Sr. Software Engineer

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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.

The Accounts team is a seasoned team at SIE which interacts with various critical systems server side, client side and commerce related teams. Using state of the art technology, leveraging AWS services, we create high transaction, low latency systems that live at the heart of every module in platform engineering.

This is a fast paced, high-visibility engineering position within SIE's platform engineering organization helping to establish a linear scale, highly available, fault-tolerant, globally distributed accounts services platform.

This next generation Accounts platform will support the fast growing SIE customer base on both world class PlayStation consoles, ,devices and PC platforms. This key role will lead the technology transformation of the accounts services platform including existing and new services to support the dramatic customer growth on the platform.

As a Senior Software Development Engineer in the team, you will design and develop highly scalable, distributed services, as well as collaborate with product managers, architects , engineers, and operations team members across playstation. This is a fast-paced environment that leverages lightweight SOA design patterns. We encourage innovation and expect developers to take a high level of ownership throughout the software life cycle.

If you are a strong developer with experience and interest in distributed systems, databases, performance and scalability, we'd like to talk to you.

Basic Requirements:

• Bachelor's Degree or Master's Degree in Engineering, Computer Science or equivalent experience
• 5+ years of experience in developing business critical software using Enterprise Java/J2EE, Web Services, REST, JSON/XML, expert level of object oriented programming analysis and design
• 2+ years' experience developing with AWS native services such as EC2, EKS, S3, Kinesis, Glue, Lambda, SQS, SNS and DynamoDB
• Experience developing applications on Java Services on Linux platforms
• Experience with servlet containers (e.g., Tomcat, Reactor Netty), JAXRS, Spring, and related technologies
• Experience developing web services using JSON and XML
• Prior experience working with Python is a plus
• Proficient in software development life cycle, including coding standards, code reviews, source control management, build processes, testing, and operations
• Demonstrated ability to take a project from initial scope out of requirements to launch
• Possess deep knowledge of computer science fundamentals such as object oriented design, data structures, algorithm design, problem solving, and complexity analysis.

Preferred Qualifications:

• Experience with micro service architecture.
• Experience creating UML artifacts (e.g., class, sequence, and component diagrams)
• Experience with AI driven development tools for code review and pipeline management
• Experience in requirements engineering, describing software product features, and technical designs.
• Experience with large scale account management systems with high throughput requirements
• Experience in deploying, operating, and managing services in AWS or other cloud environments.
• Asynchronous programming, Non-blocking I/O, Event-driven and backpressure handling
• Experience building high performance, active-active, linearly scalable production services (Enterprise Java/J2EE, or C++, Web Services, REST, SQL/NoSQL data layers)

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Please note that the base pay range may vary in line with our hybrid working policy and individual base pay will be determined based on job-related factors which may include knowledge, skills, experience, and location.

In addition, this role is eligible for SIE's top-tier benefits package that includes medical, dental, vision, matching 401(k), paid time off, wellness program and coveted employee discounts for Sony products. This role also may be eligible for a bonus package. Click here to learn more.

The estimated base pay range for this role is listed below.

$177,300-$265,900 USD

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