Data Engineer, PlayStation
Gaming and digital entertainment provider
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Gaming and digital entertainment provider
1001+ employees
Be an early applicant
1001+ employees
Company mission
To create a gaming experience without barriers that fits the needs of players of all abilities.
Role
Who you are
- A Data Engineer with a strong background in AWS to build scalable, highly available data pipes and data warehousing solutions
- An energetic professional who is passionate about solving complex problems with data, and who plays well with others!
- The ideal candidate will be highly self-motivated and willing to work with multiple teams, local and remote. If this is you, please apply!
- 3+ years of relevant industry experience in a data engineering capacity
- Experience translating business needs to scalable data solutions
- Experience building highly scalable data pipelines (batch and streaming) using AirFlow, Spark, EMR, Kafka, AWS Kinesis
- Experience designing and developing solutions on AWS, including infrastructure as Code (e.g. Cloud Formation, Terraform, AWS CDK)
- Experience with AWS compute resources such as Lambda and EC2
- Experience with containers such as AWS ECR, ECS, and Docker
- Experience with Cloud Data Warehousing / Data Lake technologies and architectures such as Snowflake, AuroraDB or any relational database experience
- Proven data modeling skills - must have demonstrable experience designing models for data warehousing and analytics use-cases (e.g. from operational data store to semantic models)
- Python, shell scripting experience for automation, data manipulation and creation of applications
- Expert SQL skills to create views and power dashboards for analysis
- Strong understanding of software engineering principles - able to write elegant, scalable and maintainable code
- Strong communication skills - you will be able to tailor your communication to technical and less technical audiences alike
Desirable
- Experience with Airflow highly advantageous
- Experience with Snowflake highly advantageous
- Python expertise with object oriented programming knowledge
- Experience using dashboarding tools such as Tableau, Superset, Domo or similar
- Experience preparing large, complex datasets for Machine Learning pipelines
- Prior experience working in an Agile environment
- Gamer or experience in the gaming industry is a plus
What the job involves
- As Data Engineer you will implement end-to-end data solutions that are highly available, maintainable, secure and cost-effective
- Create and socialize designs, lead design sessions, perform technical reviews
- Build highly scalable, resilient data pipelines
- Design and build data models which produce high quality datasets
- Own, maintain and ensure high quality engineering standards and practices in the team
- Contribute to our SDLC tooling and processes
- Diagnose and solve platform and data issues - perform root cause analysis and apply solutions to prevent re-occurrence
- Deliver analysis that distills clear, meaningful insights from large, complex datasets
Salary benchmarks
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
Few candidates hear
back within 2 weeks
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
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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.
Diversity, Equity & Inclusion at PlayStation
- We're proud to celebrate diversity at PlayStation
- Our Employee Resource groups, including Women@PlayStation, REPRESENT@PlayStation, Wellbeing@PlayStation, and our award-winning LGBTQ+ group, Pride@PlayStation, actively promote inclusion in the workplace and beyond
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