Staff BESS Electrical Design Engineer, EPC

Redwood Materials is seeking a Battery Energy Storage Systems (BESS) Electrical Engineer to join our EPC team. This role is central to the design of scalable, high-performance energy storage infrastructure for utility-scale and distributed applications. Our mission is to build a sustainable circular economy for lithium-ion batteries by transforming recycled materials into high-quality inputs for new batteries.

Responsibilities will include: 

• Lead electrical engineering efforts for utility scale lithium-ion BESS projects from concept (system sizing, layout) through construction. 
• Interface with utilities and ISO/RTOs to support interconnection studies/submittals, permitting, and compliance for new renewable and BESS projects. 
• Serve as the internal subject matter expert (SME) for technical challenges related to BESS.  
• Design AC and DC electrical systems for BESS using medium voltage transformers, inverters, DC combiners, energy managers, and battery modules. Specify and procure long-lead AC equipment. 
• Develop schematic diagrams, single-line diagrams, wiring schematics, raceway plans, grounding plans, and protection strategies for AC and DC systems. 
• Specify and evaluate components such as circuit breakers, contactors, fuses, disconnects, emergency power off (EPO), and metering devices. 
• Coordinate with civil, structural, fire & life safety, SCADA/telecom, geotechnical, and DC system design teams to produce complete IFC packages and technical specifications. 
• Ensure designs comply with applicable codes and standards such as NEC 705, NEC 706, IEEE 1547, UL 9540, NFPA 855, and local amendments. Lead code reviews and provide summary to internal teams. 
• Integration of BESS with grid infrastructure and other renewable and traditional energy sources.  
• Perform power system studies for short circuit, load flow, arc flash, and protective device coordination for AC and DC systems. 
• Serve as the Electrical Engineer of Record for assigned projects. 
• Maintain up-to-date knowledge of BESS technologies, codes, and industry trends.  
• Lead R&D efforts to perform feasibility analysis of using medium voltage DC distribution system for integrating BESS with other sources. 
• Provide CA support for RFIs, submittal reviews, change orders, and site inspections. 
• Coordinate with internal stakeholders and external consultants to track scope, schedule, and budget. 
• Prepare engineering cost estimates and project schedules in collaboration with project controls at various design milestones. 
• Perform QA/QC reviews of electrical designs and mentor junior engineers. 
• Contribute to internal design standards, templates, and best practices. 
• Manage project workload and ensure timely delivery of engineering documents. 
• Support strategic initiatives related to grid integration, renewable energy, and energy storage. 

Desired Qualifications: 

• Bachelor’s or Master’s degree in Electrical Engineering from ABET accredited program. 
• Licensed Professional Engineer in Nevada or eligible for reciprocity. Must get their PE in Nevada and South Carolina within 2 months of start date. 
• Minimum 5 years of experience in solar, energy storage, or microgrid sectors, with at least 3 years focused on BESS design and deployment. 
• Proven expertise in interconnection and regulatory compliance for BESS systems. 
• SME in knowledge of NEC 705, NEC 706, IEEE 1547, UL 9540, and NFPA 855.  
• Advanced proficiency in: 
• Microgrid and hybrid power systems modeling tools using HOMER or similar 
• Power system modeling using ETAP, SKM, or similar 
• AutoCAD/Revit, Navisworks, Bluebeam, Microsoft Office 
• Preferred proficiency in: 
• Transmission-level load flow and stability using PSSE and PSLF 
• Electromagnetic Transient Simulations using PSCAD, EMTC or similar 
• SEL Relay Settings using SEL AcSELerator or equivalent 
• Design of HVDC systems and converter station 
• Strong understanding of energy storage use-cases including peak shaving, load shifting, demand response, and frequency response. 
• Highly motivated, proactive, and detail oriented. 
• Ability to communicate effectively through verbal, written, and visual formats. 

Staff Electrical Design Engineer, EPC

The Staff Electrical Engineer is responsible for the end-to-end electrical design of industrial, offices, and lab facilities across multiple locations. The role holds full ownership of electrical deliverables — from concept through construction — across a diverse range of project types including hazardous occupancy, recycling facilities, office and labs, warehouse environments, and 34.5 kV/24.9 kV site infrastructure. The engineer is expected to operate with a high degree of independence, serving as Electrical Engineer of Record on assigned projects while coordinating across multiple disciplines to deliver code-compliant, construction-ready packages on schedule and within budget. This position requires a licensed Professional Engineer who is not only highly skilled at performing complex engineering calculations but also motivated, detail-oriented, and capable of communicating effectively at all levels — from field teams to executive stakeholders.

Responsibilities will include:

• Design and own a wide range of electrical systems — including medium voltage (up to 34.5 kV) feeds, low voltage power distribution, lighting, raceway, grounding, and communications. 
• Serve as Electrical Engineer of Record and responsible for producing permit and construction drawings. 
• Perform power system studies including short-circuit analysis, arc flash calculations, and protective device coordination using SKM or ETAP to ensure safe and code-compliant designs. 
• Perform cable ampacity calculations using AmpCalc or similar software to optimize cable size instead of using prescriptive tables from National Electrical Code (NEC). 
• Lead multi-discipline coordination with architectural, civil, structural, mechanical, fire & life safety, and other design teams to produce complete Issue for Construction (IFC) packages. 
• Review conceptual designs from manufacturing engineers and stakeholders to identify technical and financial risks. Prepare electrical specifications and conduct technical bid evaluations for designs produced by external design consultants. 
• Lead code analysis for NEC, IECC, and applicable NFPA standards across all project deliverables, and ensure designs meet all regulatory and compliance requirements. 
• Provide construction administration support including RFI responses, submittal reviews, change order management, and on-site inspections. Serve as the technical point of contact during construction and commissioning. 
• Prepare engineering cost estimates and project schedules, perform QA/QC reviews of electrical designs, and mentor junior engineers while contributing to internal design standards and best practices. 

Desired Qualifications: 

• Bachelor’s or Master’s degree in Electrical Engineering from ABET accredited program. 
• Licensed Professional Engineer in Nevada or eligible for reciprocity. Must get their PE in Nevada and South Carolina within 2 months of start date. 
• Minimum 10 years of experience in heavy commercial and industrial sectors, with evidence of exceptional ability. 
• Subject matter expertise in National Electrical Code (NEC), International Energy Conservation Code (IECC),  and relevant National Fire Protection Association (NFPA) standards with demonstrated ability to lead code analysis and apply requirements across complex, multi-discipline projects. 
• Advanced proficiency in Revit MEP, AutoCAD, Navisworks, Bluebeam, and SKM or ETAP for design production, clash detection, document review, and power system studies. 
• Advanced proficiency in AmpCalc or similar for cable ampacity calculations. Ability to perform photometric studies using lighting design software such as Visual or AGI and make decisions on optimal lighting levels for projects. 
• Strong analytical and problem-solving abilities, with the capacity to independently manage multiple concurrent projects, prioritize tasks effectively, and deliver high-quality engineering documents on schedule. 
• Ability to travel to project sites for construction administration, commissioning support, and field issue resolution, with flexibility to adjust availability based on project phase demands. 
• Excellent communication skills — verbal, written, and through drawings/sketches — with the ability to collaborate across disciplines and interface confidently at an executive level. 

