Staff Software Engineer, PlayStation

• At least eight years of professional programming experience
• Experienced in building and running complex highly scalable software systems
• Significant experience with software engineering practices, software automation and testing systems (for example, Jenkins)
• Proficient in Python and Javascript programming, along with software debugging expertise
• Robust understanding of computer and software architecture
• Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science or equivalent
• Possessing outstanding verbal and written communication skills, which encompass presenting to product managers, software engineers, project managers, and customers
• Ability to present technical information in a clear and concise manner to executives and non-technical leaders
• Strong interpersonal skills, with the ability to communicate problems in advance and tackle them rather than responding to them afterwards

Desirable

• Constructing future-facing software testing/automation architecture including infrastructure, technology stack, tools and pipelines
• Building software prototypes to evaluate groundbreaking testing and automation technology under investigation by PlayStation's tooling teams
• Develop telemetry systems and dashboards in order to make data-driven decisions about technical feature development
• Facilitate communication and feedback between engineers and quality engineering teams, capturing requirements for the tools and infrastructure that will tackle future test automation challenges
• Realize the software architectural vision: directly contribute to and provide technical leadership for that software's development, and onboard engineering teams to successfully use this software in production
• Write and coordinate plans, processes, samples, and documentation with our global software development, documentation, and remote offshore engineering teams
• Lead day-to-day activities of engineering team using Agile/Scrum methodology, potentially as scrum master
• Participate in recruitment to further develop the team. Foster their professional development
• Build an inclusive environment dedicated towards creativity and innovation