Manager of Software Engineering, PlayStation
Kernel Security
Gaming and digital entertainment provider
Posted today
Gaming and digital entertainment provider
1001+ employees
Posted today
1001+ employees
Company mission
To create a gaming experience without barriers that fits the needs of players of all abilities.
Role
Who you are
- Degree in computer science or equivalent experience
- Experience leading high-performing engineering teams who collaborate with peer teams globally, balancing technical innovation and excellence along with strong people management
- Background in kernel hardening, low-level system hardening, exploit mitigation. Familiarity with the security community
- Expertise to lead a team to deliver with an RTOS kernel – preferably BSD-based or real-time implementations of POSIX-type kernels such as Linux will be considered
- Experience in operating within a distributed team with international travel to accelerate collaboration as needed
- Provide mentorship and growth for team members
- Plus if have done upstreaming to Open-Source OSes for security fixes
- Experience with C and C++ languages along with an understanding of associated toolchains
- Has collaborated with hardware teams and vendors for low level function and debugging
What the job involves
- Establishing a team of high performing engineers focused on improving the security hardening of the OSes for PlayStation devices with an emphasis on global collaboration
- Drive projects across the theme of security hardening from the kernel and driver layers, including memory safety technology adoption, mitigation deployment, sandboxing/isolation, refactoring, and other approaches / tooling as necessary
- Building new methodologies for identifying and mitigating security threats to PlayStation low-level systems in collaboration with our global security teams across our platforms
- Collaborate closely with hypervisor, platform security and other OS teams(driver, integration) to improve security while balancing performance and productization concerns
- This role requires openness to new ways of approaching low-level software to achieve stronger security
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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