Senior Analytics & Activation Engineer, PlayStation
$147.7-221.5k
Gaming and digital entertainment provider
Open for applications
Gaming and digital entertainment provider
1001+ employees
Open for applications
$147.7-221.5k
1001+ employees
Company mission
To create a gaming experience without barriers that fits the needs of players of all abilities.
Role
Who you are
- Experience building and sustaining scalable data pipelines and transformation frameworks using SQL, dbt, Spark, or related technologies
- Strong SQL and data modeling capabilities
- Experience building cloud-native data solutions on AWS, GCP, or Azure
- Experience in managing workflow orchestration, pipeline automation, and distributed data processing systems
- Knowledge of software engineering principles such as CI/CD, version control, testing, and observability
- Experience crafting telemetry and event collection systems across web, app, or platform environments
- Experience with end-to-end data collection processes including requirements gathering, instrumentation build, validation, and downstream consumption
- Experience in building integration services and handling APIs, partner feeds, and distributed systems
- Experience in employing monitoring, observability, and data quality validation techniques
- Solid grasp of web technologies, APIs, and concepts related to distributed systems
- Experience with tracking and telemetry platforms like Customer Journey Analytics, Snowplow, Segment, Google Analytics, or comparable tools
- Experience working with enterprise marketing, analytics, CDPs, or customer engagement platforms like Adobe Experience Platform, Salesforce Data Cloud, Braze, Segment, or comparable ecosystems
- Experience assisting experimentation, personalization, or audience activation workflows through scalable data infrastructure
- Familiarity with customer data platforms, experimentation frameworks, and modern marketing technology ecosystems
- Experience developing technical solutions using JavaScript, Python, or similar languages
- Experience collaborating across engineering, analytics, marketing, product, and business teams
- Ability to drive technical solutions from architecture through implementation with strong ownership and communication skills
- Experience working within large-scale software engineering organizations using Agile or related methodologies
- SaaS or enterprise software implementation experience
- Ability to educate non-technical users about data and telemetry concepts
- Japanese language proficiency is a plus but not required
- The ideal candidate demonstrates skill in engaging with diverse teams and turning business needs into scalable technical solutions. They maintain strong engineering principles, consider the overall system, and have experience crafting reusable data and activation components that develop with advancing technologies and shifting business priorities
- Successful candidates are equally comfortable discussing architecture, telemetry development, data modeling, integrations, and operational reliability with both technical and non-technical collaborators
What the job involves
- In this position, you will develop and assemble scalable data and activation systems to support analytics, experimentation, personalization, and customer engagement across PlayStation platforms
- You will join forces with engineering, product, analytics, and marketing colleagues to build telemetry frameworks, transformation pipelines, and integration services! These solutions secure reliable data collection, modeling, and activation across diverse internal and external platforms
- The position covers data engineering, platform integration, and activation infrastructure, demanding solid software engineering fundamentals and experience handling modern cloud-native data systems
- Partner with collaborators to translate business and analytics requirements into scalable telemetry solutions
- Develop reusable telemetry and event-driven data collection systems spanning web, app, and platform experiences
- Develop integrations between internal systems and external marketing, analytics, and partner platforms using APIs and cloud-native services
- Support experimentation, personalization, and audience activation workflows through dependable data infrastructure
- Construct and enhance scalable data pipelines and transformation frameworks using SQL, Spark, dbt, or related technologies
- Implement monitoring, observability, and data quality checks throughout pipelines and services
- Contribute to platform architecture decisions with a focus on modularity, scalability, maintainability, and reuse
- Collaborate with cross-functional teams to define data contracts, schemas, and instrumentation standards
- Improve developer and analyst workflows through automation and self-service enablement
- Contribute to engineering standards including testing, CI/CD, documentation, and operational excellence
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 revolutionise 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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Company Specialist at Welcome to the Jungle
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
Hideaki Nishino
(CEO)Previously Senior VP of Product STrategy and Management at Sony. Before that he worked for Sony as a Deputy General Manager and a Senior Director.
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