Data Engineer II

About this role

<div class="content-intro"><p><strong>Why Sony Interactive Entertainment?</strong></p> <p>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.</p></div><h3><span style="color: #000000;">Data Engineer II</span></h3> <h3><span style="color: #000000;">Aliso Viejo, CA</span></h3> <p><span style="color: #000000;">The Data Engineering Team fuels real-time, intelligent data insights for PlayStation’s Cloud Streaming offering. In this role, you’ll collaborate closely with teams across PlayStation to deliver a scalable and reliable data platform that drives a data-first culture and outlook.</span></p> <p><span style="color: #000000;">As a Data Engineer II, you will develop and maintain server-side applications for shaping, managing, and transforming data on a large geographically distributed infrastructure for PlayStation. Your work will include developing JVM based applications using Kotlin, Scala, or Java, Flink jobs, and APIs to provide real time data and insights across the Cloud Streaming ecosystem to ensure seamless data flow throughout our data pipeline. You will also work closely with our Business Intelligence team to translate product requirements to usable insights that fuel our business decisions. You bring passion and expertise to continuously improve the value that our data platform provides to data producers and consumers across the organization, providing tooling, standard methodologies, and state-of-the art technology to empower data-driven decisions to the company. You are self-motivated and thrive in a distributed team environment - comfortable taking initiative, handling your own work, and collaborating effectively across time zones and communication channels, embodying our one team mantra!</span></p> <h2><span style="color: #000000;">Responsibilities</span></h2> <ul> <li style="color: #000000 !important;"><span style="color: #000000;">Design and implement middleware and backend systems capable of handling high throughput and load</span></li> <li style="color: #000000 !important;"><span style="color: #000000;">Develop and maintain stream processing jobs using Flink (stateful / stateless), and implement scalable ETL jobs that enable our partners and customers to glean intelligent insight</span></li> <li style="color: #000000 !important;"><span style="color: #000000;">Optimize performance, reliability, and monitoring of the data pipeline stack</span></li> <li style="color: #000000 !important;"><span style="color: #000000;">Support migration efforts of our on-premises Kafka to new cloud technologies</span></li> <li style="color: #000000 !important;"><span style="color: #000000;">Perform in-depth analysis of functional or business requirements</span></li> <li style="color: #000000 !important;"><span style="color: #000000;">Contribute to architectural decisions for PlayStation’s cloud streaming data pipeline</span></li> <li style="color: #000000 !important;"><span style="color: #000000;">Liaise with Business Intelligence and product domain teams to help turn data into information, and information into business value</span></li> </ul> <h2><span style="color: #000000;">Required Qualifications</span></h2> <ul> <li style="color: #000000 !important;"><span style="color: #000000;">Bachelor’s or Master’s degree in Computer Science or a related field or equivalent practical experience</span></li> <li style="color: #000000 !important;"><span style="color: #000000;">3+ years of experience in software development and backend engineering developing and maintaining high throughput and concurrent systems with high availability and fault tolerance</span></li> <li style="color: #000000 !important;"><span style="color: #000000;">Proficient in JVM Languages (Kotlin, Scala, Java) and Python</span></li> <li style="color: #000000 !important;"><span style="color: #000000;">Experience with Apache Kafka, Flink, Spark, and SQL</span></li> <li style="color: #000000 !important;"><span style="color: #000000;">Knowledge of software paradigms like functional programming, object oriented programming, TDD</span></li> <li style="color: #000000 !important;"><span style="color: #000000;">Knowledge of web technologies including REST, JSON, gRPC, and WebSockets</span></li> <li style="color: #000000 !important;"><span style="color: #000000;">Expertise on data structures (JSON, Avro, Protobuf) as well as unstructured and semi-structured data</span></li> <li style="color: #000000 !important;"><span style="color: #000000;">Experience with ETL, stream processing, real-time pipelines, and batch processing</span></li> <li style="color: #000000 !important;"><span style="color: #000000;">Familiarity with software development tools and processes like Git and CI/CD</span></li> <li style="color: #000000 !important;"><span style="color: #000000;">Track record monitoring and analyzing system performance, isolating issues or bottlenecks that could impact reliability, performance and scalability</span></li> <li style="color: #000000 !important;"><span style="color: #000000;">Self-motivated, strong interpersonal and communication skills; ability to work with geographically remote teams</span></li> <li style="color: #000000 !important;"><span style="color: #000000;">Experience with Amazon Web Services at enterprise scale including, but not limited to, OpenSearch, MSK, and EKS is a plus&nbsp;</span></li> <li style="color: