Principal Software Engineer

Join Sony Interactive Entertainment as a Principal Software Engineer. In this role, you will partner with various teams to contribute to the architecture of large-scale commerce systems on the PlayStation Network Platform. You will design and develop high-quality software solutions, implement standard methodologies for system performance, and lead a development community in establishing quality engineering standards. The ideal candidate will have extensive experience in software development, programming, design, and analysis, as well as a strong knowledge of SQL and NoSQL programming, Amazon Web Services, and agile development methodologies.

• Contribuer à l'architecture de systèmes de commerce à grande échelle sur la plateforme PlayStation Network de Sony.
• Participer aux discussions sur la feuille de route du produit et identifier les domaines clés à améliorer.
• Concevoir et développer des solutions logicielles de haute qualité qui répondent aux exigences, y compris le code, le débogage et les tests.
• Possess outstanding verbal and written communication skills and be able to work with others at all levels, effective at working with geographically remote and culturally diverse teams
• Strong knowledge of SQL and NoSQL programming (Oracle, Cassandra, Amazon Aurora) including both relational database schema designs and schema-less systems
• Proven ability to take a project from scoping requirements to actual launch of project
• Hands-on experience in Amazon Web Services, at enterprise scale is required including familiarity with DynamoDB, Aurora, EC2, and other AWS services
• Experience with Containers (Docker and Kubernetes)
• Experience performing performance testing and/or development efforts for a complex, high throughput system
• Proficient in the software development process, including coding standards, code reviews, source control management, build processes, testing, and operations
• Track record monitoring and analyzing system performance, isolating issues or bottlenecks that could impact reliability, performance, and scalability
• Extensive experience with agile development methodologies and practices involving creating tests prior to coding required
• 10+ years’ experience in software development, programming, design, and analysis
• BS Degree in Engineering, Computer Science or equivalent experience
• Experience with open source technology stacks and scripting technologies required
• Conduct research on new technologies and methodologies, and make recommendations for improvement
• Understanding of loose coupling software design patterns (i.e., hexagonal architecture)
• Have an opinion around microservice vs SOA
• Identifying and mitigating technical risks
• Synchronous and asynchronous patterns and use cases. (REST, RPC, EDA, Eventual Consistency)
• Understanding of Domain Driven Design
• Experience delivering high performance, active-active, scalable services (Enterprise Java/J2EE, Web Services, large-scale data systems/NoSQL)
• Ability to handle periodic on-call duty as well as out-of-band requests
• Work with other Principal Engineers to align technology and architecture strategies
• Possess deep knowledge of computer science fundamentals such as object-oriented design, data structures, algorithm design, problem solving, and complexity analysis
• Solid understanding of the path(s) customer requests flow from web browser to back-end
• Expertise in programming languages and technologies including Java, Python, Golang, and infrastructure as code (Terraform, Cloud formation)
• Azure/GCP
• Game industry experience