SIE Studio IT is seeking a Lead Systems Engineer to lead the design, operation, and evolution of our production infrastructure and data center platforms. This role provides technical direction for the Systems Administration team and serves as the senior engineering authority for Linux systems, enterprise server hardware, virtualization, storage, and high-availability infrastructure.

Responsibilities

• Lead the design, deployment, and operational support of Linux and Windows platforms in a production environment.

• Architect and support enterprise server hardware, including platform selection, RAID configuration, firmware lifecycle management, hardware diagnostics, and performance troubleshooting.

• Lead the design, deployment, and operation of enterprise and distributed storage platforms, including technologies such as Ceph, NFS-based NAS, and SAN architectures.

• Design and maintain high‑availability and load‑balanced systems, including clustered servers.

• Define and own the monitoring, alerting, and observability strategy for infrastructure platforms including storage, virtualization, servers, and operating systems.

• Partner with vendors and internal teams on hardware selection and lifecycle planning.

• Establish technical standards, patterns, and documentation that can be executed by the Systems Administration team.

• Review designs, changes, and implementations performed by Systems Administrators to ensure quality, consistency, and reliability.

• Act as the technical lead during infrastructure incidents, driving restoration efforts and post-incident review actions.

• Ensure infrastructure designs align with security standards and requirements.

Requirements

• Strong Linux and Windows administration and engineering experience in enterprise or production environments.

• Strong hands-on experience with enterprise server hardware, including troubleshooting, lifecycle planning, and firmware management.

• Strong experience with enterprise storage and distributed storage systems; Ceph experience strongly preferred.

• Strong experience architecting and administering Windows and Linux server platforms in enterprise or production environments.

• Strong understanding of how storage, compute, and virtualization interact in performance‑sensitive production environments.

• Strong scripting and automation skills, preferably Python and/or PowerShell.

• Proficiency with Active Directory, DNS, and DHCP; Infoblox experience is a plus.

• Experience designing or overseeing monitoring, alerting, and observability solutions, including dashboarding platforms such as Grafana or equivalent tools.

• Ability to lead and mentor Systems Administrators.

• 5+ years of relevant enterprise IT experience in a senior or lead infrastructure role.

• Available to work varying hours, on-call shifts, including evenings, weekends, and holidays as required.

Staff High Voltage Electrical Engineer, EPC

Redwood Materials is seeking a Staff High Voltage Electrical Engineer to join our EPC team. This role is central to the design of high voltage electrical infrastructure to support our mission. Our mission is to build a sustainable circular economy for lithium-ion batteries by transforming recycled materials into high-quality inputs for new batteries. 

Responsibilities will include: 

• Lead the design of high voltage AC electrical systems, specifically for industrial substations (69kV to 345kV) and their integration with upstream transmission lines and downstream MV distribution
• Review and evaluate the design of existing substations to provide recommendations for improving reliability and stability
• Develop single-line diagrams, physical layout and design, protection and control systems, relay design and coordination, and grounding plans for substations
• Perform grid simulation and stability studies using industry standard tools such as PSSE, PSLF, PSCAD, ASPEN OneLiner and similar software
• Interface with utilities and ISO/RTOs to support interconnection studies, permitting, and compliance for new renewable and BESS projects 
• Perform short circuit, load flow, and arc flash studies
• Develop relay settings using SEL AcSELerator or equivalent software
• Evaluate and select high voltage equipment including switchgear, circuit breakers, transformers, reactors, PTs, CTs, and protection relays
• Serve as Electrical Engineer of Record for assigned projects
• Lead code compliance reviews (NEC, IEEE, NESC, NFPA) and provide technical guidance to internal teams
• Collaborate with civil and structural engineers on substation layout, foundations, and site development
• Support facilities, construction and commissioning teams with field engineering, testing, and troubleshooting
• Review vendor submittals, RFIs, and shop drawings for technical accuracy
• Participate in technical bid evaluations and identify scope gaps
• Lead R&D efforts to perform feasibility analysis of using medium voltage DC distribution system for integrating BESS with other sources
• Independently manage high voltage design packages from concept through commissioning
• Coordinate with internal stakeholders and external consultants to align scope, schedule, and budget
• Prepare engineering cost estimates and execution schedules in collaboration with project controls
• Lead technical reviews and design optimization workshops
• Mentor junior engineers and contribute to team development
• Develop workflows, templates, and standards for high voltage design and simulation
• Support strategic initiatives related to grid integration, renewable energy, and energy storage

Desired Qualifications: 

• Bachelor’s or Master’s degree in Electrical Engineering from ABET accredited program
• Licensed Professional Engineer in Nevada or eligible for reciprocity. Must get their PE in Nevada and South Carolina within 2 months of start date
• Minimum 10 years of experience in high voltage electrical design, preferably in EPC environments
• Advanced proficiency in: 
• Transmission-level load flow and stability using PSSE and PSLF 
• Electromagnetic Transient Simulations using PSCAD, EMTC or similar 
• SEL Relay Settings using SEL AcSELerator or equivalent 
• Relay coordination and fault studies using ASPEN OneLiner or similar 
• Power system modeling using ETAP, SKM, or similar 
• AutoCAD, Navisworks, Bluebeam, Microsoft Office 
• Preferred proficiency in: 
• Design of HVDC systems and converter station 
• Strong understanding of protection and control systems, SCADA, and substation automation
• Highly motivated, proactive, and detail oriented
• Ability to communicate effectively through verbal, written, and visual formats
• Field experience in construction and commissioning of high voltage systems is highly preferred
• A passion for sustainability and making the world a better place!

Job Summary 

This position will collaborate with team members to design residential, commercial, and industrial projects. Technical tasks include but not limited to conceptual site layout, utility design; roadway design; site grading design; storm drain design; storm water management design; water and sanitary sewer main design; soil erosion and sedimentation control design; floodplain studies; permitting and entitlement support; and construction support (2026 start).

Accountability and Duties

• Designs site plans utilizing AutoCAD Civil 3D. 
• Prepares conceptual grading analyses and site layout.
• Prepares and computes, but not limited to due diligence/site analysis reports, engineer opinion of probable costs, utility computations, detention/retention computations, storm water reports, earthwork analysis.
• Assists in production of final construction drawings.
• Prepares permit applications for applicable municipal agencies.
• Assists project managers as requested.
• Assists with client contact and communication pertaining to specific projects.
• Works closely with other disciplines on multi-discipline projects.
• Attends client and public meetings- days or evenings.
• Participates in business development efforts as requested.

Required Knowledge, Skills, and Abilities

• Outstanding Interpersonal skills, ability to interact with a variety of people.
• Adaptable and able to respond quickly and accurately under pressure.  
• Able to multitask in a fast-paced environment.
• Must be fluent in the English language.
• Available to work nights and weekends to complete projects as necessary.
• Proficient in MS office. AutoCAD Civil 3D experience is a plus.
• Must have a valid drivers license.

Minimum Qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree in engineering from an accredited four-year college or university. 0-2 years related experience.

Physical Demand

• The physical demands described here are representative of those that must be met by an employee to successfully perform the essential functions of this job. Reasonable accommodations may be made to enable individuals with disabilities to perform the essential functions.
• While performing the duties of this job, the employee is frequently required to sit and talk or hear. The employee is occasionally required to stand, walk, use hands to finger, handle or feel objects, tools, or controls; reach with hands and arms; and stoop; kneel, crouch, or crawl. The employee may frequently lift and /or move up to 10 pounds and occasionally lift and/or move up to 25 pounds. Specific vision abilities required by this job include close vision, distance vision, color vision, depth perception, and the ability to adjust focus.
• While performing the duties of this job, the employee occasionally works in outside weather conditions, possibly for extended assignments.

