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Data Engineer
3 years ago
PlayStation isn’t just the Best Place to Play —it’s also the Best Place to Work. We’ve thrilled gamers since 1994, when we launched the original PlayStation. Today, we’re recognized as a global leader in interactive and digital entertainment. The PlayStation brand falls under Sony Interactive Entertainment, a wholly-owned subsidiary of Sony Corporation.
PlayStation isn’t just the Best Place to Play —it’s also the Best Place to Work. We’ve thrilled gamers since 1994, when we launched the original PlayStation. Today, we’re recognized as a global leader in interactive and digital entertainment. The PlayStation brand falls under Sony Interactive Entertainment, a wholly-owned subsidiary of Sony Corporation.
Passionate about working on strategic initiatives that allow for creativity and room for growth? At PlayStation, we use a variety of the most groundbreaking tools and deal with enormous amounts of data. Are you a strong believer in using data and technologies to drive the best business decisions? If so, read on…
Sony Interactive Entertainment’s (SIE) Global Payment and Fraud Teams are the guardians of both customer trust and purchase success for PlayStation and the PlayStation® Network (PSN). We provide innovative solutions to support every element of the network, various platform services, customer service teams, a diverse developer community, and more.
As a Data Engineer of the GPFM DS (Data Solutions) team, you be using a wide array of skills and tools to support the teams in the department and outside of the department. The mission of fighting fraud daily can involve anything from short term (a few weeks) to long term projects (6+ months). Our responsibility is to provide data, dashboards, reports and systems for the teams to do their daily jobs. We have lots of challenges, things change, and we get to be creative as we solve problems and build solutions.
Responsibilities:
- Engineer data pipelines and provide automated solutions for GPFM teams
- System monitoring and alerting, dashboards, charts/reports and alerts delivery
- Document processes, architecture of systems/data flows, project plans, using the agile methodology
- Create training materials/presentations and present slides to variety of audiences, from highly technical peers to executive management
- Mentor team members, sharing the workloads, enabling the team to grow
- Participate in hiring, interviewing, developing tests, reviewing (pre-screening) candidates
- Demonstrate an outstanding work ethic
- Finds issues and appropriately and expertly raises tickets within/without the team
- Solve sophisticated problems through highly creative methods
- Use cloud technologies to provide robust solutions and learn new tools/systems as they emerge
- Passion for protecting Sony and its customers
Requirements:
- BS Degree in Engineering, Computer Science or equivalent experience.
- 5+ years of experience in database development, programming, design, and analysis.
- Solid experience with data
- Files formats - csv, xml, json, avro
- SQL skills - writing, reading, tuning, debugging
- Data table design skills – DDL & DML
- Understanding SQL execution
- Demonstrable understanding of coding and scripting languages - Java, Python, JavaScript, bash, batch files
- General knowledge in Linux, Unix Administration and Windows Administration
- File ownership and permissions
- Users, access/authentication, and encryption/ssh
- Experience with automation, configuration management, enterprise schedulers
Preferred Skills:
- Big Data- Snowflake, Hadoop, Athena, HBase, Solr, Kafka, Cassandra, Oracle Exadata
- Reporting/BI Tools – Tableau/Splunk/QlikView
- Basic Knowledge of Payments Processing and CNP (Card Not Present) Fraud
- Streams – Kinesis/Kafka/ActiveMQ
- Cloud- Common Services, AMIs, instances, automation (Packer/Ansible/Chef/Puppet), Docker etc.
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 strive to create an inclusive environment, empower employees and embrace diversity. We encourage everyone to respond.
We sincerely appreciate the time and effort you spent in contacting us and we thank you for your interest in PlayStation.
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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 strive to create an inclusive environment, empower employees and embrace diversity. We encourage everyone to respond.
We sincerely appreciate the time and effort you spent in contacting us and we thank you for your interest in PlayStation.
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