Senior Software Engineer SDK

Overview

Why Sony Interactive Entertainment? Sony Interactive Entertainment isn’t just the Best Place to Play — it’s also the Best Place to Work. SIE is the company behind the Play Station brand, a dynamic technology leader delivering cutting‑edge hardware and network services to more than 100 million people. Your role at SIE will help create and nurture the experiences under the Play Station brand, a name synonymous with entertainment excellence and creativity.

• Implement and improve framework features and SDKs across multiple platforms while collaborating with application teams to help them meet their feature and performance requirements.
• Build clean, well‑documented, and reusable APIs to simplify integration with platform services.
• Ensure SDKs are performant, scalable, and backward‑compatible across versions.
• Collaborate with framework and application teams to define SDK requirements and developer experience.
• Create and maintain developer documentation, sample apps, and integration guides.
• Debug and resolve integration issues reported by partner teams or SDK consumers.
• Continuously improve SDK usability, reliability, and adoption.
• Collaborate with team lead and peers to seek and give feedback on pull requests, gather technical requirements, and prepare technical design documents.

• B.S. degree in Computer Science or equivalent fields.
• 3‑5 years of professional software development experience.
• Experience writing high‑performance code in C++.
• Experience with Jenkins or other CI/CD tools.
• Experience writing JavaScript and/or Type Script with popular frameworks such as React, Angular, or Ember.
• Solid understanding of API design principles, versioning, and backward compatibility.

• Familiarity with React Native.
• Experience building and shipping SDKs, libraries, or developer‑facing platforms.
• Experience developing on multiple platforms (Linux, Android, Windows).
• Experience with package management and distribution tools (e.g., Maven, Gradle, Cocoa Pods, npm, Conan).
• Experience working on cross‑platform SDKs (Android, iOS, Web, or desktop).

In addition to a competitive base pay range of $193,300—$289,900 USD, this role is eligible for SIE’s top‑tier benefits package that includes medical, dental, vision, matching 401(k), paid time off, wellness program, and employee discounts for Sony products. The role also may be eligible for a bonus package.

Equal Opportunity Statement:
Sony is an Equal Opportunity Employer. All persons will receive consideration for employment without regard to gender (including gender identity, gender expression and gender reassignment), race (including colour, nationality, ethnic or national origin), religion or belief, marital or civil partnership status, disability, age, sexual orientation, pregnancy, maternity or parental status, trade union membership or membership in any other legally protected category.

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