• Solid understanding of basic acoustic and psychoacoustic principles

• Bachelor's degree or equivalent

Nice-to-Have:

• Basic source control experience (git)

• Knowledge of audio production tools and software (e.g. Reaper, VST Development)

• Embedded systems development

• Graphics or GPU programming experience

• ML/AI modeling and training experience

• Experience in developing novel audio technologies

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Head of Global Creative and Product Development Operations – Licensed Merchandise

San Mateo, CA (Collab)/Remote 

Job Description

We are looking for an experienced Head of Global Creative and Product Development Operations on the Licensed Merchandise Team with strong global operations, creative, and licensing experience to manage the global creative and product development team.

The ideal candidate will have a passion for processes, deadlines, consumer trends, and the ability to drive creative excellence across various projects.

You have a proven track record for working on large IP projects and culturally relevant programs with partners across hardlines and softlines categories to grow the PlayStation brand and our software IP titles.

This role will oversee the creative and product development processes and teams, as well as coordinate all milestones to successfully go to market across the entire Licensed Merchandise Team.

You will partner closely with the Licensing leads, licensees and gaming studios, franchise, retail marketing and other cross-functional teams, to bring the global vision, strategy, and operational plan to life.

This role will work with executives and stakeholders, internally and externally, to deliver business results. We are seeking an out-of-the-box thinker, who can operate proactively in a fast-paced environment and is able to wear many hats.

Responsibilities:

• Team management and experience coaching

• Detailed understanding of the product development processes, production, and manufacturing, timelines

• Lead full concept to production lifecycle for creative assets , ensuring teams deliver on time, on budget and at scale

• Design and implement streamlined workflows to improve speed, consistency and quality

• Lead the planning and development of style guides, creative assets, PD tools, and serving as the primary driver behind the creation process

• Collaborate with external agencies to source talent and manage the execution of creative projects, ensuring alignment with brand standards and objectives

• Guide creative collaboration throughout the project lifecycle

• Lead all stages of product development across all categories for any licensing deal or collaborations

• Undertake general design tasks to support Licensing team’s efforts, including but not limited to branding, packaging, promotional and marketing collateral trade show needs, and sales materials

Skills and Qualifications:

• Bachelor’s degree in Project Management, Design, Marketing, or a related field

• Proven experience (15-20 years) in a creative leadership role, within the licensing and consumer products industry

• Proficiency in project management tools

• Strong project management abilities, including the capacity to prioritize tasks, meet deadlines, and manage resources effectively

• Excellent communication and interpersonal skills, with the ability to collaborate across departments and influence stakeholders at all levels

• A strategic mindset with a deep understanding of market trends, consumer behavior, and brand positioning

• Gaming or Entertainment experience preferred

• Proven experience to manage studios (film, series or game) in the creation of product development

Public Relations Strategist (Contract)

San Mateo, California

*Please note, this is a temporary position, ranging from 6 to 12 months in duration. This role has a hybrid schedule, with a minimum of one day per week on-site and additional in-office days as needed, needing the candidate to be within driving distance of SIE Headquarters in San Mateo. We aim to provide flexibility while ensuring the support and collaboration essential to our team’s success. Applications from fully remote candidates will still be considered.

The Public Relations Strategist will work across PlayStation’s software portfolio, helping to execute product launches & events and supporting the department’s daily activities. As a key contributor to the software publicity team, this individual will help tell impactful stories across gaming and consumer media for one of the world’s leading entertainment companies. The ideal candidate has a passion for media relations, excellent writing skills and a strong attention to detail. They thrive on collaboration and are eager to gain experience on a dynamic, fast-paced team.

Responsibilities:

• Support global PR efforts for PlayStation’s exclusive games, working with PlayStation Studios, development partners, and cross-functional collaborators to deliver positive results and measurable media return on investment.

• Help to manage and execute key tactics, such as media outreach, messaging development, event coordination, speaking opportunities, coverage reporting and asset distribution.

• Develop written materials to support game launches, including press releases, fact sheets, messaging/Q&As, briefing materials, etc.

• Collaborate with the broader SIE Communications team, including platforms, services, corporate, and social media (content communications) to contribute to broader brand narratives and initiatives for both external and internal audiences.

Qualifications:

• Bachelor's degree with 5+ years of public relations experience, ideally working with consumer-facing brands or products.

• Experience managing projects and the ability to work collaboratively with others across a large global organization.

• Strong media relations experience with various outlets across consumer, technology, and business press.

• Skilled in handling multiple projects with the ability to work effectively across a large distributed team environment.

• Experience working for or with an external PR agency is preferred; in-house PR experience is a plus.

• Strong communication skills including written, verbal, and interpersonal.

• Proficiency in using Microsoft Office Suite, Google Apps, Slack, AI tools like ChatGPT and Copilot, etc.

Manager, Design Systems

San Francisco Bay Area

The group works horizontally across all PlayStation consumer products and platforms to provide product design teams with the component libraries and design documentation needed to design the world’s most desired gaming products. They encourage cohesion across our product areas while also allowing for innovation and creativity to push the system forward. They have a mastery of our design tools and tame the many projects in flight by evangelizing consistent process and structure.

As a Design Systems Manager, you’ll lead a team responsible for building and evolving cohesive, scalable UI components and design tokens across multiple platforms. You’ll uphold and refine the standards, contribution practices, and governance that keep the system consistent, usable, and sustainable over time. You see the big picture but really sweat the details. You’ll partner closely with Product and Engineering to support adoption across products while balancing long-term integrity with practical needs.

What you’ll do

• Lead the design quality and evolution of UI components, design tokens, and supporting documentation across platforms.

• Guide the development of individual components and larger patterns, ensuring scalability, consistency, and accessibility.

• Maintain healthy, usable Figma libraries and clear system documentation.

• Establish and uphold component lifecycle governance, contribution guidelines, and quality review processes.

• Manage the design backlog and system design debt, triaging requests and partnering with Product to shape priorities and roadmap plans.

• Partner closely with Engineering, Product, and Design teams to resolve implementation friction and ensure production readiness.

• Develop adoption strategy and measurement to drive system consumption.

• Navigate and organize complex and often ambiguous problem spaces

• Coordinate cross-team and cross-regional dependencies.

• Manage, coach, and develop designers while fostering a culture of systems thinking, craft excellence, and accountability.

What we’re looking for

• A strong portfolio demonstrating multi-platform design system experience and product thinking.

• Experience leading, coaching, and developing designers, including performance and career growth.

• Deep knowledge of design system governance, component lifecycle management, and scalable design practices.

• Experience shaping roadmaps, managing priorities, and driving measurable adoption in partnership with Product and Engineering.

• Demonstrated ability to collaborate cross-functionally and clearly communicate decisions and rationale to diverse stakeholders.

• Expertise in accessibility standards and inclusive design principles.

• A structured and organized approach to work that brings clarity to complex or ambiguous environments.

• A strategic mindset with experience navigating ambiguity and contributing to long-term system evolution.

Bonus points:

• Experience working on consumer gaming or media products.

• Experience working with distributed or global teams and designing for international audiences.

• Familiarity with front-end technologies such as React and CSS.

Staff Data Scientist -  Experimentation & Measurement 

San Mateo, CA (Hybrid)

Overview:

As a Staff Data Scientist on the Decision Science team at PlayStation, you will take a leading role in designing and interpreting experiments that evaluate the impact of key initiatives and programs. You’ll help shape how millions of players around the world experience PlayStation by bringing statistical rigor, clear measurement strategies, and deep causal inference expertise to some of the most critical initiatives across the company. This highly visible role will advance our experimentation practices and ensure that data-driven insights inform the way we build, market, and evolve our products.

What You’ll Be Doing:

• Design, execute, and interpret A/B tests and quasi-experiments, and apply advanced causal inference methods when experimentation isn’t feasible.
• Partner with cross-functional teams (product, engineering, marketing) to embed experimentation into development and iteration cycles and communicate results with the company’s senior leadership.
• Mentor and guide other Data Scientists, providing thought leadership and technical direction.
• Serve as a thought leader on best practices for hypothesis development, metric selection, test structure, and results communication.
• Help define and contribute to centralized experimentation frameworks, tools, and documentation to scale best practices across the company.
• Independently extract, transform, and analyze data from complex systems using SQL, Python, and other analytics tools.
• Communicate findings clearly to technical and non-technical stakeholders, helping drive business decisions with rigor and clarity.
• Stay current on new methodologies in experimentation and causal analysis, and bring fresh perspectives to the team’s work.
• Your insights will directly influence how PlayStation builds, markets, and evolves products across our ecosystem.

