Principal Software Engineer
at Sonyinteractiveentertainmentglobal
- Seniority
- Staff Principal
- Location
- Ireland, Dublin
- Posted
- 6d ago
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at Sonyinteractiveentertainmentglobal
<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><p><span style="font-size: 12pt;">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.</span></p> <p><span style="font-size: 12pt;">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.</span></p> <p><span style="font-size: 12pt;">Participates in product road-map discussions and identify key areas for improvement in the product and incorporates these goals into ongoing & future development initiatives.</span></p> <h2><span style="font-size: 12pt;"><strong>What you'll be doing:</strong></span></h2> <ul> <li style="font-size: 12pt;"><span style="font-size: 12pt;">You are passionate about making distributed systems better and have an insatiable thirst to keep learning.</span></li> <li style="font-size: 12pt;"><span style="font-size: 12pt;">You have deep expertise in system engineering and have successfully improved the performance of the software stack.</span></li> <li style="font-size: 12pt;"><span style="font-size: 12pt;">You design and develop high-quality software solutions that meet requirements. Including code, debugging, and testing.</span></li> <li style="font-size: 12pt;"><span style="font-size: 12pt;">You have implemented rigorous standard methodologies for measuring, understanding, predicting, and improving how enterprise grade systems operate (even better if they happen to be Data oriented). </span></li> <li style="font-size: 12pt;"><span style="font-size: 12pt;">You have taken a project from scoping requirements to actual launch of project.</span></li> <li style="font-size: 12pt;"><span style="font-size: 12pt;">You know how to build a positive relationship with Architects to influence technology decisions. </span></li> <li style="font-size: 12pt;"><span style="font-size: 12pt;">You document designs, implementations and tests.</span></li> <li style="font-size: 12pt;"><span style="font-size: 12pt;">You have led a development community establishing and influencing quality engineering standard methodologies across the development community.</span></li> </ul> <p><span style="font-size: 12pt;"><strong>What we're looking for:</strong></span></p> <ul> <li style="font-size: 12pt;"><span style="font-size: 12pt;">BS Degree in Engineering, Computer Science or equivalent experience.</span></li> <li style="font-size: 12pt;"><span style="font-size: 12pt;">10+ years’ experience in software development, programming, design, and analysis.</span></li> <li style="font-size: 12pt;"><span style="font-size: 12pt;">Expertise in programming languages and technologies including Java, Python, Golang, and infrastructure as code (Terraform, Cloud formation).</span></li> <li style="font-size: 12pt;"><span style="font-size: 12pt;">Experience delivering high performance, active-active, scalable services (Enterprise Java/J2EE, Web Services, large-scale data systems/NoSQL) </span></li> <li style="font-size: 12pt;"><span style="font-size: 12pt;">Experience with Containers (Docker and Kubernetes)</span></li> <li style="font-size: 12pt;"><span style="font-size: 12pt;">Proficient in the software development process, including coding standards, code reviews, source control management, build processes, testing, and operations. </span></li> <li style="font-size: 12pt;"><span style="font-size: 12pt;">Track record monitoring and analyzing system performance, isolating issues or bottlenecks that could impact reliability, performance, and scalability.</span></li> <li style="font-size: 12pt;"><span style="font-size: 12pt;">Possess deep knowledge of computer science fundamentals such as object-oriented design, data structures, algorithm design, problem solving, and complexity analysis.</span></li> <li style="font-size: 12pt;"><span style="font-size: 12pt;">Identifying and mitigating technical risks.</span></li> <li style="font-size: 12pt;"><span style="font-size: 12pt;">Strong knowledge of SQL and NoSQL programming (Oracle, Cassandra, Amazon Aurora) including both relational database schema designs and schema-less systems.</span></li> <li style="font-size: 12pt;"><span style="font-size: 12pt;">Hands-on experience in Amazon Web Services, at enterprise scale is required including familiarity with DynamoDB, Aurora, EC2, and other AWS services.</span></li> <li style="font-size: 12pt;"><span style="font-size: 12pt;">Experience performing performance testing and/or development efforts for a complex, high throughput system.</span></li> <li style="font-size: 12pt;"><span style="font-size: 12pt;">Solid understanding of the path(s) customer requests flow from web browser to back-end.</span></li> <li style="font-size: 12pt;"><span style="font-size: 12pt;">Synchronous and asynchronous patterns and use cases. (REST, RPC, EDA, Eventual Consistency)</