Technical Program Management Co-op - Monetization

Waterloo, ON

Sony Interactive Entertainment (SIE) is a global leader in interactive and digital entertainment, responsible for the PlayStation® brand and its family of products and services. Since the launch of the original PlayStation® in 1994, PlayStation has continued to deliver innovation across consoles, VR, digital services, and software titles from SIE Worldwide Studios. Headquartered in San Mateo, California, SIE is a wholly owned subsidiary of Sony Corporation with regional headquarters in California, London, and Tokyo.

We are looking for students who are passionate about technology and gaming. As a Technical Program Management Co-op, you will work on projects that shape the PlayStation experience for millions of players worldwide.

About the Team

The Monetization team at PlayStation helps players discover the content they want and deepens their connection through products like PlayStation Plus. This team is reinventing its operating rhythms to deliver reliable, world-class experiences at scale.

What You’ll Do

• Partner with engineering teams to deliver features for monetization such as Subscriptions, Personalization, and Experience Management

• Facilitate Agile ceremonies including stand-ups, retrospectives, sprint planning, and backlog refinement

• Collaborate with product managers, engineers, and design leads to turn strategy into actionable roadmaps and plans

• Track deliverables and keep Jira boards, roadmaps, and status trackers updated

• Monitor progress, identify dependencies, flag risks, and support mitigation planning

• Communicate status updates to stakeholders in clear and concise ways

• Support release readiness and change management with Engineering Managers and Team Leads

• Contribute to process improvements by standardizing templates and practices

• Help establish lightweight metrics and dashboards to measure delivery health, quality, and impact

What We’re Looking For

• Experience working with product, design, and engineering in a technical environment

• Knowledge of Jira and Confluence for planning and documentation

• Familiarity with collaboration tools such as Google Suite, Slack, Microsoft Teams, and Figma

• Strong understanding of microservices and cloud-native concepts, with exposure to APIs, CI/CD, testing, and release processes

• Experience with project coordination, backlog management, and writing user stories with acceptance criteria

• Ability to analyze data and present insights through spreadsheets or dashboards (SQL is a plus)

• Understanding of risk management, dependency tracking, and stakeholder communication

• Excellent communication skills and a collaborative mindset

Perks

• Above-average pay, based on your current work term and verified by the latest Waterloo co-op earnings report

• PlayStation game vouchers for select PS5 games released during your co-op term

• Monthly PlayStation Store credit

• Access to employee store discounts on Sony and PlayStation products

• Paid lunch during team and company events

• Hackathon opportunities

• Career and personal development resources

Work Environment

• Fun, casual, and collaborative office setting

• Team of 70+ full-time employees with 5+ co-ops each term

• Opportunities to grow personally and professionally in a supportive environment

Software Developer Co-op – Back End  

Why PlayStation? 

PlayStation isn’t just the Best Place to Play — it’s also the Best Place to Work. Today, we’re recognized as a global leader in entertainment producing The PlayStation family of products and services including PlayStation®5, PlayStation®4, PlayStation®VR, PlayStation®Plus, acclaimed PlayStation software titles from PlayStation Studios, and more. 

PlayStation also strives to create an inclusive environment that empowers employees and embraces diversity. We welcome and encourage everyone who has a passion and curiosity for innovation, technology, and play to explore our open positions and join our growing global team. 

The PlayStation brand falls under Sony Interactive Entertainment, a wholly-owned subsidiary of Sony Group Corporation. 

Job Summary 

We’re part of PlayStation’s CAPE organization, building the systems and experiences that help players discover, purchase, and engage with content across the PlayStation ecosystem. Our work supports millions of players worldwide, focusing on making every interaction simple, seamless, and enjoyable. We’re hiring across two areas: Transact, which powers purchase and payments, and Nurture (Merchandising & Experiences), which focuses on personalized content discovery and dynamic user experiences. You’ll work on high-scale systems, collaborate across Sony, and help shape how players connect with games every day. 

You’ll be a good fit if:  

• You possess a drive and passion for quality with the ability to inspire,excite and motivate other team members. 

• You have outstanding verbal and written communication skills, and are able to work with others at all levels. 

• You possess a strong willingness to learn and thrive on acquiring new knowledge and skills. 