Basic Requirements:

• Bachelor’s degree or equivalent.
• 6+ years of experience in a data science experimentation/causal inference-focused role (4+ with PhD).
• Deep expertise in A/B testing and causal inference, including quasi-experimental methods.
• Proficiency in SQL and Python for data extraction, transformation, and analysis.
• Broad and applied knowledge of statistical techniques.
• Experience with machine learning modeling is a plus.
• Proven ability to influence product and business decisions through clear, actionable insights.
• Experience contributing to or developing experimentation frameworks, best practices, or internal tooling.
  
  Preferred Requirements:
  • Master’s or PhD in Statistics, Economics, or Econometrics. Other degrees in quantitative disciplines may be considered.
  • Bonus: Interest in or knowledge of video games, gaming platforms, or player behavior.

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Principal Engineer, Developer Experience (DevEx)

Location: Hybrid / Remote Eligible

Why PlayStation

At PlayStation, we build the platforms and services behind some of the world’s most iconic entertainment experiences.

As our engineering organization grows, Developer Experience (DevEx) has become a strategic focus. We are investing in a unified, intelligent, and opinionated engineering ecosystem that enables teams to move faster, build with confidence, and focus on creating value.

This role helps shape how engineering is done across PlayStation.

The Role

We are looking for a Principal Engineer to lead Developer Experience (DevEx) at scale.

In this role, you will treat developer experience as a product—driving platform adoption, reducing friction across the software development lifecycle, and delivering measurable improvements in productivity, quality, and reliability.

You will work across organizations, partnering with senior engineering leaders to influence standards, platforms, and long-term technical direction.

What You’ll Do

• Define and drive the DevEx strategy across PlayStation.

• Own developer experience as a product, with clear roadmaps and success metrics.

• Identify and eliminate friction across the software development lifecycle.

• Drive platform-first adoption of CI/CD, testing, and lifecycle automation.

• Define and promote golden paths for building, deploying, and operating services.

• Lead the evolution of lifecycle automation platforms.

• Reduce tooling fragmentation through consolidation and strong defaults.

• Influence engineering practices to improve delivery speed, quality, and reliability.

• Partner with senior leaders to align DevEx investments with business priorities.

• Represent DevEx strategy in senior technical and leadership forums.

What We’re Looking For

• Experience leading large-scale platform, infrastructure, or developer productivity initiatives.

• Ability to influence engineering practices across multiple teams or organizations.

• Strong understanding of CI/CD, testing, deployment, and service operations.

• Experience balancing standardization with developer autonomy.

• Proven ability to translate technical strategy into measurable outcomes.

• Clear and effective communication skills.

• Bachelor's degree or equivalent

Nice to Have

• Experience building internal platforms as products.

• Familiarity with developer portals (e.g., Backstage).

• Experience with application lifecycle management or automation at scale.

• Exposure to AI-assisted engineering or automation workflows.

• Passion for improving developer experience and engineering excellence.

Why You’ll Love This Role

• Shape how engineering is done at PlayStation.

• Impact thousands of developers and millions of players.

• Work on long-term, high-impact platform initiatives.

• Partner with strong technical leaders across the company.

• Turn developer pain points into durable, scalable solutions.

Analyst, Commercial Insights – Services 

San Mateo, CA (Collab)/Remote 

Role Overview 

PlayStation is looking for an innovative, detail-oriented, highly motivated Analyst to join our PlayStation Services team. Services sits within the Global Sales and Business Operations organization that manages the PlayStation Plus subscription business, a key revenue generator and innovator for Sony Interactive Entertainment. This role sits within the Planning and Insights team responsible for leading analytics operational excellence in commercial performance, planning, and strategy.  

This role is responsible for insightful and actionable analytics support of our subscription services from a commercial planning standpoint. You will play a critical role in creating data reporting tools, developing methodologies for measuring and forecasting impact to subscriptions, and delivering analytical insights on the performance of offers & promotions, pricing and experience optimizations.  The work you do will directly impact decisions made about the offers and experience made available to PlayStation Plus members. Effective verbal and written communication skills are extremely important, as s/he will collaborate with key stakeholders across a global organization.  

