Sr Software Engineer

Why Play Station?

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 PlayStation5, PlayStation4, PlayStation

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.

Sony Interactive Entertainment has an extraordinary opportunity in the Tools, Framework and Infrastructure team! We are looking for a motivated and creative individual to help build test tools, frameworks, and infrastructure for delivering high quality software which drives the Play Station experience.

As a Sr. Software Engineer, you'll focus on building test frameworks and infrastructure, internal tools, and automating test workflows. You will collaborate closely with Quality Engineering and Software Engineering teams to build robust systems to ensure products delivered to customers and game studios are of the highest quality.

• Design, build, and maintain test frameworks, tooling and infrastructure for teams which develop and test software for the Playstation console.
• Integrate automated tests into CI/CD pipelines using Jenkins, Git Hub Actions or similar tools.
• Collaborate with Quality and Development teams to enable testing of both hardware and software components in isolation.
• Construct telemetry systems and dashboard in order to make data-driven decisions about technical feature development.
• Build tooling for AI-driven testing initiatives

• Master’s degree in Computer science, Electrical Engineering, or related fields
• 4+ years experience in designing, developing and maintaining tools and applications in C++, Python, or Java script with a focus on building testing tools, and test frameworks at scale. (C++, JS experience preferred)
• Experience with test automation frameworks (e.g. Appium, Mocha.js, etc.)
• Hands-on experience with CI/CD systems like Jenkins, Git Hub Actions or similar tools.
• Comfortable working in Linux and Windows-based development environments.
• Strong communication skills and the ability to work cross-functionally with engineering and QA teams.
• Hands-on experience applying AI/ML techniques in practical engineering contexts such as test case generation, flaky test detection, log analysis, or workflow automation.
• Strong debugging skills.

• Experience with test/build automation on PCs, consoles or other embedded systems
• Familiarity with Node, React Native/Web, Kubernetes, REST APIs
• Experience with testing audio peripherals (headphones, earbuds, microphones) or input devices (controllers).
• Strong understanding of connectivity testing with USB, Bluetooth (e.g. BlueZ stack, HCI tools), or wireless protocols and debugging tools such as sniffers or logs analyzers.
• Working knowledge Docker-based test environments.
• Game industry background
• Exposure to integrating or building tools powered by large language models
• Japanese Language familiarity a plus

• Jenkins (CI/CD), Git Hub Actions, ArgoCD
• Python
• JavaScript, React, Next.js
• C, C++ or Rust
• Git, Git Hub
• Device connectivity tools (e.g., ADB, Bluetooth analyzers)
• Containerization technology such as Docker, buildpack and Kubernetes.

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