Principal Software Engineer, PlayStation

• Extensive hands-on technical expertise coupled with ingenuity, broad industry knowledge and excellent communication skills
• You are passionate about making distributed systems better and have an insatiable thirst to keep learning
• You have deep expertise in system engineering and have successfully improved the performance of the software stack
• You design and develop high-quality software solutions that meet requirements. Including code, debugging, and testing
• You have implemented rigorous standard methodologies for measuring, understanding, predicting, and improving how enterprise grade systems operate (even better if they happen to be Data oriented)
• You have taken a project from scoping requirements to actual launch of project
• You know how to build a positive relationship with Architects to influence technology decisions
• You document designs, implementations and tests
• You have led a development community establishing and influencing quality engineering standard methodologies across the development community
• BS Degree in Engineering, Computer Science or equivalent experience
• 10+ years’ experience in software development, programming, design, and analysis
• Expertise in programming languages and technologies including Java, Python, Golang, and infrastructure as code (Terraform, Cloud formation)
• Experience delivering high performance, active-active, scalable services (Enterprise Java/J2EE, Web Services, large-scale data systems/NoSQL)
• Experience with Containers (Docker and Kubernetes)
• Proficient in the software development process, including coding standards, code reviews, source control management, build processes, testing, and operations
• Track record monitoring and analyzing system performance, isolating issues or bottlenecks that could impact reliability, performance, and scalability
• Possess deep knowledge of computer science fundamentals such as object-oriented design, data structures, algorithm design, problem solving, and complexity analysis
• Identifying and mitigating technical risks
• Strong knowledge of SQL and NoSQL programming (Oracle, Cassandra, Amazon Aurora) including both relational database schema designs and schema-less systems
• Hands-on experience in Amazon Web Services, at enterprise scale is required including familiarity with DynamoDB, Aurora, EC2, and other AWS services
• Experience performing performance testing and/or development efforts for a complex, high throughput system
• Solid understanding of the path(s) customer requests flow from web browser to back-end
• Synchronous and asynchronous patterns and use cases. (REST, RPC, EDA, Eventual Consistency)
• Understanding of Domain Driven Design
• Understanding of loose coupling software design patterns (i.e., hexagonal architecture)
• Have an opinion around microservice vs SOA

Desirable

• The Principal Software Engineer role requires partnering across Product Management, Architects, Engineering, Hosting and Operations
• Will use their understanding of technology, frameworks, and constraints to help pave the way for future innovation on our platforms
• You will contribute to the architecture of large-scale commerce systems on Sony’s PlayStation Network Platform
• Your work will follow industry standard guidelines to enable highly available, active-active, extensible services
• Participates in product road-map discussions and identify key areas for improvement in the product and incorporates these goals into ongoing & future development initiatives
• Conduct research on new technologies and methodologies, and make recommendations for improvement
• Proven ability to take a project from scoping requirements to actual launch of project
• Work with other Principal Engineers to align technology and architecture strategies
• Extensive experience with agile development methodologies and practices involving creating tests prior to coding required
• Experience with open source technology stacks and scripting technologies required
• Ability to handle periodic on-call duty as well as out-of-band requests
• Possess outstanding verbal and written communication skills and be able to work with others at all levels, effective at working with geographically remote and culturally diverse teams