What you will be doing 

• Support the Services Insights team with analysis of commercial and engagement trends across the PlayStation Plus user base, using these insights to inform strategic decisions and improve performance measurability 

• Working across our Commercial, Engagement & Experience and CRO teams, you will be responsible for exploring our subscriptions data for novel insights, deconstructing complex datasets to help improve knowledge of our users 

• Creating recursive frameworks for long term monitoring of business initiatives, helping to identify opportunities for growth and reduce reporting cycle time 

• Working with our Engineering and Reporting teams to democratise insights into actionable outputs 

• Support efforts to optimise our business with experimentation and A/B testing 

• Partner closely with stakeholders within GSBO and other supporting teams to understand and deliver business insights using data 

• Collaborate with data teams across SIE to understand and utilise available tools and resources while contributing learnings and business area expertise to the organization  

What we are looking for 

• Bachelors Degree in a quantitative or computational field or equivalent

• 5+ years experience in analytics related roles 

• Proficient at translating ambiguous business requirements into meaningful analytical insights from start to finish  

• Skilled with SQL, Python and spreadsheet applications (Excel, Google sheets). 

• Knowledge of statistical concepts, subscription metrics and A/B testing 

• Keen attention to detail and ability to deliver high quality analytical work 

• Proven experience creating data visualizations and reports to surface actionable insights  

• Excellent communication skills (written and verbal) 

• Ability to work collaboratively with stakeholders across different teams and levels 

• Strong project management, multi-tasking and organizational skills 

• Ability to adapt quickly in a dynamic, changing, fast-paced business environment 

• Ability to work varying hours as well as a flexible approach to working hours to support global business operations 

Preferred Qualifications 

• Strong technical proficiencies with SQL, Python, Airflow 

• Skilled with visualization tools like Domo, Power BI, Tableau 

• Interest in the gaming industry 

• Knowledge of digital gaming landscape, key players, and competitive offerings 

• Prior experience with subscription businesses preferred 

Analyst, Commercial Insights – Services 

London, UK (Collab)

Role Overview 

PlayStation is looking for an innovative, detail-oriented, highly motivated Analyst to join our PlayStation Services team. Services sits within the Global Sales and Business Operations organization that manages the PlayStation Plus subscription business, a key revenue generator and innovator for Sony Interactive Entertainment. This role sits within the Planning and Insights team responsible for leading analytics operational excellence in commercial performance, planning, and strategy.  

This role is responsible for insightful and actionable analytics support of our subscription services from a commercial planning standpoint. You will play a critical role in creating data reporting tools, developing methodologies for measuring and forecasting impact to subscriptions, and delivering analytical insights on the performance of offers & promotions, pricing and experience optimizations.  The work you do will directly impact decisions made about the offers and experience made available to PlayStation Plus members. Effective verbal and written communication skills are extremely important, as s/he will collaborate with key stakeholders across a global organization.  

What you will be doing 

• Support the Services Insights team with analysis of commercial and engagement trends across the PlayStation Plus user base, using these insights to inform strategic decisions and improve performance measurability 

• Working across our Commercial, Engagement & Experience and CRO teams, you will be responsible for exploring our subscriptions data for novel insights, deconstructing complex datasets to help improve knowledge of our users 

• Creating recursive frameworks for long term monitoring of business initiatives, helping to identify opportunities for growth and reduce reporting cycle time 

• Working with our Engineering and Reporting teams to democratise insights into actionable outputs 

• Support efforts to optimise our business with experimentation and A/B testing 

• Partner closely with stakeholders within GSBO and other supporting teams to understand and deliver business insights using data 

• Collaborate with data teams across SIE to understand and utilise available tools and resources while contributing learnings and business area expertise to the organization  

What we are looking for 

• Bachelors Degree in a quantitative or computational field or equivalent

• 5+ years experience in analytics related roles 

• Proficient at translating ambiguous business requirements into meaningful analytical insights from start to finish  

• Skilled with SQL, Python and spreadsheet applications (Excel, Google sheets). 

• Knowledge of statistical concepts, subscription metrics and A/B testing 

• Keen attention to detail and ability to deliver high quality analytical work 

• Proven experience creating data visualizations and reports to surface actionable insights  

• Excellent communication skills (written and verbal) 

• Ability to work collaboratively with stakeholders across different teams and levels 

• Strong project management, multi-tasking and organizational skills 

• Ability to adapt quickly in a dynamic, changing, fast-paced business environment 

• Ability to work varying hours as well as a flexible approach to working hours to support global business operations 

Preferred Qualifications 

• Strong technical proficiencies with SQL, Python, Airflow 

• Skilled with visualization tools like Domo, Power BI, Tableau 

• Interest in the gaming industry 

• Knowledge of digital gaming landscape, key players, and competitive offerings 

• Prior experience with subscription businesses preferred 

How would you like to influence the most successful gaming platform of all time by validating the very technology our developers use to build extraordinary games?