Employer’s Disclaimer

• This job description in no way states or implies that these are the only duties to be performed by the Associate occupying this position.
• The Firm reserves the right to add or revise an Associate’s job duties at any time at its sole discretion.
• This document does not create an employment contract, implied or otherwise, other than an “at will” employment relationship.

Job Description

Anduril is seeking Systems Safety Engineer to join the Omen team at our Costa Mesa HQ. Omen is Anduril’s hover-to-cruise autonomous air vehicle (AAV) that packs the endurance, payload, and mission flexibility of much larger airplanes into a novel runway-independent Group 3 platform. Omen can operate from ship decks, beaches, or remote island clearings, providing true runway independence and freedom of maneuver across defense and civilian domains. Omen is the first tail-sitter aircraft with a mass-production contract, with an order of 50 systems representing a decisive investment that anchors production and accelerates the development of future systems.

You will work on the System Safety and Airworthiness aspects of new aircraft development effort in a lean, high-ownership culture where you directly shape the product and operate at a velocity to fly new designs within months, not years.

WHAT YOU’LL DO

• Bring a pragmatic and right-sized approach to Systems Safety and Airworthiness to enable Omen Capability realization at the speed of relevance
• Develop and implement a tailored Systems Safety approach aligned with MIL-STD-882E and the end-user for the Omen Capability
• Engage with customers, end-users and local regulatory authorities to Identify appropriate Airworthiness frameworks and recognized standards to develop the overall Airworthiness strategy as a foundation for design efforts
• Develop Airworthiness plans and documentation in support of regional regulatory processes and submissions
• Develop Systems Safety requirements and collaborate with Vehicle, Mission, Support and Production design teams to implement Safety Safety best practices
• Identify the need for and conduct complex safety analyses, including FHA (Functional Hazard Analysis), System/Subsystem Hazard Analysis, System of Systems Hazard Analysis, Environmental Hazard Analysis, Operating and Support Hazard Analysis, Health Hazard Analysis, Fault Tree Analysis (FTA) and SCFTA (Safety Critical Functional Thread Analysis), Failure Modes, Effects, and Criticality Analysis (FMECA)
• Identify and document hazards and risks for the Omen project, manage hazard tracking databases, and ensure proper risk mitigation strategies are implemented
• Support System Design Reviews (SDR) and engineering governance structures such as Preliminary Design Reviews (PDR), Critical Design Reviews (CDR), Test Readiness Reviews (TRR), Safety Review Boards (SRB) representing System Safety and Airworthiness
• Lead and triage Systems Safety outcomes from Root Cause Corrective Action (RCCA) investigations and mishap reports
• Drive continuous improvement in Systems Safety processes and methodologies
• Develop and own the Omen System Safety Program Plan (SSPP)

REQUIRED QUALIFICATIONS AND ATTRIBUTES

• Bachelor degree in Aerospace, Mechanical, Electrical or Systems Engineering, or equivalent technical discipline
• 10+ years industry experience as a Systems Safety Engineer aligned with Airworthiness activities
• Experience with safety-critical hardware and software systems in the Defense or Aerospace industries, specifically crewed aircraft, rotorcraft, UAS or weapon systems
• Extensive knowledge of AC 23-1309-1E, MIL-STD-882E, MIL-STD 516C airworthiness, AC-17-01, and other relevant safety standards
• Experience establishing and maintaining relationships with civil and military Airworthiness authorities
• Proven experience working civil and military Airworthiness processes, including MIL-HDBK-516 series documents, throughout the life cycle of a developmental aircraft to achieve successful program completion
• Experience developing and managing Airworthiness plans, tracking of Airworthiness criterions, and similar activities
• Strong background in safety analysis techniques, including FTA, FHA, SCFTA, and FMECA
• Failure investigation/analysis experience with proven track record of solving problems and preventing reoccurrence
• Experience with crewed or uncrewed developmental autonomous aircraft (Group 3 UAS or larger)
• Understanding of high voltage and high power systems or hybrid powertrains advantageous
• Experience with guidelines, standards and processes such as ARP-4754, ARP-4761, DO-178C, DO-254, JSSSEH, MIL-STD-810, MIL-STD-461 is desirable
• Familiarity with technical software packages such as Relyence, Teamcenter, JIRA, JAMA, Cameo, and/or Ansys
• Excellent written, verbal, interpersonal and communication skills
• A sincere commitment to a positive, inclusive, and collaborative culture
• Eligible to obtain and maintain a security clearance in United States, United Kingdom, or Australia

We're looking for a Contract Technical Program Manager to support our Product, Data Science & Analytics (DSA), and Engineering organizations during a high-activity period.

This is a hands-on execution role. You'll partner with established leaders and cross-functional teams to keep programs moving, surface operational gaps, and help build lightweight systems that improve how we work.

What You Will Do

Define and Lead Organization-Wide Programs

Program Execution & Coordination

• Manage day-to-day execution of cross-functional programs across Product, DSA, and Engineering
• Track milestones, dependencies, and risks; flag issues early and drive them to resolution
• Support recurring operational forums (data reviews, product reviews) — prep materials, capture decisions, and follow up on action items

Data & Metrics Support

• Partner with Data Engineering and Analytics teams to support data quality tracking and dashboard maintenance
• Help document ownership and standards for key metrics and reporting workflows
• Assist in monitoring ETL pipeline health and escalating issues appropriately

Operational Improvements

• Identify friction points in existing workflows and propose practical, low-overhead fixes
• Help build or refine playbooks, intake processes, and coordination mechanisms
• Support rollout and adoption of new processes across teams

Stakeholder Communication

• Prepare clear status updates and program summaries for senior stakeholders
• Facilitate alignment meetings and ensure follow-through on decisions

What You Bring

• 4–7 years of experience in Technical Program Management, Product Operations, or a related role
• Solid understanding of data systems, analytics workflows, or instrumentation (you don't need to be an engineer, but you need to speak the language)
• Strong organizational skills and the ability to manage multiple workstreams simultaneously
• Clear, direct communicator — written and verbal
• Comfortable operating in ambiguity and ramping quickly in a fast-moving environment
• Experience at a mid-to-large tech company preferred

You Are

• A force multiplier who significantly increases the effectiveness of the entire organization.
• A builder and operator, equally skilled in defining strategy and driving execution.
• A clear, direct communicator who can influence effectively at all levels without direct authority.
• Energized by scale, ambiguity, and high-stakes, complex problems.

Are you passionate about games and frontend development? As a Senior Software Engineer, you'll help build and support our application used by millions of users worldwide for gaming consoles and desktop platforms. You will work on all parts of the application, focusing on frontend app architecture, Luau-driven systems, and crafting seamless 10ft user interfaces. If delivering the best experience to millions of users resonates with you, you'll be right at home within our growing Console & Desktop team. You will report to the Sr. Engineering Manager on the team.

