About the role
Why Sony Interactive Entertainment?
Sony Interactive Entertainment isn’t just the Best Place to Play — it’s also the Best Place to Work. Sony Interactive Entertainment (SIE) is the company behind the PlayStation brand. As a subsidiary of Sony Group Corporation, we’re part of a proud legacy of innovation and excellence. SIE is a dynamic technology company, delivering cutting-edge hardware and network services to more than 100 million people and an entertainment leader, home to some of the most beloved and recognizable intellectual properties (IP) in the world. Our role at SIE is to create and nurture the experiences under the PlayStation brand, a name synonymous with entertainment excellence and creativity.
Role Overview
Manager, Software Engineering
San Mateo, CA
Sony Interactive Entertainment LLC seeks a Manager, Software Engineering in San Mateo, CA to lead the delivery of common libraries targeting multiple projects across multiple platforms, owning the technical roadmap.
Requirements
- Master’s degree in Computer Engineering, Electronic Engineering, or related field or equivalent, and two (2) years of experience working with Dev teams and improving services and infrastructural changes as a part of root cause analysis and resolution of incidents.
- Creating and enhancing automation to ensure deployment of systems.
- Enhancing infrastructures and auto-scale in the face of increasing network traffic or storage pressure.
- Working with teams to implement requirements for Pub-Sub system (Kafka).
- Setting up and maintaining monitoring for applications using Splunk and Yamas.
- Setting up Splunk dashboards to read from local metric exporter and provide quick visibility into cluster state.
- Leading projects to develop tools based on user’s requirements and usage, concentrated to reduce the troubleshooting time of engineers and improve visibility into the infrastructure.
- Utilizing tools including Chef, Screwdriver v2/v3, Jenkins, Pogo, Artifactory, and Git.
- Working with high-volume, highly-available messaging clusters including Kafka and Zookeeper, Hashicorp Consul, Kubernetes, Jenkins, Package management, Splunk, Monitoring systems, and Certificate and Identity management systems.
- Telecommuting and/or working from home may be permissible pursuant to company policies.
Compensation and Benefits
- Estimated Base Pay Range: $274,971.00 – $302,000.00 / year (Base pay range may vary in line with hybrid working policy; individual base pay determined based on job-related factors including knowledge, skills, experience, and location).
- Bonus: Role may be eligible for a bonus package.
- Benefits Package: Top-tier benefits including medical, dental, vision, matching 401(k), paid time off, wellness program, and coveted employee discounts for Sony products.