Sony Interactive Entertainment (PlayStation) is seeking a Senior Software Development Engineer in Test (SDET) to provide hands-on engineering excellence and technical leadership across our SDK ecosystem. This role focuses on analyzing and validating real-world audio and video codecs used throughout PlayStation system software. While this is the primary domain, there are opportunities to expand into other areas such as graphics, spatial audio, and the fully integrated PlayStation game development environment.

We are looking for someone who wants to directly impact PlayStation technology by building tools and automated systems that deeply analyze SDK components and platform capabilities. You will help strengthen and evolve our testing infrastructure, raise the technical bar for quality engineering, and drive confidence in every release. If you’re passionate about solving complex system-level challenges and influencing technology used by people around the world, we want to hear from you, come help us power the future of PlayStation!

Responsibilities:

Technical Strategy & Architecture

• Own and drive the technical strategy for automation frameworks, test architecture, and CI systems supporting PlayStation® SDK components.

• Define scalable, maintainable automation and infrastructure patterns that support long-term platform growth.

• Lead architectural decisions for test systems spanning C++, embedded firmware (C), and Python-based infrastructure.

• Identify technical risks early and drive mitigation strategies to protect release confidence.

Hands-On Engineering

• Develop, maintain, and improve automated test cases, testing tools and frameworks for SDK libraries and low level software (C++)

• Build and improve test infrastructure using Python and Groovy to simplify building, testing, and demonstrating PlayStation® sample applications.

• Monitor test infrastructure, analyze automation failures, improve reliability, and optimize runtime performance.

• Research, evaluate, and integrate new tools and methodologies to improve testing scalability and efficiency.

Team Technical Leadership

• Serve as the technical lead for the QE team. Mentor and elevate engineers through technical guidance, code reviews, design reviews, and delegation.

• Drive technical alignment across development, product, documentation, and cross-regional engineering teams.

• Influence prioritization and technical standards to ensure consistency and engineering excellence.

• Partner closely with software production and offshore teams to create robust test plans, validation strategies, and documentation.

• Raise the overall technical bar by promoting guidelines in automation building, system validation, and debugging difficulty.

Skills and Characteristics

• Strong technical leadership with the ability to influence cross-functional stakeholders.

• Excellent interpersonal skills, including presenting technical direction to both engineers and executives.

• Proven experience leading architectural decisions and complex debugging efforts.

• Self-directed, committed to producing strong results, and passionate about high-quality automation.

Qualifications

• Bachelors's Degree or Master's Degree in Engineering, Computer Science or equivalent 

• Strong programming proficiency in Python & C++.

• Experience building, running, and debugging software in Windows environments.

• Proven experience owning automation strategy or leading technical initiatives.

• Deep understanding of automation trade-offs and architectural design decisions.

Nice-to-Have

• Experience running and debugging scripts/tools on Linux.

• Prior experience with PlayStation SDK development.

• Experience writing unit and integration tests at scale.

• Japanese language familiarity.

Software Engineer II - Android Security

San Diego, CA

You will be a key member of our Portal team, developing the core OS for our next-generation platform to enhance the PlayStation ecosystem. Contribute to the evolution of mobile gaming and entertainment for millions of users worldwide.

Responsibilities: 

• Build and integrate firmware and frameworks across device teams to enhance efficiency and collaboration.

• Drive the development of DRM and security solutions for mobile and media apps.

• Bring up Android on new hardware.

• Collaborate closely with international teams of UI designers and product managers (USA, Japan, UK) to translate requirements into a secure device platform.

• Represent the team in technical forums by presenting designs, sharing knowledge, and contributing insights to other Sony software development groups.

• Identify performance bottlenecks and craft solutions to improve customer delight.

Required Qualifications:

• Bachelor’s or Master’s degree in Computer Science or a related field, or equivalent practical experience.

• 5+ years of experience in developing Android, SELinus, embedded systems, and firmware interfaces.

• Familiarity with isolation technologies such as Arm TrustZone, secure monitor, or memory protection.

• Experience with implementing WideVine and PlayReady DRM.  

