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Software Engineer II, Backend Services
4 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.
Software Engineer II, Backend Services
Location: San Francisco, (SOMA)
Sony Interactive Entertainment’s (SIE) PlayStation Video and Vue Services is disrupting and revolutionizing the traditional television industry with a massive selection of high-quality content for live streaming and download, targeted towards Cord-cutters. The Software Engineer II will help shape strategic platform and technology vision while designing and developing large scale, real-time, Cloud-based services deployed and leveraged globally by the PlayStation Network and consumed by a variety of client devices including PlayStation. This is a hands-on role. You should expect to spend most of your time coding, creating and building the services that are accessed by a variety of devices and platforms around the world.
Come help shape the future of the world’s largest gaming and media, immersive interaction and entertainment content distribution platform.
Responsibilities:
- Design, implement, ship, and maintain highly visible consumer-facing media features in various backend services with a strong sense of end to end ownership;
- Design and develop real time, efficient and highly scalable APIs;
- Implement various integrations with Sony PlayStation Network’s Media partners.
- Maintain and enhance existing backend services
- Development tools related to performance analysis and optimization
- Building infrastructure of micro-services
- Building CI/CD pipeline for Vue services with organization standard
- Innovation: bring in new ideas / new technologies where suites our use cases or improve the product
- Enforce key principles: Code and design for best performance, scalability and resiliency
Minimum Qualifications:
- BS/MS in Computer Science or a related technical field; 4+ years of coding experience in C/C++/Java and experience with REST services
- Strong Relational and NoSQL experience
- Required 3+ years working in high scalability server backend systems
- Experience building and developing Cloud-based applications or services, in AWS
- Experience developing high scale, distributed applications
- Strong foundation in CS with an emphasis in data structures, software
- Ability to do technical deep dives into code and architecture
Helpful but not required:
- Experience working with Kafka, Redis, Spark, Hadoop, or similar technology stack at scale.
- Experience in Media related and/or OTT Video streaming backend services
- Experience with HLS/DASH, MPEG/CMAF, DVR is a plus
- Experience in Machine Learning, or Commerce is a plus
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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