You Will:

• Develop and support the Roblox client application for Gaming Consoles, PC, and Mac platforms.
• Architect and implement intuitive frontend experiences specifically optimized for 10ft interfaces and controller navigation.
• Leverage Luau to build high-performance, scalable UI frameworks and application logic.
• Work with Product and Design to ensure the product embodies the shared vision and maintains a premium "living room" feel.
• Use best programming and testing practices, writing unit and integration tests for complex frontend workflows.
• Build the best features used by millions of users, focusing on responsiveness, accessibility, and scriptable UI.
• Take ownership of projects throughout their full lifecycle.
• Work with our Xbox and PlayStation counterparts to ensure feature parity and platform-specific UI excellence.

You Have:

• 4+ years of experience in developing complex applications, with a heavy emphasis on frontend architecture and 10ft UI/UX design.
• Proficiency in modern C++ and deep expertise in Luau (or other modern frontend scripting language).
• Extensive experience building dynamic user interfaces that feel native to a television and console environment.
• Comfort using metrics and logging to analyze UI performance, feature engagement, and user patterns.
• The ability to shift focus and enjoy working outside your comfort zone.

A collaborative spirit; you work with and inspire others around you, taking on tasks for the greater team.

Power the Future of AI at Roblox!

Join the AI Platform team at Roblox, where we are building the infrastructure that enables world-class AI/ML experiences. Our mission is to empower developers and creators by providing scalable, high-performance systems that drive AI innovation at an unprecedented scale.

As an AI Platform Engineer specializing in ML Infrastructure, Training data Infrastructure and Feature Store Infrastructure, you will design and build next-generation ML data platforms, enabling AI applications across recommendations, search, safety, content generation, fraud detection, and more. Your work will directly impact millions of users, supporting AI-driven experiences across the entire Roblox ecosystem.

Why This Role?

• Massive Impact: Your contributions will support billions of daily interactions, powering AI-driven experiences across gaming, learning, social connections, and digital creativity.
• End-to-End Ownership: Be a key architect in defining and building Roblox’s Training Data pipelines and Feature Store infrastructure from the ground up.
• Cutting-Edge Growth: Work at the intersection of AI/ML, data engineering, and distributed systems, solving some of the most complex large-scale challenges in the industry.

You will:

• Develop a scalable Feature Store: Architect and implement a system that supports both batch and real-time feature computation, storage, and serving, enabling low-latency AI inference at scale. Develop Sequence Feature Stores to collect raw user events and power training of transform models for recommendation engines at Roblox. 
• Develop Roblox’s first training data platform: Architecture and engineer training data collection, reusability and reliability while solving world class engineering problems like point-in-time joins, feature injection. Power batch and realtime model training. 
• Engineer large-scale ML data pipelines: Design, optimize, and maintain high-throughput streaming and batch ETL pipelines that ingest, process, and serve billions of records per day.
• Build a feature engineering framework to empower 100s of machine learning engineers to develop, author, experiment and productionize millions of signals into the system quickly, easily and reliably. 
• Enable online and offline inference: Ensure real-time, low-latency feature access for AI inference while maintaining consistency and robustness for batch model training.
• Collaborate with cross-functional AI teams: Partner with ML researchers, data engineers, and product teams to build the next-gen AI infrastructure that fuels innovation at Roblox.
• Research & innovate: Stay at the forefront of AI infrastructure by exploring the latest in VectorDBs, Feature Stores, Graph ML, Agentic Systems and Real-time AI serving. 

You have:

• 5+ years of experience in AI/ML data infrastructure, feature stores, training data infrastructure. Experience working with industry leading NoSql databases like DynamoDB, Cassandra, cockroachDB and many more. 
• Expertise in building scalable ML data pipelines for both batch and real-time environments.
• Strong software engineering skills with experience in distributed computing frameworks (e.g., Spark, Flink, Ray) and real-time data systems (e.g., Kafka, Redis, DynamoDB).
• Deep knowledge of ML Feature Stores (e.g., Feast, Tecton, Vertex AI Feature Store) and embedding/vector search infrastructure.
• Familiarity with Knowledge Graphs and graph-based ML applications (e.g., Neo4j, TigerGraph, AWS Neptune).
• A Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Engineering, or a related field

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

Software Engineer II- Data Platform

Hybrid: San Diego

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

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

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

Responsibilities

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

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

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

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

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

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

• Contribute to platform documentation and maintain clarity for internal consumers

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

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

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

Requirements

• 3+ years of experience developing scalable, distributed systems

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

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

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

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

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

• Comfortable working in a globally distributed team

• Willingness to participate in production on-call rotations

Nice to Have

• Exposure to Databricks or similar unified data platforms

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

• Familiarity with data cataloging, lineage, and metadata tools

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

• Knowledge of GCP or multi-cloud environments

• Curiosity and enthusiasm for tackling scalability and reliability challenges

Your First 90 Days

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

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

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

Senior Software Engineer (Frontend), Social

Location: Los Angeles, CA

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

Role Responsibilities

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

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

Required Qualifications

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

Preferred Qualifications:

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

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!

Software Engineer II, Backend

San Diego, CA

Primary Responsibilities:

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

 Qualifications:

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

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%

Software Engineer II (Frontend), Social  

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

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

Responsibilities:

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

Required Qualifications:

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

Desired Qualifications:

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

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 Role

As a Software Engineer II at PlayStation, you will be a key contributor to a team focused on providing highly impactful UI experiences to our users! This role fits someone keen to learn, grow, and support our evolving technology stack. You will develop insight into our user base and collaborate with multiple teams to ensure we’re delivering the right outcome. The ideal candidate will be adaptable, flexible in approach, and ready to face ambitious challenges. 

About you

• Passionate about UI development and enjoy working with consumer facing products

• Collaborated across different team roles including product managers and designers to parse out key requirements and translate them to technical solutions

• Passionate about quality and strives to improve processes, proposes standard methodologies and drives their usage within the teams

• Debugging and tackling technical issues in not only your code but your fellow developer’s code as well

• Have a test driven development mentality with goals to prevent regression of code

• Work independently in a fast-paced ever-evolving environment

• Work with other team members by reviewing and giving feedback on pull requests and design plans

• Collaborate well with engineers internal and external to your teams to test ideas and optimize solutions

• Continually seeking to improve your knowledge and skills, and using your knowledge to help elevate your peers

Required Qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree or equivalent

• 2+ years of building product experiences with proficiencies in UI technologies (JavaScript, React, Typescript, node..etc)

• Experience constructing robust unit tests and familiarity with other types of software testing

• Proficiency in profiling performance and optimizing code in your domain, with knowledge to navigate conversations across the tech stack.

• Excellent communication skills, and the ability to help non technical  team members (product, design) navigate technical implementation challenges

Bonus Qualifications

• Experience with React Native and multi application environments

• Experience with Jest, React Testing Library

• Experience building integration or component testing.

• Understanding of build pipelines and CI/CD standards

• Experience with Agile/Scrum software development methodologies

This role is located in San Mateo, CA. When you're not building the best gaming experience possible, you'll have access to extraordinary food, wine country, hiking, and all that Silicon Valley has to offer.

We have a very flexible work-from-home policy as well: live close enough to the office for occasional in-person meetings and events, otherwise, work in the office as much or as little as you like!