• Background in secure boot, key provisioning, firmware hardening, and trusted computing.

• Solid understanding of firmware attack surfaces: fault injection, code injection, privilege escalation.

• Experience with advanced attack surfaces like side-channel or fault attacks.

• Proficiency in C++ and Android / AOSP (Java/Kotlin and Android Studio) development.

Desired Qualifications:

• Exposure to TPMs, Secure Elements, or hardware-backed crypto modules.

Staff Software Engineer, React Native  

San Mateo, CA (Hybrid)

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®Plus, and acclaimed PlayStation software titles from PlayStation Studios, and more. 

At PlayStation, we strive 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 Corporation. 

Are you looking for a challenge? 

We are seeking a Staff Software Engineer specializing in React Native and high-performance frontend development for mobile and desktop platforms. In this role, you will define the architecture, frameworks, and technical best practices that drive PlayStation’s mobile and desktop user experiences. 

You will collaborate closely with native macOS engineers, product, and design teams to deliver best-in-class user interfaces that are performant, accessible, and delightful at scale. As a Staff Engineer, you will provide technical leadership across teams, mentor engineers, and push the boundaries of what’s possible in cross-platform frontend development. 

Responsibilities 

• Define and evolve the frontend architecture for PlayStation client applications on mobile using React Native and modern JavaScript/TypeScript. 

• Drive performance optimizations and best practices for rendering, startup time, and UI responsiveness. 

• Collaborate with native platform engineers (C++/Objective-C/Swift) to design and integrate custom native modules and optimize cross-platform interoperability. 

• Apply architectural design patterns such as MVC, MVVM, MVP to develop a sustainable and reusable codebase. 

• Partner with product managers, designers, and researchers to translate user experience requirements into elegant, maintainable solutions. 

• Establish coding standards, testing strategies, and development patterns that raise the quality bar for frontend engineering. 

• Mentor engineers and act as a multiplier for frontend development expertise across the broader team. 

• Investigate new frontend technologies, frameworks, and performance techniques, and guide their adoption when appropriate. 

• Represent frontend/OS needs in technical and architectural discussions across Sony Interactive Entertainment.
  
   

 Required Qualifications 

• 8+ years of software development experience, with significant experience building React Native apps or high-performance JavaScript/TypeScript applications. 

• BS/MS degree in Computer Science or equivalent. 

• Strong expertise in frontend performance profiling, optimization, and debugging. 

• Passion for delivering world-class user interfaces with exceptional performance. 

• Deep understanding of cross-platform architecture and how to bridge between JS and native modules. 

• Proven track record of delivering production-quality mobile or desktop applications with React Native. 

• Experience designing scalable frontend architectures and reusable UI frameworks. 

• Strong collaboration skills and ability to work closely with native engineers, designers, and product managers. 

• Demonstrated technical leadership: leading projects, mentoring engineers, or setting engineering strategy. 

Desired Qualifications 

• Familiarity with iOS development and native bridging concepts (C++, Objective-C, Swift). 

• Experience with accessibility, internationalization, and UI testing frameworks. 

• Contributions to open-source React Native or frontend libraries. 

• Familiarity with CI/CD pipelines and modern build systems for frontend development. 

• Experience working with globally distributed teams. 

How would you like to influence the most successful gaming platform of all time by validating the very technology our developers use to build extraordinary games?

Sony Interactive Entertainment (PlayStation) is seeking a Senior Software Development Engineer in Test (SDET) to provide hands-on engineering excellence and technical leadership across our SDK ecosystem. This role focuses on analyzing and validating SDK libraries, samples, and tools used throughout PlayStation system software. While this is the primary domain, there are opportunities to expand into 3D graphics, spatial audio, artificial intelligence, and the fully integrated PlayStation game development environment.

We are looking for someone who wants to directly impact PlayStation technology by building tools and automated systems that deeply analyze SDK components and platform capabilities. You will help strengthen and evolve our testing infrastructure, raise the technical bar for quality engineering, and drive confidence in every release. If you’re passionate about solving complex system-level challenges and influencing technology used by people around the world, we want to hear from you, come help us power the future of PlayStation!

Responsibilities:

Technical Strategy & Architecture

• Own and drive the technical strategy for automation frameworks, test architecture, and CI systems supporting PlayStation® SDK components.

• Define scalable, maintainable automation and infrastructure patterns that support long-term platform growth.