• Your curiosity drives you to go beyond your immediate assignments and look for ways to make things better. You’re not afraid to ask questions.  

Required Skills 

• Experience in developing software using Enterprise Java/J2EE, Web Services, REST APIs and JSON/XML.  

• Knowledge of microservices architecture and object oriented programming analysis,  design. 

• Experience developing with AWS native services such as EC2, S3, Kinesis, Glue, Lambda, SQS, SNS and DynamoDB. 

• Experience working on scalable systems with very high levels of concurrency and transactions. 

• Experience with SpringBoot, testing frameworks ( e.g.,  Spoch, JUnit , Cucumber), servlet containers (e.g., Tomcat), container technologies ( e.g., docker) , container orchestration (e.g., Kubernetes) and related  technologies. 

• Experience with SQL and NoSQL databases. 

• Experience developing applications on Unix/Linux platforms. 

• Understanding of SDLC, including coding standards, code reviews, source control management, build processes, testing, and operations. 

• Experience in developing cross-platform code. 

• Experience using source control and bug tracking systems in a team environment. 

• Experience with an e-commerce company 

• Excellent communication skills, and hopefully a good sense of humor! 

Benefits 

• Above average pay based on your current work term, verified by the latest co-op earnings report on the UWaterloo website. Feel free to ask about compensation in the interview! 

• PlayStation game vouchers for select PS5 games that are released during the co-op term 

• PlayStation store credit every month 

• Access to our employee store with discounts on select Sony/PlayStation products 

• Paid lunch for team/company special events 

• Hackathons 

• Career/personal development resources 

A few other things you should know: 

• Our office is a fun, relaxed and casual environment. We’re a tight-knit community of about 50+ full-time employees, and we enjoy welcoming new co-ops each term (we typically have 5 or more) 

• We're currently offering a hybrid work environment, with some folks working remotely and others working from the office. You can choose what suits you best! If you do choose to work remotely, you'll find that we connect heavily over Slack and video conferencing. During lunch breaks and team hangouts you'll find folks playing network-based games and connecting about things outside of work. 

• Please note that Day 1 of your co-op term will be held onsite at our office in Waterloo, ON. 

Software Developer Co-op Overview 

Are you interested in designing and implementing a scalable, flexible architecture on PlayStation®? Our Software Engineering Co-ops work alongside our full time software engineers to produce real products and services that matter to our customers. Focusing on PS5 console software, you’ll contribute to developing features that enhance the PlayStation® experience for millions of users. Collaborating with a team of skilled engineers, you’ll help build modern API-driven applications for the PlayStation®5 platform. As part of a globally distributed team, you’ll gain valuable experience in a dynamic, multicultural environment while implementing innovative console software solutions.  
 
We’re part of PlayStation’s CAPE organization, building the systems and experiences that help players discover, purchase, and engage with content across the PlayStation ecosystem. Our work supports millions of players worldwide, focusing on making every interaction simple, seamless, and enjoyable. We’re hiring across two areas: Transact, which powers purchase and payments, and Nurture (Merchandising & Experiences), which focuses on personalized content discovery and dynamic user experiences. You’ll work on high-scale systems, collaborate across Sony, and help shape how players connect with games every day. 

Responsibilities:  

• Produce well written features that will be used by millions of passionate customers 

• Help maintain existing applications 

• Write clear, maintainable, portable, and highly functional code 

• Test and document code produced 

Minimum Qualifications: 

• A good understanding of object-oriented principles. 

• Familiarity with common data structures and algorithms 

• Fluent in Python 

• Experience with some web technologies and frameworks 

• Experience developing single-page web applications using frameworks like Ember.js, React Native, AngularJS, Backbone.js 

• Experience with Customer-facing UI Development 

Preferred Requirements: 

• Proficient with JavaScript 

• Knowledge of HTML5 and CSS3 features and modern browser architecture 

• Experience with agile development practices 

• Experience with Node.js and Redis, or similar technologies 

• Experience with C#, Java, or OO C++ code is recommended 

• Proven track record of shipping applications (not just static websites) built on modern web technologies 

• Excellent communication skills, and hopefully a good sense of humor!