PlayStation Global
Technology
PrincipalSoftwareEngineer
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“Principal Software Engineer at PlayStation Global. Skills: Distributed systems, Commerce systems, System architecture, Software development. Contribute to architecture. Enable highly available services”
Industry & Context.
Problem solving; Isolating issues; Isolating bottlenecks
Periodic on-call duty, Out-of-band requests
What They're Looking For.
Must Have
BS Degree in Engineering, 10+ years’ experience in software development, Expertise in Java, Expertise in Python, Expertise in Golang, Expertise in Terraform, Expertise in Cloud formation, Experience delivering high performance services, Experience delivering active-active services, Experience delivering scalable services, Experience with Enterprise Java/J2EE, Experience with Web Services, Experience with large-scale data systems, Experience with NoSQL, Experience with Docker, Experience with Kubernetes, Proficient in software development process, Track record monitoring system performance, Track record analyzing system performance, Deep knowledge of computer science fundamentals, Knowledge of SQL programming, Knowledge of NoSQL programming, Knowledge of Oracle, Knowledge of Cassandra, Knowledge of Amazon Aurora, Hands-on experience in Amazon Web Services, Experience performing performance testing, Experience development efforts for complex system, Solid understanding of customer request flow, Understanding of synchronous patterns, Understanding of asynchronous patterns, Understanding of Domain Driven Design, Understanding of loose coupling design patterns, Experience with agile development methodologies, Experience with open source technology stacks, Experience with scripting technologies, Ability to handle periodic on-call duty, Ability to handle out-of-band requests
Nice to Have
Game industry experience, Azure experience, GCP experience
What You'll Do.
Contribute to architecture
Enable highly available services
Enable active-active services
Enable extensible services
Participate in road-map discussions
Identify key areas for improvement
Incorporate goals into development
Design high-quality software solutions
Develop high-quality software solutions
Implement standard methodologies
Measure enterprise systems operation
Understand enterprise systems operation
Predict enterprise systems operation
Improve enterprise systems operation
Take project from scoping
Build positive relationship with Architects
Influence technology decisions
Document implementations
Lead development community
Establish quality engineering standards
Influence quality engineering standards
Monitor system performance
Analyze system performance
Mitigate technical risks
Design relational database schemas
Design schema-less systems
Perform performance testing
Conduct development efforts
Understand customer request flow
Research new technologies
Research new methodologies
Make recommendations for improvement
Align technology strategies
Align architecture strategies
Create tests prior to coding
How You'll Work.
Team & Collaboration
Partnering across Product Management; Partnering across Architects; Partnering across Engineering; Partnering across Hosting; Partnering across Operations; Work with other Principal Engineers
Communication Scope
Excellent communication skills; Verbal communication skills; Written communication skills
Process & Methodology
Agile development methodologies
Full Job Description
Why Sony Interactive Entertainment? Sony Interactive Entertainment isn’t just the Best Place to Play — it’s also the Best Place to Work. Sony Interactive Entertainment (SIE) is the company behind the PlayStation brand. As a subsidiary of Sony Group Corporation, we’re part of a proud legacy of innovation and excellence. SIE is a dynamic technology company, delivering cutting-edge hardware and network services to more than 100 million people and an entertainment leader, home to some of the most beloved and recognizable intellectual properties (IP) in the world. Our role at SIE is to create and nurture the experiences under the PlayStation brand, a name synonymous with entertainment excellence and creativity. The Principal Software Engineer role requires partnering across Product Management, Architects, Engineering, Hosting and Operations. Extensive hands-on technical expertise coupled with ingenuity, broad industry knowledge and excellent communication skills. Will use their understanding of technology, frameworks, and constraints to help pave the way for future innovation on our platforms. You will contribute to the architecture of large-scale commerce systems on Sony’s PlayStation Network Platform. Your work will follow industry standard guidelines to enable highly available, active-active, extensible services. Participates in product road-map discussions and identify key areas for improvement in the product and incorporates these goals into ongoing & future development initiatives. What you'll be doing: You are passionate about making distributed systems better and have an insatiable thirst to keep learning. You have deep expertise in system engineering and have successfully improved the performance of the software stack. You design and develop high-quality software solutions that meet requirements. Including code, debugging, and testing. You have implemented rigorous standard methodologies for measuring, understanding, predicting, and improving how enterprise grad
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