Staff Software Engineer

How would you like to influence the most successful gaming platform of all time, by designing the tools used to test and analyze the technology PlayStation uses to deliver an immersive user experience for our gamers?

Sony Interactive Entertainment (PlayStation) has an exciting career opportunity! We are looking for a Staff Software Engineer who will be responsible for driving the effort to research and develop the next generation of PlayStation's testing technology. This technology - including automation tools, framework and CI infrastructure - is used to analyze the quality of front end workflows on the PS5.

At PlayStation, we are passionate about both teamwork and technology. We love building the systems that millions of people use and are our own first customers. We strive to be at the forefront of development technologies and are a diverse company with developers on four continents. Join us and coordinate with our internal software quality engineering teams in analyzing the core technology behind PlayStation console user experiences of tomorrow. If this sounds exciting, please apply!

• Constructing future-facing software testing/automation architecture including infrastructure, technology stack, tools and pipelines.
• Building software prototypes to evaluate groundbreaking testing and automation technology under investigation by PlayStation's tooling teams.
• Develop telemetry systems and dashboards in order to make data-driven decisions about technical feature development.
• Facilitate communication and feedback between engineers and quality engineering teams, capturing requirements for the tools and infrastructure that will tackle future test automation challenges.
• Realize the software architectural vision: directly contribute to and provide technical leadership for that software's development, and onboard engineering teams to successfully use this software in production.
• Write and coordinate plans, processes, samples, and documentation with our global software development, documentation, and remote offshore engineering teams.
• Lead day-to-day activities of engineering team using Agile/Scrum methodology, potentially as scrum master.
• Participate in recruitment to further develop the team. Foster their professional development.
• Build an inclusive environment dedicated towards creativity and innovation.

• At least eight years of professional programming experience.
• Experienced in building and running complex highly scalable software systems.
• Significant experience with software engineering practices, software automation and testing systems (for example, Jenkins).
• Proficient in Python and Javascript programming, along with software debugging expertise.
• Robust understanding of computer and software architecture.
• Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science or equivalent.

• Possessing outstanding verbal and written communication skills, which encompass presenting to product managers, software engineers, project managers, and customers.
• Ability to present technical information in a clear and concise manner to executives and non-technical leaders
• Strong interpersonal skills, with the ability to communicate problems in advance and tackle them rather than responding to them afterwards.

The following technical qualifications are a plus (but not required):

• React Native software framework development experience.
• Experience with Jenkins pipelines and Groovy.
• Systems programming experience (C++).
• Machine learning background.
• Game development background.
• Japanese language familiarity is a strong plus.
• Well established reputation in the OSS community with a proven track record for contributions towards multiple projects.

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 will ensure that individuals with disabilities are provided reasonable accommodation to participate in the job application or interview process, to perform essential job functions, and to receive other benefits and privileges of employment. Please contact us to request accommodation.