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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.\nStaff Software Engineer, Data Governance & Trust\nSan Mateo, CA\nAbout the role\nSony Interactive Entertainment is seeking a Staff Software Engineer to help shape and deliver the technical foundation for Data Governance and Trust across our data and AI ecosystem.\nOur ambition is to make data understandable, reliable, reusable, and appropriately governed for the people, applications, and AI systems that depend on it. Achieving this requires shared platform capabilities, clear ownership, and governance practices embedded into how teams build and operate data products.\nIn this role, you will establish technical direction, lead initiatives across teams, and remain hands-on in architecture and implementation. You will connect metadata, lineage, data quality, semantic context, and policy controls into practical capabilities that help teams use data with confidence.\nYou will also be a trusted technical representative for the Data Governance and Trust group. We are looking for someone who can lead productive discussions, explain complex tradeoffs, navigate difficult conversations, and build alignment across engineering, business, governance, security, and privacy stakeholders.\nThis is an individual contributor leadership role with impact across teams.\nWhat you will do\nSet technical direction and deliver shared capabilities\nShape the architecture and technical roadmap for Data Governance and Trust in partnership with engineering leadership, product partners, domain teams, and governance stakeholders.\nLead initiatives from discovery and ambiguous requirements through design, implementation, adoption, and ongoing operation.\nDesign and build services, integrations, APIs, and automation that connect metadata, ownership, classification, lineage, quality signals, and policy information across the data ecosystem.\nEstablish reusable engineering patterns that embed trust requirements into data publishing, discovery, access, consumption, change, and retirement.\nStay hands-on through prototypes, production code, design reviews, and the resolution of complex technical problems.\nLead conversations and build alignment\nServe as a technical spokesperson for the group in architecture discussions, planning forums, domain engagements, and leadership reviews.\nFacilitate discussions among stakeholders with different priorities, surface disagreements constructively, and guide decisions toward clear outcomes.\nExplain technical choices, business implications, risks, and costs to both engineering and nontechnical audiences.\nChallenge assumptions respectfully, incorporate feedback, and help teams reach workable agreements on standards, ownership, and implementation.\nDocument decisions, clarify responsibilities and dependencies, and follow through on commitments across teams.\nBuild relationships that enable adoption through credibility, collaboration, and influence.\nMake governance practical and sustainable\nPartner with governance, security, privacy, and domain stakeholders to translate agreed requirements into implementable controls and traceable evidence.\nHelp domain teams define data contracts, quality expectations, ownership responsibilities, and lifecycle practices supported by shared platform capabilities.\nConnect quality and reliability signals to accountable owners, consumer communications, and remediation workflows.\nEvaluate build, buy, and integration choices based on interoperability, usability, reliability, operating cost, and long-term flexibility.\nMeasure success through improvements in approved data use, adoption, reliability, reuse, and operational effort.\nPrepare the foundation for AI consumption\nDevelop ways to make business meaning, provenance, quality status, and permitted-use information available to applications and AI through supported interfaces.\nPartner with AI and platform teams on governed access to data and context, including traceability and defined behavior when required trust information is missing.\nSupport shared semantic definitions and metadata models while preserving clear accountability within business domains.\nStrengthen the team\nMentor engineers in system design, technical judgment, stakeholder engagement, and leadership.\nRaise engineering standards for reliability, maintainability, testing, observability, and documentation.\nHelp engineers take broader ownership and communicate their recommendations effectively.\nWhat you bring\nA track record of designing, building, and operating production software or data platforms, with demonstrated impact across multiple teams.\nDeep knowledge of metadata management, data governance, lineage, data quality, privacy engineering, access controls, or closely related platform domains, grounded in practical delivery.\nHands-on expertise building or extending metadata and catalog platforms such as Atlan, Alation, DataHub, OpenMetadata, or comparable systems.\nA practical understanding of federated ownership models, data stewardship, semantic models, business glossaries, or certified metrics.\nThe ability to work across warehouse, lakehouse, streaming, and data transformation environments.\nDemonstrated delivery of data contracts, automated lineage, quality checks, or policy as code.\nSound judgment in translating ambiguous business or policy requirements into clear technical designs and delivered outcomes.\nProven ability to lead initiatives across teams without direct reporting authority.\nSkill in leading difficult technical or organizational conversations, resolving competing priorities, and securing clear decisions and commitments.\nStrong written and verbal communication, including architecture proposals, decision documents, and presentations tailored to different audiences.\nA collaborative approach grounded in listening, respectful challenge, and shared accountability.\nA commitment to mentoring engineers, supported by examples of improving the effectiveness of the teams around you.\nWhat would be valuable\nStrong software engineering skills, including proficiency in a language such as Python, Java, or Go, and practical SQL experience.\nExperience with distributed systems, APIs, integrations, and cloud data infrastructure, including sound judgment about reliability, consistency, security, and failure handling.\nExperience implementing controls that generate operational evidence.\nDelivering governed data or context services for analytics, applications, machine learning, or AI agents.\nLeading platform adoption, modernization, or migration across organizational boundaries.\nRepresenting technical work through internal forums, technical writing, communities of practice, or external presentations.\nWhat success looks like\nPartner teams understand the technical direction, the decisions required, and their responsibilities.\nCross-team discussions produce documented decisions, accountable owners, and sustained follow-through.\nPriority workflows demonstrate connected governance capabilities in production, supported by clear operating ownership.\nProducers and consumers can access relevant meaning, ownership, lineage, quality, and permitted-use information within their workflows.\nShared patterns reduce repeated implementation work and manual coordination.\nEngineers across the group grow in technical judgment, communication, and leadership.\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$216,200—$324,400 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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