• Lead architectural decisions for test systems spanning C++, embedded firmware (C), and Python-based infrastructure.

• Identify technical risks early and drive mitigation strategies to protect release confidence.

Hands-On Engineering

• Develop, maintain, and improve automated test cases, testing tools and frameworks for SDK libraries and low level software (C++)

• Build and improve test infrastructure using Python and Groovy to simplify building, testing, and demonstrating PlayStation® sample applications.

• Monitor test infrastructure, analyze automation failures, improve reliability, and optimize runtime performance.

• Research, evaluate, and integrate new tools and methodologies to improve testing scalability and efficiency.

Team Technical Leadership

• Serve as the technical lead for the QE team. Mentor and elevate engineers through technical guidance, code reviews, design reviews, and delegation.

• Drive technical alignment across development, product, documentation, and cross-regional engineering teams.

• Influence prioritization and technical standards to ensure consistency and engineering excellence.

• Partner closely with software production and offshore teams to create robust test plans, validation strategies, and documentation.

• Raise the overall technical bar by promoting guidelines in automation building, system validation, and debugging difficulty.

Skills and Characteristics

• Strong technical leadership with the ability to influence cross-functional stakeholders.

• Excellent interpersonal skills, including presenting technical direction to both engineers and executives.

• Proven experience leading architectural decisions and complex debugging efforts.

• Self-directed, committed to producing strong results, and passionate about high-quality automation.

Qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree or equivalent

• Strong programming proficiency in Python & C++.

• Experience building, running, and debugging software in Windows environments.

• Proven experience owning automation strategy or leading technical initiatives.

• Deep understanding of automation trade-offs and architectural design decisions.

Nice-to-Have

• Experience running and debugging scripts/tools on Linux or Android.

• Prior experience with PlayStation SDK development.

• Experience writing unit and integration tests at scale.

• Knowledge of fuzz testing methodologies.

• Japanese language familiarity.

About the team: 

PlayStation Product Development is looking for a versatile and motivated Ecosystem Engineer to drive the development of PlayStation's growing hardware product ecosystem. Our PD team is working on future hardware products and gaming experiences around and beyond the console. 

The successful applicant is: 

• A self-motivator with initiative and a track record of getting things done and working through ambiguity. 

• Quick to understand and own the integration of new features and technologies into ecosystem products. 

• Used to working with remote and international engineering teams. 

• A strong troubleshooter and hands-on fixer. 

• Not necessarily always right, but always committed to make things right. 

• Curious and eager to learn new skills. 

• An engineer in mind, but a gamer at heart! 

Responsibilities: 

• Write and maintain PlayStation ecosystem product specifications and validation plans. 

• Lead product validation activities at external test labs. 

• Travel occasionally to work with test labs and internal/external engineering teams. 

Qualifications: 

• Proven track record with validation and qualification of consumer hardware products with software components. 

• Strong technical writing, analytical and problem-solving skills 

• Deep understanding of hardware/software system integration testing 

• Experience with CI/CD tools such as Jenkins, Jira 

• Leadership experience with small to medium projects 

• Able to work both independently and as part of a team 

• Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Computer Engineering, Mechanical Engineering, Electrical Engineering, or equivalent. 

Working Conditions: 

• Agile team; feels like a start-up within a large organization 

• Hiring Location: San Mateo, remote considered 

• Travel (domestic and international) required. Estimated 10%-15% 

• Individual Contributor: Does not have direct supervisory responsibilities nor budgetary or hiring accountabilities 

Equal Opportunity Statement:

Sony is an Equal Opportunity Employer. All persons will receive consideration for employment without regard to gender (including gender identity, gender expression and gender reassignment), race (including color, nationality, ethnic or national origin), religion or belief, marital or civil partnership status, disability, age, sexual orientation, pregnancy, birthing parent or parental status, trade union membership or membership in any other legally protected category.

We strive to build an inclusive environment, empower employees and embrace diversity. We encourage everyone to respond.

PlayStation is a Fair Chance employer and qualified applicants with arrest and conviction records will be considered for employment.

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Sony Interactive Entertainment has an extraordinary opportunity in the Tools, Framework and Infrastructure team! We are looking for a motivated and creative individual to help build test tools, frameworks, and infrastructure, focused on delivering high quality system software which drives the PlayStation experience.

