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.
Location
San Mateo, CA (Telecommuting and/or working from home may be permissible pursuant to company policies.)
Role Overview
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
- Education & Experience: 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.
- Key Responsibilities & Technical Tasks:
- 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.
- Tools & Technologies:
- Chef
- Screwdriver v2/v3
- Jenkins
- Pogo
- Artifactory
- Git
- High-volume, highly-available messaging clusters including Kafka and Zookeeper
- Hashicorp Consul
- Kubernetes
- Package management
- Splunk
- Monitoring systems
- Certificate and Identity management systems
Compensation & Benefits
- Estimated Base Pay Range: $274,971.00 – $302,000.00/year (Base pay range may vary in line with our hybrid working policy; individual base pay will be determined based on job-related factors which may include knowledge, skills, experience, and location).
- Bonus: May be eligible for a bonus package.
- Top-Tier Benefits Package:
- Medical
- Dental
- Vision
- Matching 401(k)
- Paid time off
- Wellness program
- Coveted employee discounts for Sony products
Additional Information
- Background Checks: Sony Interactive Entertainment conducts background checks at the offer stage for all new employees (which may include criminal background checks for some roles) and will need to process personal information to support these checks. Please refer to the Candidate Privacy Notice for more information about what personal information is collected, how it is used, who it is shared with, and data protection rights.
- 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, maternity 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.
- Fair Chance Policy: Sony Interactive Entertainment is a Fair Chance employer and qualified applicants with arrest and conviction records will be considered for employment.