Passionate about data-driven insights and being part of teams that build scalable telemetry solutions that impact millions? We're looking for a Full Stack Software Engineer to join our Unified Telemetry team. This role involves creating seamless and secure solutions and ensuring delivery of exceptional user experiences. As a full-stack developer, you will work across the stack, contributing to both the front-end and back-end architecture and implementation. This is an opportunity to participate in a fun, demanding, fast-paced environment for individuals who thrive on new challenges and creative solutions.

Responsibilities

• Collaborate with other Front-End Engineers, Data Platform engineers and develop dynamic, responsive and user-friendly applications.

• Work with Product Owners and Product Managers to understand feature requirements, gather technical requirements, and develop new features

• Create and maintain documentation of application design, configuration and maintenance.

• Provide accurate timelines for specific tasks assigned.

Required Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree or equivalent

• Proficiency in TypeScript and JavaScript; React/ReactNative experience is a strong plus.

• Understanding of server-side and cloud technologies, including Kubernetes and data management systems.

• Familiarity with telemetry, data pipelines, and other data tools used for large-scale systems.

• Desire to collaborate and to develop strong and positive team relationships

• Experience/Ability in writing maintainable tests to ensure code quality and reliability

• Excellent problem solving skills, attention to detail, organizational skills, a strong work ethic, and the ability to work independently.

Bonus Qualifications

• Demonstrate ability to write clean, maintainable, and well-documented code.

• Knowledge of C++

• Experience with Agile development methodologies such as SAFe, Scrum

Sony is an Equal Opportunity Employer. All persons will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, gender, pregnancy, national origin, ancestry, citizenship, age, legally protected physical or mental disability, covered veteran status, status in the U.S. uniformed services, sexual orientation, marital status, genetic information, or membership in any other legally protected category.

We also understand that you may not apply for a job unless you meet every listed qualification. If you think you might be a good fit, but aren’t sure if you “check every box”, please apply anyway. We know that dedicated and proficient team members come from diverse sets of backgrounds that may seem “non-standard” — and we embrace that! We also provide an excellent mentorship program to help level up those skills by pairing you up with someone who can help you reach your goals.

If you're ready for something new, a chance to be challenged, to learn, and grow, we want to hear from you. Come join us in bringing the joy of PlayStation to our community.

Service Reliability Engineer

Do you want to use transformative technologies to achieve greater scalability and efficiency? Do you want a career that combines your engineering skills and your passion for video gaming? Are you fascinated by the technologies behind the Internet and cloud computing? If so, join us!

As a part of Sony Computer Entertainment, the Gaming, Developer, and Future Technology group (GDFT) is leading the cloud gaming revolution, putting console-quality video games on any device, from TVs to consoles to mobile devices and beyond. Our SREs focus on three main things: overall ownership of production, production code quality, and deployments. The successful candidate will be self-directed and able to participate in the way we make decisions at different levels.

We expect our SREs to have opinions on the state of our service, and provide critical feedback during different phases of the operational lifecycle. We are engaged throughout the S/W development lifecycle, ensuring operational readiness and stability.

Requirements

• Minimum of 5+ years working experience in Software Development and/or Linux Systems Administration role.
• Strong written and verbal communication skills; able to work effectively with engineers and stakeholders.
• Willingness to participate in an on-call rotation and lead/assist in incident response
  
  

Skills & Knowledge

• 5+ years of experience in software development and/or Linux systems administration in production environments.
• BS in Computer Science or equivalent experience required. 
• Hands-on experience with Kong API Gateway or similar enterprise API gateway technologies.
  • Operate and troubleshoot the gateway in production: routing/services, plugins, TLS/cert management, authn/authz, and performance/latency tuning.
  • Own lifecycle and reliability practices: upgrades and configuration changes (IaC/GitOps), safe rollouts/rollback, monitoring, etc.
• Hands-on experience with Service Mesh technologies such as Istio, Linkerd or Kuma.
• Strong understanding of traffic management concepts, including routing, retries, timeouts, circuit breaking and traffic shifting (canary, blue/green)
• Familiarity with mTLS, service-to-service communication, and zero-trust networking principles
• Experience troubleshooting service mesh-related issues, including latency, connectivity, and policy misconfigurations
• Development experience in one or more of the following programming languages:
  • Python (preferred)
  • Bash, Go, Java, C++, or Rust

In addition, experience with:

• Distributed data storage at scale (Ceph, Rook)
• NoSQL at scale (MongoDB clusters, sharded Redis, Cassandra)
• Data Aggregation technologies. (ElasticSearch, Kafka)
• Scaling and running traditional RDBMS (PostgreSQL, MySQL) with High Availability
• Observability and incident management: Prometheus, Grafana, alerting/on-call workflows, post-incident review.
• Container orchestration (Kubernetes, Rancher) at scale
• Release Engineering (Package management and distribution at scale)
• S/W Performance analysis and load testing (QA or SDET experience: a plus)

Software Engineer II

Madison, WI

Playstation is looking for a Software Engineer to build our next-generation technologies and applications in the growing Madison, WI campus. We apply modern web technologies and methodologies to build an outstanding commerce platform and a customer experience filled with delight. The ideal candidate will come from an object-oriented development background, and be passionate about front end web technologies. Are you ready for a rare opportunity to deliver high-quality, thoroughly tested code at one of the world’s most recognizable brands? We’re doing really cool things with web technologies like React, React Native, and more to keep PlayStation the #1 gaming platform in the world.

Yes! There is a Sony Playstation office in Madison, WI! We are located in the heart of downtown right near the Capitol Square with an outstanding view of the east side and many great restaurants and social opportunities right outside the door.

This is a hybrid role. We offer a flexible work-from-home policy. In-person meetings may sometimes be required. Otherwise, you can work in the office as much or as little as you prefer. We also host many social and team bonding events in our Madison campus.

The team

This team focuses on building client application experiences for PlayStation consoles, websites, mobile applications and beyond. These features serve millions of users around the world. If you strive for outstanding UX, improving performance for a fast experience, and the blend of games and technology, please apply.

Responsibilities:

• Develop, test and document business critical features and applications
• Work with Product Owners and Product Managers to understand feature requirements, capture technical requirements and craft solutions for components and applications for the PlayStation ecosystem
• Passionate about quality and strives to improve processes, proposes standard methodologies and drives their usage within the teams
• Developing JavaScript-based applications for PlayStation gaming consoles, web, mobile and future flagship Sony devices and services
• Building digital commerce solutions for PlayStation games, media content, subscription services and more
• Write robust unit and component tests to ensure reliability and prevent regressions.
• Work quickly and optimally in a fast-paced ever-evolving environment
• Work independently and collaborate with internal and external engineers
• Work with other team members by reviewing and giving feedback on pull requests and design plans
• Define and refine technical approaches that support performance, accessibility, and scalability.
• Exercise your feature building capabilities and collaborate within your team to optimize existing solutions as well
• Deploying platform experiences through CI/CD pipelines
• Monitoring software releases, analyze telemetry, and adapt to production data
• Continuously learn, experiment, and bring forward innovative ideas — participate in Hackathons and Café Days to help shape the future of PlayStation experiences.