 As a Software Engineer, you'll focus on building test frameworks and infrastructure, internal tools, and automating test workflows. You will collaborate closely with Quality Engineering and Software Engineering teams to build robust systems to ensure console software delivered to customers and game studios are of the highest quality.

Responsibilities

• Design, build, and maintain test frameworks, tooling and infrastructure for teams which develop and test software for the Playstation console.

• Integrate automated tests into CI/CD pipelines using Jenkins, GitHub Actions or similar tools.

• Collaborate with Quality and Development teams to enable testing of both hardware and software components in isolation. 

• Construct telemetry systems and dashboard in order to make data-driven decisions about technical feature development.

• Build tooling for AI-driven testing initiatives

Required Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree in Computer science, Electrical Engineering, or equivalent

• 2+ years experience in designing, developing and maintaining tools and applications in Python, C++, or Javascript with a focus on building testing tools, and test frameworks at scale. (C++, JS experience preferred)

• Experience with test automation frameworks (e.g. Appium, Mocha.js, etc.) 

• Experience with mobile test automation on Android and/or iOS platforms.

• Hands-on experience with CI/CD systems like Jenkins, GitHub Actions or similar tools.

• Comfortable working in Linux and Windows-based development environments.

• Strong communication skills and the ability to work cross-functionally with engineering and QA teams.

• Hands-on experience applying AI/ML techniques in practical engineering contexts such as test case generation, flaky test detection, log analysis, or workflow automation.

• Strong debugging skills.

Nice-to-Have Skills

• Experience with test/build automation on PCs, consoles or other embedded systems

• Familiarity with Node, React Native/Web, Kubernetes, REST APIs

• Working knowledge Docker-based test environments.

• Game industry background

• Exposure to integrating or building tools powered by large language models

Tools and Technologies you will work with

• Jenkins (CI/CD), GitHub Actions, ArgoCD

• Python

• JavaScript, React, Next.js

• C, C++ or Rust

• Git, GitHub

• Device connectivity tools (e.g., ADB, Bluetooth analyzers)

• Containerization technology such as Docker, buildpack and Kubernetes.

Principal Engineer, Developer Experience (DevEx)

Location: Hybrid / Remote Eligible

Why PlayStation

At PlayStation, we build the platforms and services behind some of the world’s most iconic entertainment experiences.

As our engineering organization grows, Developer Experience (DevEx) has become a strategic focus. We are investing in a unified, intelligent, and opinionated engineering ecosystem that enables teams to move faster, build with confidence, and focus on creating value.

This role helps shape how engineering is done across PlayStation.

The Role

We are looking for a Principal Engineer to lead Developer Experience (DevEx) at scale.

In this role, you will treat developer experience as a product—driving platform adoption, reducing friction across the software development lifecycle, and delivering measurable improvements in productivity, quality, and reliability.

You will work across organizations, partnering with senior engineering leaders to influence standards, platforms, and long-term technical direction.

What You’ll Do

• Define and drive the DevEx strategy across PlayStation.

• Own developer experience as a product, with clear roadmaps and success metrics.

• Identify and eliminate friction across the software development lifecycle.

• Drive platform-first adoption of CI/CD, testing, and lifecycle automation.

• Define and promote golden paths for building, deploying, and operating services.

• Lead the evolution of lifecycle automation platforms.

• Reduce tooling fragmentation through consolidation and strong defaults.

• Influence engineering practices to improve delivery speed, quality, and reliability.

• Partner with senior leaders to align DevEx investments with business priorities.

• Represent DevEx strategy in senior technical and leadership forums.

What We’re Looking For

• Experience leading large-scale platform, infrastructure, or developer productivity initiatives.

• Ability to influence engineering practices across multiple teams or organizations.

• Strong understanding of CI/CD, testing, deployment, and service operations.

• Experience balancing standardization with developer autonomy.

• Proven ability to translate technical strategy into measurable outcomes.

• Clear and effective communication skills.

• Bachelor's degree or equivalent

Nice to Have

• Experience building internal platforms as products.

• Familiarity with developer portals (e.g., Backstage).

• Experience with application lifecycle management or automation at scale.

• Exposure to AI-assisted engineering or automation workflows.

• Passion for improving developer experience and engineering excellence.

Why You’ll Love This Role

• Shape how engineering is done at PlayStation.

• Impact thousands of developers and millions of players.

• Work on long-term, high-impact platform initiatives.

• Partner with strong technical leaders across the company.

• Turn developer pain points into durable, scalable solutions.