Senior Full Stack Engineer

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.

Team Overview:

The PlayStation Studios Tools and Technology Group is one of various central tech teams working within PlayStation Studios, supporting both game development teams and other central tech and service teams such as QA. We work on debug analysis tools such as crash reporting, test automation and video streaming technology. Some of our tech is widely used by every PlayStation developer worldwide and as well as working closely with game teams inside the PlayStation Studios family we have strong connections with groups in the PlayStation Platform business.

Role overview:

We seek a Senior Front-End or Full Stack Software Engineer to join the team working on the Crash Reporting System. This system collects crash information from PlayStation platforms as well as from other platforms targeted by PlayStation Studios. It provides a user interface to help game developers monitor crashes during development and release cycles, triage problems and identify fixes while integrating with existing workflows such as Jira bug tracking. This is a full stack role, although it primarily involves implementing front end features using the React framework.

Required Experience, Skills and Capabilities

• 8+ years professional experience working with medium/large complex code bases
• Extensive knowledge and hands-on experience in React
• Proven experience in full stack development
• Basic understanding of UI/UX design principles
• Experience in REST API design and implementation
• Proficiency with Git
• Experience with code reviews
• Ability to work independently
• Strong communication and interpersonal skills
• Desire to collaborate and to develop strong and positive team relationships
• Attention to detail, organisational skills, and a strong work ethic

Beneficial Experience

• SQL
• Java backend development
• Cloud Technologies (e.g. AWS, Docker, Kubernetes)
• Knowledge of React best practices, and ability to explain them to other developers
  
• DevOps and CI/CD
• Rust
• Automated deployment tools (e.g. Terraform, Ansible)
• Search indexing tools (e.g. Solr, Lucene, ElasticSearch)
• Understanding of crashes and core files
• Linux development
• Interest in video games  
• Game development experience

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. 

PlayStation is a Fair Chance employer and qualified applicants with arrest and conviction records will be considered for employment.