Lead Engineer, PlayStation
APIs & Services
Gaming and digital entertainment provider
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Gaming and digital entertainment provider
1001+ employees
Be an early applicant
1001+ employees
Company mission
To create a gaming experience without barriers that fits the needs of players of all abilities.
Role
Who you are
- 8+ years of professional experience developing backend services handling high volumes of traffic
- Expertise in software architecture, design, and testing of distributed services
- Expertise in API design and security
- Experience as a technical leader in a team setting
- Experience packaging, deploying, and operating containerized services
- Experience developing systems in compliance with global data privacy and security regulations
- Experience in identity resolution for cross-platform mobile games
- Experience managing scalable infrastructure with a major cloud provider (e.g., AWS)
- Strong understanding of big data processing, message queuing, and distributed caches
- Experience with Rust or Golang preferred
- B.S. in Computer Science, or equivalent
What the job involves
- PlayStation Studios Mobile is seeking an experienced software engineer to build internal APIs and services supporting the development, publication, and operation of free-to-play mobile games; and to integrate these services with internal systems and tools
- Design and build backend services and APIs for mobile game development, publishing, and operations
- Integrate these services with tools & systems maintained by teams across the organization
- Establish CI/CD pipeline to facilitate the delivery of high-quality software
- Manage the cloud infrastructure needed to deploy and scale services
- Measure and improve service security, availability, throughput and cost efficiency
- Clearly communicate API & service behaviors to end users and stakeholders
- Influence and contribute to the mobile platform roadmap
Salary benchmarks
Our take
Since the release of the PS1 in 1994, PlayStation has been a consistent leader in the video gaming market. Its consoles are iconic in the gaming community - Playstation has produced both the top-selling and fastest-selling console of all time - and the company is still pushing boundaries. Its current flagship - the PS5 - promises to revolutionize gaming, featuring new technology that will create improvements across the board.
As well as its consoles, PlayStation has also developed online services, connecting its users and giving them access to diversified media. A PlayStation can be used for a huge range of activities - from Netflix to guided workouts - which has led to the expansion of the company's audience over time and across generations.
PlayStation faces competition in its field from the likes of Microsoft, with its Xbox range, and PC gaming, which has been becoming more popular in recent years. Regardless, PlayStation shows no signs of slowing down. The upcoming implementation of in-game ads in free games looks to significantly increase revenue, and the wider PlayStation gaming experience also appears to be evolving from plans to launch live service games in upcoming years.
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Insights
8% employee growth in 12 months
Company
Company benefits
- Private medical insurance
- Private dental insurance
- Flexible working policy (remote working, flexible hours)
- Free fruit every day in our offices
- On-site free gym (London & Liverpool)
- On-site subsidised cafés
- On-site bar (Thursdays & Fridays, London & Liverpool)
- Employee Assistance Programme
- Eye care assistance
- x2 volunteering days each year
- Group pension plan
- Discretionary bonus scheme
- Season ticket loans
- Life assurance
- Income protection
- 25 days holiday, plus Bank Holidays
- Discretionary days off over Christmas and summer
- Free giveaways of select first party products and services
- Discounts on PlayStation products
- Discounts on Sony products
- Access to other corporate discounts
Company HQ
East San Mateo, San Mateo, CA
Leadership
Jim Ryan
(CEO, not founder)Ryan joined Sony Interactive Entertainment Europe (SIEE) in 1994. Taking over as SIEE president in 2011, he later moved on to head of global sales and marketing at SIE in April 2016. Ryan has served as deputy president of SIE since January 2018, before being appointed CEO in February 2019.
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