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Principal Software Engineer - Gaming Network Services
1 year ago
Why PlayStation?
PlayStation isn’t just the Best Place to Play — it’s also the Best Place to Work. Today, we’re recognized as a global leader in entertainment producing The PlayStation family of products and services including PlayStation®5, PlayStation®4, PlayStation®VR, PlayStation®Plus, acclaimed PlayStation software titles from PlayStation Studios, and more.
PlayStation also strives to create an inclusive environment that empowers employees and embraces diversity. We welcome and encourage everyone who has a passion and curiosity for innovation, technology, and play to explore our open positions and join our growing global team.
The PlayStation brand falls under Sony Interactive Entertainment, a wholly-owned subsidiary of Sony Corporation.
Principal Software Engineer – Gaming Network Services
Location: San Francisco, CA (SoMa)
Are you interested in pushing the boundaries of the game industry? Do you like working at
the cutting edge of technology and creating experiences that will touch over 100 million
gamers on PlayStation?
The Principal Software Engineer will architect, design, and develop the most visible cloud-based network
software services for the PlayStation® and other applications/devices. S/he will provide strong technical
leadership in cloud-based software development and scalable API designs for the implementation of
game and social features of PlayStation.
Our team is innovating and developing the next wave of unparalleled game experiences on PlayStation.
You will work alongside stakeholders in engineering, product, design, and research to build great
experiences for customers and creators around the world.
PlayStation Network currently has over 100 million monthly active users. This is a great opportunity to
engage and delight our customers at scale.
Responsibilities
- Works with other architects and engineers to plan and design how engineering components will fit
- together
- Design and implement RESTful Web Services API and algorithms
- P roduce excellent, thorough design and development documentation
- Works under tight time constraints and respond to rapidly evolving requirements
- Mentor others in development technologies, tools, and processes
- Contributes to feature analysis from an engineering perspective
- Drives technical objectives and architectural initiatives
Qualifications
- 8+ years of solid programming experience in Java core libraries and developing web server
- applications, object oriented design and design patterns, and passionate about writing high
- quality and well-architected code
- Experience with NoSQL a big plus
- Passionate about quality and writing clean, readable code that scales and performs well
- Experience with Agile/Scrum software development methodologies
- 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 and scripting technologies required
- Ability to handle periodic on-call duty as well as out-of-band requests
- Strong written and verbal communication skills
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Equal Opportunity Statement:
Sony is an Equal Opportunity Employer. All persons will receive consideration for employment without regard to gender (including gender identity, gender expression and gender reassignment), race (including colour, nationality, ethnic or national origin), religion or belief, marital or civil partnership status, disability, age, sexual orientation, pregnancy or maternity, trade union membership or membership in any other legally protected category.
We strive to create an inclusive environment, empower employees and embrace diversity. We encourage everyone to respond.
PlayStation is a Fair Chance employer and qualified applicants with arrest and conviction records will be considered for employment.