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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.\nAs a Senior Software Engineer, you will bring deep technical expertise, creative problem-solving, and strong communication skills to the design and development of cloud platforms, developer tools, and full-stack applications. You will help drive architectural decisions, build and scale production services, improve developer workflows, and establish engineering best practices.\nYou will also serve as a technical resource for other engineers and users, providing technical guidance, documentation, troubleshooting, setup assistance, and expertise for the systems and tools you help build.\nResponsibilities\nDesign, build, and maintain scalable, secure, reliable, and cost-effective cloud services on AWS, with a focus on serverless and event-driven architectures.\nArchitect and implement production AWS solutions using services such as Lambda, Step Functions, ECS, DynamoDB, S3, and related technologies.\nDesign and develop web applications and services spanning front-end, back-end, APIs, databases, and cloud infrastructure.\nIntegrate cloud services with internal and external systems using secure, reliable, and maintainable interfaces and engineering practices.\nDesign for operational reliability, including robust error handling, monitoring, and recovery from failures.\nDiagnose production issues and identify performance, reliability, usability, and developer-experience improvements.\nCollaborate with engineers, users, and partner teams to understand requirements, evaluate technical tradeoffs, and deliver practical solutions.\nContribute to technical documentation, engineering standards, code reviews, and architectural decisions.\nRequired Qualifications\nBachelor’s or Master’s degree in Computer Science or a related field, or equivalent practical experience.\n5+ years of professional software engineering experience in cloud platforms, backend systems, or related fields.\nStrong proficiency in Python, including software design, automated testing, and dependency management.\nHands-on experience designing and implementing production systems on AWS.\nExperience with distributed, asynchronous, or event-driven system architectures.\nDemonstrated experience shipping and supporting at least one production cloud service.\nExperience with infrastructure as code (IaC), particularly Terraform.\nExperience designing and integrating REST APIs or other service-to-service interfaces.\nExperience debugging complex systems and diagnosing issues across multiple services and components.\nStrong written and verbal communication skills and the ability to collaborate effectively across teams.\nDesired Qualifications\nExperience with serverless and container-based AWS technologies such as Lambda, Step Functions, ECS/Fargate, DynamoDB, S3, API Gateway, SQS, SNS, or EventBridge.\nExperience with AWS security and identity concepts, including IAM, least-privilege access, secrets management, and service-to-service authentication.\nExperience with observability, tracing, monitoring, and debugging using tools such as Amazon CloudWatch and AWS CloudTrail.\nExperience designing CI/CD pipelines and automated deployment workflows.\nExperience developing full-stack web applications using technologies such as JavaScript/TypeScript, React, Node.js, Java, or SQL databases.\nExperience designing internal developer platforms, workflow systems, or developer-facing tools.\nFamiliarity with Agile development methodologies such as Scrum.\nFamiliarity with mobile application development, particularly Android or iOS.\nFamiliarity with the PlayStation ecosystem.\nAt SIE, we consider several factors when setting each role’s base pay range, including the competitive benchmarking data for the market and geographic location.\nPlease note that the base pay range may vary in line with our hybrid working policy and individual base pay will be determined based on job-related factors which may include knowledge, skills, experience, and location. \nIn addition, this role is eligiblefor SIE’s top-tier benefits package that includes medical, dental, vision, matching 401(k), paid time off, wellness program and coveted employee discounts for Sony products. This role also may be eligible for a bonus package.Click here to learn more.\nThe estimated base pay range for this role is listed below.\n$193,300—$289,900 USD\nPlease note, Sony Interactive Entertainment conducts background checks at the offer stage for all new employees (which may include criminal background checks for some roles) and will need to process personal information to support these checks.\nPlease refer to our Candidate Privacy Notice for more information about what personal information we collect, how we use it, who we share it with, and your data protection rights.\nEqual Opportunity Statement:\nSony 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.\nWe strive to create an inclusive environment, empower employees and embrace diversity. 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