Required Qualifications:

• Bachelor's degree or equivalent, or 3+ years of relevant work experience instead of a degree
• 2-3 years of building product experiences with proficiencies in UI technologies
• A passion for robust sustainable and high-quality code
• Excellent communication and collaboration skills
• Strong technical, analytical, and problem-solving skills
• Capable of producing detailed design and development documentation

Preferred Qualifications:

• Using HTML, CSS, the JavaScript ecosystem and familiarity with popular frameworks like React, Angular, Jest, and TypeScript
• Familiarity with Java and Spring Boot is a bonus
• Familiarity with GraphQL, REST APIs, and containerization tools such as Docker.
• Understanding of build pipelines and CI/CD standards, especially across multiple platforms.
• Experience working with performance optimization, accessibility, and responsive design principles.
• Curiosity about AI-assisted development tools or automation that improves developer efficiency

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.

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.

Senior Hardware Engineer

Aliso Viejo, CA

Sony Interactive Entertainment’s Cloud Gaming Engineering and Infrastructure (CGEI) division is leading the Cloud Gaming revolution, putting console-quality video games on any device, from TVs to consoles to mobile devices and beyond.

Our Hardware & Systems Engineering team is looking for a Senior Hardware Engineer to join an innovative team of hardware engineers specialized in custom scale-out computing development. The ideal candidate complements this team and brings technical leadership to team members and partners.

Responsibilities

• Work with local and remote partners to create custom computing hardware by owning the design cycles for scale-out gaming hardware
• Work with external partners and suppliers to design and execute to hardware specifications
• Work with developers in partner software and firmware departments to create system-level solutions that integrate with existing and novel rack-, datacenter, and global-level system architectures.
• End-to-end PCBA design, including schematic- and VHDL-based design and layout oversight
• Hands-on laboratory work, including new hardware bringup and laboratory management

Qualifications

• BSEE required, MSEE or PhD preferred
• 5+ years of proven hardware design and technical leadership
• Experience with Jira and Confluence in both waterfall and Agile environments
• Excellent written and verbal communication skills
• Ability to articulate technical information in a clear and concise manner at all levels, from executive staff to engineers
• Strong cross-team collaboration and interpersonal skills with a variety of roles including engineering, product management, and support
• Strong understanding of digital electrical design
• Deep knowledge of high-speed protocols, including PCIe link and transport, DDR5/6, Ethernet, USB4
• Proven experience with broadly-used electrical design tools
• Experience building, debugging, and troubleshooting novel high-performance hardware systems

 Skills & Knowledge

• Experience with FPGA/CPLD design, including commensurate knowledge of standard and vendor-specific tooling
• Working experience in Perl, TCL, Python, Linux environments and/or C/C++
• Understanding of computer architecture, interconnects, FPGAs and storage technology
• Experience developing test code (firmware, software test code) for prototypes and early validation platforms and commensurate knowledge of integrated development environments (IDEs)
• Experience leading technical work in small workgroups

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

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

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

Key Responsibilities

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

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

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

• Lead security architecture and code reviews for distributed systems.

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

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

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

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

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

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

Qualifications

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Desired Experience

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

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

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

Passionate about data-driven insights and being part of teams that build scalable telemetry solutions that impact millions? We're looking for a Full Stack Software Engineer to join our Unified Telemetry team. This role involves creating seamless and secure solutions and ensuring delivery of exceptional user experiences. As a full-stack developer, you will work across the stack, contributing to both the front-end and back-end architecture and implementation. This is an opportunity to participate in a fun, demanding, fast-paced environment for individuals who thrive on new challenges and creative solutions.

Responsibilities

• Collaborate with other Front-End Engineers, Data Platform engineers and develop dynamic, responsive and user-friendly applications.

• Work with Product Owners and Product Managers to understand feature requirements, gather technical requirements, and develop new features

• Create and maintain documentation of application design, configuration and maintenance.

• Provide accurate timelines for specific tasks assigned.

Required Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree or equivalent

• Proficiency in TypeScript and JavaScript; React/ReactNative experience is a strong plus.

• Understanding of server-side and cloud technologies, including Kubernetes and data management systems.

• Familiarity with telemetry, data pipelines, and other data tools used for large-scale systems.

• Desire to collaborate and to develop strong and positive team relationships

• Experience/Ability in writing maintainable tests to ensure code quality and reliability

• Excellent problem solving skills, attention to detail, organizational skills, a strong work ethic, and the ability to work independently.

Bonus Qualifications

• Demonstrate ability to write clean, maintainable, and well-documented code.

• Knowledge of C++

• Experience with Agile development methodologies such as SAFe, Scrum

Sony is an Equal Opportunity Employer. All persons will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, gender, pregnancy, national origin, ancestry, citizenship, age, legally protected physical or mental disability, covered veteran status, status in the U.S. uniformed services, sexual orientation, marital status, genetic information, or membership in any other legally protected category.

We also understand that you may not apply for a job unless you meet every listed qualification. If you think you might be a good fit, but aren’t sure if you “check every box”, please apply anyway. We know that dedicated and proficient team members come from diverse sets of backgrounds that may seem “non-standard” — and we embrace that! We also provide an excellent mentorship program to help level up those skills by pairing you up with someone who can help you reach your goals.

If you're ready for something new, a chance to be challenged, to learn, and grow, we want to hear from you. Come join us in bringing the joy of PlayStation to our community.

PlayStation builds worldwide online services that need low-latency, secure, and reliable client–server communication for millions of users and services. We want an engineer committed to platform development, skilled in networking, application routing, and platform abstractions who enjoys converting architectural plans into stable, repeatable systems.

This role centers on crafting and deploying collaborative application routing and networking platforms. These platforms use Kubernetes along with modern gateway and service mesh technologies. They support the exchange of information both from client to service and between services across PlayStation’s hybrid infrastructure.

Responsibilities

In your role as a Platform Engineer at PlayStation, you will:

• Compose, develop, and maintain common application routing frameworks that facilitate communication spanning client requests to service responses as well as between services.
• Develop and improve routing capabilities through the Kong ecosystem, including Kong API Gateway, Kong Ingress Controller, and Kong Konnect.
• Enable safe traffic management approaches that support scalability, resilience, and controlled change.

Platforms for managing application routing

• Compose, build, and operate shared systems for managing application routing that enable client-to-service and service-to-service communication.
• Build and improve routing features with the Kong suite of tools (Kong API Gateway, Kong Ingress Controller, Kong Konnect).
• Facilitate secure traffic management methods that promote scalability, resilience, and regulated change.

Kubernetes & Service Connectivity

• Deploy and manage container-based routing and networking components on Kubernetes.
• Support east–west service connectivity within and across clusters, including service mesh-based solutions.
• Partner with Kubernetes platform teams to ensure routing infrastructure is reliable, scalable, and operable.

Platform Reliability & Enablement

• Increase the reliability, performance, and observability of application routing platforms.
• Integrate routing platforms into CI/CD and GitOps workflows.
• Provide clear conventions, automation, and documentation to enable application teams to adopt the platform effectively.

Requirements

• Strong background in networking and distributed systems, particularly client/server communication models.
• Hands-on experience operating application gateways, proxies, or traffic management platforms.
• Experience managing Kubernetes-based systems in production environments.
• Bachelor’s or Master’s degree in Computer Science or a related field, or equivalent practical experience.

Networking & Protocols

Solid understanding of:

• HTTP, HTTP/2, HTTP/3, gRPC
• TCP and UDP traffic patterns

TCP and UDP traffic patterns

• Experience with L4/L7 routing concepts, load balancing, and traffic policy.

