Data Engineer II

Play Station isn’t just the Best Place to Play — it’s also the Best Place to Work. Today, we’re recognized as a global leader in entertainment producing The Play Station family of products and services including Play Station®5, Play Station®4, Play Station®VR, Play Station®Plus, acclaimed Play Station software titles from Play Station Studios, and more.

Play Station also strives to create an inclusive environment that empowers employees and embraces diversity. We welcome and encourage everyone who has a passion and curiosity for innovation, technology, and play to explore our open positions and join our growing global team.

The Play Station brand falls under Sony Interactive Entertainment, a wholly-owned subsidiary of Sony Group Corporation.

The Data Engineering Team fuels real-time, intelligent data insights for Play Station’s Cloud Streaming offering. In this role, you’ll collaborate closely with teams across Play Station to deliver a scalable and reliable data platform that drives a data-first culture and outlook.

As a Data Engineer II, you will develop and maintain server-side applications for shaping, managing, and transforming data on a large geographically distributed infrastructure for Play Station. Your work will include developing JVM based applications using Kotlin, Scala, or Java, Flink jobs, and APIs to provide real time data and insights across the Cloud Streaming ecosystem to ensure seamless data flow throughout our data pipeline.

You bring passion and expertise to continuously improve the value that our data platform provides to data producers and consumers across the organization, providing tooling, standard methodologies, and state-of-the-art technology to empower data-driven decisions to the company. You are self-motivated and thrive in a distributed team environment - comfortable taking initiative, handling your own work, and collaborating effectively across time zones and communication channels, embodying our one team mantra!

Design and implement middleware and backend systems capable of handling high throughput and load

Develop and maintain stream processing jobs using Flink (stateful / stateless), and implement scalable ETL jobs that enable our partners and customers to glean intelligent insight

Optimize performance, reliability, and monitoring of the data pipeline stack

Support migration efforts of our on-premises Kafka to new cloud technologies

Perform in-depth analysis of functional or business requirements

Contribute to architectural decisions for Play Station’s cloud streaming data pipeline

Liaise with product domain teams to help turn data into information, and information into business value

Bachelor’s or Master’s degree in Computer Science or a related field or equivalent practical experience

3+ years of experience in software development and backend engineering developing and maintaining high throughput and concurrent systems with high availability and fault tolerance

Proficient in JVM Languages (Kotlin, Scala, Java) and Python

Experience with Apache Kafka, Flink, Spark, and SQL

Knowledge of software paradigms like functional programming, object-oriented programming, TDD

Knowledge of web technologies including REST, JSON, gRPC, and Web Sockets

Expertise on data structures (JSON, Avro, Protobuf) as well as unstructured and semi-structured data

Experience with ETL, stream processing, real-time pipelines, and batch processing

Familiarity with software development tools and processes like Git and CI/CD

Track record monitoring and analyzing system performance, isolating issues or bottlenecks that could impact reliability, performance and scalability

Self-motivated, strong interpersonal and communication skills; ability to work with geographically remote teams

Experience with Amazon Web Services at enterprise scale including, but not limited to, Open Search, MSK, and EKS is a plus

Experience with Kubernetes, Docker, and cloud deployment technologies is a plus

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