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Sr. Software Engineer

United States, San Mateo, CA

Are you passionate about world class technology?

Do you enjoy developing engineering solutions for software used by tens-of-millions of passionate technology loyalists around the world?

Would you like a career opportunity that combines both your passion for games and skills as a software engineer?

Then you need to come and play with us here at Sony PlayStation®!

We have a great opportunity to join our PlayStation Media Team. This role will be essential to the transformation of our web-based framework used to power Media applications on PS5.

As a Sr. Software Development Engineer in the team, you will help redesign and implement the web framework on PS5. You will collaborate with a dedicated browser porting team, adjacent engineering teams, architects, engineers and support staff across PlayStation to build a solid framework and partner solutions.

We encourage innovation and expect developers to take a high level of ownership throughout the software life cycle. Supporting the ongoing growth of our platform.

We work in an Agile Scrum environment with a team of highly engaged engineers. You will contribute to architectural direction for our framework and tooling on PlayStation® Platforms. Maintain operational ownership of critical components running in the production environment. Become a subject matter expert and provide strong technical leadership and mentoring.

As a Sr. Software Engineer, you will

• Provide component and system level designs for frameworks and features on PlayStation®5 and other PlayStation Platforms.
• Implement a web-based client-side framework and associated components using C++ and JavaScript/TypeScript.
• Implement and manage SDK components that are released to partners.
• Develop and maintain internal and external tools using C++, JavaScript/TypeScript and other industry relevant languages.
• Maintain ongoing operational ownership of components deployed to the production environment.
• Provide developer support to external partners using our SDKs.
• Perform testing and bug fixing.
• Perform code reviews.
• Integrate and maintain Continuous Integration solutions into project pipelines.
• Become a subject matter expert and provide strong technical leadership.
• Assist with hiring and training/mentoring of new staff.

Required Skills and Capabilities

• Bachelor’s degree or higher in Computer Science or equivalent professional experience.
• 5 + years development in web development and/or client system architecture experience.
• Experience working with source management system platforms such as Git.
• Experience in full life-cycle agile software development.
• Experience in object-oriented analysis and design.
• Strong knowledge of algorithms, data structures, design patterns, and implementation approaches.
• Strong communication and interpersonal skills.
• Desire to build, collaborate and develop strong and positive team relationships.
• Attention to detail, organization skills, and strong work ethic.
• You possess a drive and passion for quality with the ability to inspire, excite and motivate other team members.

Your Responsibilities to the Team

• Have a strong desire to educate others and help people with problems.
• Lead and develop innovative techniques, design patterns and tools that take advantage of our advanced platform architectures to increase quality and performance on PlayStation® platforms.
• Promote and foster innovation within the team to produce creative solutions to problems.
• Develop projects that will be the foundation of future projects and client platforms.
• Analyze software problems and provide practical items to developers.
• Be able to perform responsibilities with little direction or supervision.
• Be comfortable speaking to large groups.

Beneficial Experience

• Familiarity with Continuous Integration pipelines.
• Experience with development on PlayStation®5 or PlayStation®4.
• Experience with Containers (Docker).
• Experience in developing cross-platform code.
• Experience with test-driven development.
• Experience leading engineering teams and mentoring others.

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