Platform & Systems

• Proven experience integrating Kong to provide enterprise middleware application routing implementations.
• Experience working with platforms that rely on configuration, control planes, or policy systems.
• Familiarity with DNS-based service discovery and naming strategies.
• Comfort working alongside infrastructure primitives such as networks, load balancers, and firewalls.

Skills & Knowledge

• Experience supporting globally distributed systems across regions, providers, and environments.
• Knowledge of gateway architectures, service mesh concepts, and internal service connectivity.
• Familiarity with modern platform practices: GitOps or equivalent experience, Infrastructure as Code, Automated policy enforcement.
• Knowledge of fundamental networking technologies such as BGP, eBPF, or overlay networking is an advantage.

Additional Attributes

• Strong communicator who can collaborate effectively across architecture, platform, and application teams.
• Comfortable working with distributed teams across multiple time zones.
• Product-minded, with a focus on developer experience, platform reliability, and adoption.
• Self-starter with a strong sense of ownership and a bias toward documentation and knowledge sharing.
• Experience contributing to or collaborating on open-source software is a plus.

Software Engineer II (Frontend), Social  

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

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

Responsibilities:

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

Required Qualifications:

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

Desired Qualifications:

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

You will be a key member of our backend team and determine the core infrastructure of our next generation platforms and services to enhance our PlayStation ecosystem. 

Responsibilities: 

• Contribute to the development of backend systems that power the PlayStation platform as part of a collaborative Scrum team.
• Work closely with other developers and teams to support the design and implementation of platform services.
• Build and maintain scalable services using Node.js and TypeScript/JavaScript.
• Write clean, maintainable, and well-tested code, including unit tests for features and bug fixes.
• Assist in troubleshooting, debugging, and resolving technical issues.
• Participate in code reviews and contribute to improving overall code quality.
• Create and maintain technical documentation for your work.
• Continuously learn and grow by engaging with senior engineers and adopting best practices in software development.

Required Qualifications: 

• Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science or related field, or equivalent.
• 3+ years of experience in backend or full-stack development.
• Direct experience with Node.js, JavaScript, and/or TypeScript.
• Knowledge of RESTful APIs and general web service principles.
• Familiarity Exposure to cloud technologies such as AWS, Azure, or GCP.
• Strong problem-solving and communication skills, with an eagerness to learn and take feedback.
• Comfortable working in a collaborative, agile team environment.
• Experience working with GraphQL or RESTful APIs.
• Knowledge of version control systems such as Git and familiarity with pull request workflows.
• Interest in CI/CD pipelines and understanding the basics of automated builds or testing.
• Awareness of monitoring tools or performance metrics for backend services.
• Familiarity with frontend frameworks or Server-Side Rendering (SSR) tools such as Next.js is a plus.
• Coursework or exposure to software testing, data structures, or distributed systems concepts.
• Familiarity with other Server Side Languages

Software Development Engineer in Test II (SDET II)

Summary

Would you like to help ensure the quality of PlayStation® peripherals and firmware? Join the team delivering innovative test solutions for PlayStation® Link™ devices, where your work will directly impact performance, stability, and the player experience.

Sony Interactive Entertainment has a great opportunity in the Quality Engineering department! We are seeking a self-motivated engineer who focuses on quality, consistency, and thoughtful testing practices to develop and maintain automated tests that support the performance and reliability of our products.

As a Software Development Engineer in Test II, you’ll work hands-on with our peripherals, independently own and drive automated test coverage for specific features, and collaborate with senior engineers and development teams to ensure system quality across multiple platforms.

We value collaboration, thoughtful testing, and continuous learning as a team.

Responsibilities

In this role, you’ll contribute to both the strategic and practical aspects of test automation across platforms.

• Develop and maintain automated tests in C for embedded firmware and Python for platform integration

• Own automation suites for assigned features, ensuring test reliability and comprehensive coverage

• Support and enhance automation frameworks used across hardware and platform-level testing

• Perform firmware integration testing on PlayStation® 5, PlayStation® Portal, and Windows

• Monitor test infrastructure, troubleshoot automation failures, and improve performance and stability

• Analyze test execution data to identify flaky or slow tests and contribute to runtime optimization

• Evaluate and integrate new tools and methodologies to improve testing efficiency and scalability

• Collaborate with QA, Development, and Product teams to align on test coverage and integration

Qualifications

We’re looking for someone who enjoys solving tough problems and collaborating with others to build high-quality systems.

• Strong Python scripting skills and hands-on experience with automation tools like pytest and Appium

• Experience programming in C or C++ (modern C++ preferred, e.g., C++17)

• Solid experience using Git for version control and working with CI/CD pipelines in Jenkins, including configuring jobs and troubleshooting failures

• Experience using test case management tools like qTest or TestRail

• Understanding of embedded firmware testing and hardware/software integration

• Ability to design and troubleshoot automated tests with minimal supervision

• Effective communication and collaboration skills in a cross-functional team

• Bachelor's degree or equivalent

Nice to Have

If you bring any of these, we’d love to hear about them!

• Experience with GitHub Actions

• Experience testing or interacting with Windows-based drivers

• Familiarity with PlayStation® SDK development

• Familiarity with basic electrical concepts such as current draw, voltage levels, battery diagnostics, and microcontroller-based measurements

• Curiosity about PlayStation® products and games

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.

#LI-AT1

Are you looking for a challenge?

We are seeking a Software Engineer to join the team to develop, maintain, and improve the framework powering a rich set of user experiences on multiple platforms.

What you will be doing?

• Implement and improve framework features and SDKs across multiple platforms while collaborating with application teams to help them meet their feature and performance requirements

• Build clean, well-documented, and reusable APIs to simplify integration with platform services

• Ensure SDKs are performant, scalable, and backward-compatible across versions

• Collaborate with framework, and application teams to define SDK requirements and developer experience

• Create and maintain developer documentation, sample apps, and integration guides

• Debug and resolve integration issues reported by partner teams or SDK consumers

• Continuously improve SDK usability, reliability, and adoption

• Collaborate with team lead and peers to seek/give feedback on pull requests, gather technical requirements and technical design documents

What we are looking for?

• B.S. degree in Computer Science or equivalent fields

• 3-5 years of professional software development experience

• Experience writing high-performance code in C++

• Experience with Jenkins or any CI/CD tools

• Experience writing JavaScript and/or TypeScript with popular frameworks like React, Angular, Ember and similar.

