Software Engineering Manager , San Mateo, CA

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.

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®Plus, and 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 Corporation.

San Mateo, CA

Play Station is building the future of connected gaming experiences through a unified platform powering services and experiences across consoles, clients, and the cloud. We are looking for a Software Engineering Manager to lead our Platform Engineering team—driving adoption, stability, and innovation that impacts developers and players worldwide.

Lead and grow a dedicated platform engineering team (6–10 engineers), ensuring delivery on roadmaps that prioritize resilience, developer velocity, and global scalability.

Evangelize the platform strategy across Play Station by partnering closely with engineering leaders across service and client teams to align on integration, adoption, and long-term technical direction.

Maintain accountability for platform health—ensuring services are highly available, cost-efficient, and observable—while establishing standards for platform-wide operations.

Collaborate with global teams across San Mateo, Tokyo, London, and more to drive consistent adoption and integration of platform services.

Partner with leadership and stakeholders to translate strategic priorities into executable technical roadmaps that advance the Play Station ecosystem.

Mentor and coach engineers to grow their careers, fostering a culture of technical excellence, inclusivity, and innovation.

Drive continuous improvement in developer tooling, CI/CD pipelines, service performance, and observability to accelerate the developer experience.

BS/MS in Computer Science or equivalent professional experience with 8+ years of overall experience in the software engineering domain.

Proven experience leading backend/platform teams in production environments, with a track record of building resilient and scalable systems.

3+ years of experience designing, building, and operating backend services (RESTful and/or Graph

QL) at scale.

Strong understanding of AWS primitives (e.g., Dynamo

DB, Redis, S3, Lambda, ECS/EKS) and cost-optimization strategies.

Demonstrated success in coaching and mentoring engineers, balancing delivery with individual growth.

Experience building developer platforms and driving adoption across diverse engineering teams.

Deep knowledge of Graph

QL, including schema design, federation, and service adoption patterns.

Familiarity with CI/CD pipelines, service observability (metrics, logging, tracing), and production incident management.

Background in low-latency, high-scale service architecture and server performance optimization.

Prior experience working in globally distributed teams and influencing technical direction across org boundaries.

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