Principal Services Engineer, PlayStation

• Are you on a mission to create games that bond players together into deeply invested communities?
• Would you like to work on something comedic with lighthearted and whimsical characters?
• Do you enjoy the challenge of solving complex, non-deterministic problems with simple, pragmatic solutions?
• We look for candidates who value joining a mission-focused team with a diverse set of backgrounds, experiences, interests, and viewpoints
• Production experience with distributed systems (or other non-deterministic software architectures) in a high-scale, high-latency environment
• Ability to communicate with customers of different technical and non-technical backgrounds to help them navigate technology and achieve their goals
• Ability to diagnose complex system failures using logging and metrics
• Ability to write, debug, and maintain code in Rust
• Embrace a “we” culture in addition to being an outstanding collaborator and communicator

Desirable

• As a Principal Services Engineer for teamLFG, you will drive the development of game-facing services from prototype to production, from requirements gathering and architectural planning to implementation and scaling
• Most importantly, you will work with a fun, dedicated, and passionate cross-discipline team devoted to turning a creative dream into a new franchise at PlayStation
• Build and maintain production-quality backend game services
• Design a comprehensive, pragmatic services architecture, covering all aspects of a live-services game (including sessions, matchmaking, player data, and service partitioning)
• Collaborate daily with a cross-disciplinary team to design the services features for the game
• Effectively write clear, concise, and accurate technical documentation and email communication, with the ability to summarize complex topics and achieve alignment across multiple teams
• Calmly deal with production incidents, participating in an on-call rotation after launch