• Solid understanding of API design principles, versioning, and backward compatibility

Bonus qualifications

• Familiar with React Native

• Experience building and shipping SDKs, libraries, or developer-facing platforms

• Familiar with Development on multiple platforms (Linux, Android, Windows)

• Experience with package management and distribution tools (e.g., Maven, Gradle, CocoaPods, npm, Conan)

• Experience working on cross-platform SDKs (Android, iOS, Web, or desktop)

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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 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
• 3+ 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

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

Key Responsibilities

Service Mesh & API Security

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

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

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

• Secure API exposure and traffic governance

Certificates & mTLS Management

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

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

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

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

Security Hardening & Zero Trust

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

• Enforcing default mTLS across workloads

• Carrying out infrastructure-level authentication and authorization

• Crafting and maintaining fine-grained access control policies

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

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

Kubernetes Security & Access Control

• Strong experience securing Kubernetes environments, including:

• Implementing namespace isolation and protection strategies

• Crafting and enforcing access controls and policies

• Managing service accounts and workload identities securely

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

Qualifications

Technical Skills & Platform Experience

• Bachelor's degree or equivalent experience required

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

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

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

• Strong experience with Kubernetes and containerized environments

• Build, and implement security controls and frameworks

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

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

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

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

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

• Reviewing tools for improving platform availability using automated protection mechanisms

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

• Research and recommend new technologies and collaborates on solutions

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

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

Senior Software Engineer (Frontend), Social

Location: San Diego, CA (Rancho Bernardo)

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

Role Responsibilities

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

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

Required Qualifications

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

Preferred Qualifications:

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

Senior Software Engineer - Performance & Tooling

Aliso Viejo, CA

The vision

As a Senior Performance & Tooling Engineer, you will design and build advanced performance testing and monitoring tools. Your work will enable development teams to measure, optimize, and scale system performance across Linux, CPU, DPU, and PCIe environments. This role offers the opportunity to work on deeply technical, low-level engineering challenges that have a direct impact on product performance and reliability.

What you’ll do

• Design, build, and own a performance tooling suite across CPU/DPU/PCIe.

• Develop load generators to saturate PCIe, NICs, and storage paths; model real-world and worst-case network/storage traffic.

• Instrument the stack with Linux perf, ftrace, and eBPF to capture timings, contention, cache/memory effects, and I/O paths.

• Create repeatable experiments to characterize throughput, latency, jitter, tail behaviors, and scalability limits.

• Build automated performance testbeds and CI pipelines that run on every change (smoke, regression, soak, and chaos scenarios).

• Establish golden signals, SLOs, and dashboards; visualize trends and regressions for fast triage.

• Perform deep root-cause analysis across userspace, kernel, drivers, and firmware; propose and land fixes.

• Collaborate with kernel, networking, storage, and hardware teams to optimize across the x86-64 microarchitecture and PCIe topologies.

You’re a great fit if you have

• BS in Computer Science / Software Engineering, or 5+ years building low-level performance and load-testing tools required.

• Proficiency in one or more systems languages (C/C++/Rust) and scripting for automation (Python/Bash).

• Mastery of Linux performance monitoring & tracing (perf, ftrace, eBPF/bcc/libbpf) in production environments.

• Deep understanding of the x86-64 microarchitecture.

• Strong knowledge of PCIe (link training, lanes, bandwidth math, peer-to-peer, DMA) and device/driver interactions.

• Comfort navigating kernel/userspace boundaries, syscalls, io_uring, and zero-copy I/O.

• Experience building reproducible experiments, analyzing large trace datasets, and communicating insights clearly.

• Excitement for open-ended problems, turning fuzzy ideas into solutions.

• Curiosity foron emerging tech, including AI dev tools and introducing those that are pragmatic and boost developer velocity.

 Bonus XP

• DPU/NIC experience (e.g., queues, RSS, offloads, AF_XDP, SmartNICs/BlueField).

• High-performance I/O: DPDK, SPDK, NVMe/NVMe-oF, RDMA/RoCE, iSCSI, storage stack tuning.

• Observability stacks (e.g., perf ETM, BPF ring buffers, Prometheus/Grafana, OpenTelemetry) and flamegraph tooling.

• You take ownership of problems and feel empowered to fix them.

• You spot gaps, draft solutions, and rally teammates without waiting for detailed specs.

• You stay calm when priorities change (they will), communicate trade-offs, and keep momentum.

• Thrive in fast iterative cycles with quick reviews that drive continuous improvement and progress.

• Knowledge of Japanese language and culture is a plus.

• You enjoy playing video games!

Senior Platform Engineer (Storage)   

Sony Interactive Entertainment 

At PlayStation, we're leading the revolution in cloud gaming as we push the boundaries of what's possible! Would you like to use your skills, time, and passion for meaningful projects that are building the future? We're looking for a Platform Engineer with proven experience in modern software delivery who loves crafting efficient, flexible and low friction systems to manage workloads at a global scale. If that sounds like something you would love to do, we want to hear from you! Come help us deliver a unique gaming experience to millions of players!

Responsibilities

• Managing, deploying and maintaining large scale distributed Ceph storage solutions

• Ensure high availability and performant storage by providing troubleshooting and debugging support, conducting performance tuning and continuously improving data integrity and reliability

• Evolve processes and best practices to maximize performance and cost efficiency  

• Staying up to date with Ceph/Storage current developments and experimental features. Share findings and consult architecture changes with the team

• Analyze storage trends and participate in capacity planning

Requirements

• Experience managing and administrating Ceph Storage, object and block

• 5+ years of experience with Linux systems tooling and troubleshooting in networking, configuration and deployment

• First hand experience with industry standard storage protocols

• Strong Kubernetes skills

• Proven ability to mentor Junior Members of the team

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

Skills & Knowledge

• Ceph & Rook expertise managing storage clusters with a deep understanding of the architectural and operational workings

• Experience in designing and implementing large-scale globally distributed storage systems

• Scripting and Automation experience in Bash, Python or Go

• Ability to support engineers with solving problems in integrating their systems with core Kubernetes components is preferred

• Experience with Infrastructure as Code and deployment tooling (Terraform, Ansible)

Additional Attributes

• Strong communication and customer service skills

• Experience with Kubernetes development including operators and controllers is a plus

• Experience with collaboration in a distributed team across multiple timezones

• High energy, driven to positively impact the business with customer-first thinking

• Must be self starter who understands that ownership means distributing the knowledge of your work so that everyone benefits

• Being a Contributor to Open Source Software is a plus

Senior Software Engineer – PlayStation
Location: Aliso Viejo, CA
Type: Full-time: Hybrid; onsite 2–3 days/week

Shape how millions experience PlayStation.
We’re looking for a Senior Software Engineer to help build the high-performance services that power real-time experiences across console, web, and cloud. You’ll solve tough systems problems, ship code at scale, and collaborate with teammates around the world. If you enjoy working with a highly collaborative team on these challenges, we’d love to hear from you.

What You’ll Do

• Design, build, and maintain high-performance C/C++ services that power PlayStation experiences.

• Develop features used across consoles, servers, and web services; own your code from design through deployment in Linux environments.

• Profile, troubleshoot, and optimize complex, distributed systems.

• Write clean, maintainable code using solid object-oriented design principles.

•   Participate in design reviews, code reviews, and technical discussions with a global team.

What we’re looking for (required)

• BS in Computer Science or related field, or equivalent practical experience.

• 6+ years of experience writing modern C/C++ for production systems.

• Proficiency in Linux for development, testing, and deployment.

• Experience with build and version control tools (e.g., CMake, Git).

• Demonstrated debugging skills in large codebases and performance-critical paths.

Bonus skills (nice to have)

• Experience with PlayStation projects or other console/embedded systems.

• Hands-on work with real-time media, graphics, or video pipelines.

• Familiarity with shader programming and/or video transcoding.

• Experience with AMD transcoding hardware or GPU-accelerated compute.

• Knowledge of design patterns and distributed systems best practices.

• AI/ML usage for auto testing and stress testing

Why Join Us?

• Work on globally impactful systems that push the boundaries of real-time media and gaming tech.

• Collaborate with world-class engineers and access the latest tools and hardware in the PlayStation ecosystem.

• Opportunities to learn, grow, and influence systems at scale

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 create 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.