Software Engineering Manager

Join Sony Interactive Entertainment as a Software Engineering Manager, where you will lead initiatives for Platform Quality, Operational Excellence, and Engineering Productivity for the PlayStation Portal. You will mentor and grow a team of experienced software engineers, drive platform performance and stability, and foster an inclusive and collaborative work environment. This role directly influences the quality, reliability, performance, security, and operational excellence of the PlayStation Portal experience for millions of users worldwide.

• Lead and mentor a team of experienced software engineers, fostering a culture of technical excellence, ownership, collaboration, and innovation.
• Drive Platform Performance, Stability, Security, and Observability through data-driven engineering practices, automation, telemetry, and cross-functional collaboration.
• Establish clear goals, expectations, and growth opportunities for team members while ensuring they feel valued, empowered, and heard.
• The ideal candidate combines strong technical leadership with exceptional people management skills and a passion for building highly reliable consumer products at scale. You will lead a team of experienced engineers while driving execution and continuous improvement of the PlayStation Portal platform used by millions of players worldwide
• Experience building telemetry, observability, logging, monitoring, analytics, or diagnostics systems
• Experience with Performance Optimization, Stability Analysis, Reliability Engineering, and Production Debugging
• Strong understanding of Android/AOSP platform architecture and system-level software development
• Excellent communication and stakeholder management skills with the ability to build strong partnerships across engineering, product, QE, security, and leadership organizations
• A proactive, adaptable leadership style with a deep commitment to team success and organizational excellence
• Proven experience fostering an inclusive, collaborative, and high-performing engineering culture
• Strong understanding of mobile architectures, Android ecosystems, development trends, and emerging technologies
• Proven experience with Agile development methodologies, including Scrum and iterative development practices
• Experience developing multi-threaded applications with strong understanding of concurrency, synchronization, and performance optimization
• Strong advocacy for personal and professional growth, ensuring every team member feels valued, supported, and empowered to succeed
• Demonstrated ability to lead, measure, and optimize UI and application performance, including UI responsiveness, startup performance, rendering performance, and efficient network utilization
• Experience managing software engineering teams delivering large-scale platform, system software, mobile, or consumer products
• 7+ years of experience delivering technologies in the interactive entertainment industry, computer graphics, SDKs, frameworks, Android applications, mobile game development, or related fields
• Excellent people management skills, including goal setting, performance reviews, coaching, mentoring, organizational planning, and talent development
• Strong technical writing and documentation skills, with the ability to communicate designs, implementation details, architecture decisions, and testing strategies across global teams
• Strong project management skills with experience prioritizing work, managing resources, mitigating risks, and delivering projects on schedule
• Experience with CI/CD systems, automated testing infrastructure, and engineering productivity tooling
• Experience taking products or platforms from requirements definition through global launch and live operation
• Proficiency in Android development using Java, Kotlin, and Android Studio
• Bachelor’s or Master’s degree in Computer Science, Computer Engineering, or a related field, or equivalent practical experience
• Experience developing consumer electronics, gaming devices, handheld devices, or embedded systems
• Experience with metrics platforms, dashboards, business intelligence tools, and data visualization systems
• Experience with Platform Security, Security Engineering, Security Architecture, or Platform Hardening initiatives
• Experience with cloud-based analytics pipelines, distributed systems, and large-scale data processing platforms
• Familiarity with Performance Benchmarking, Reliability Engineering, SRE practices, and Operational Excellence methodologies
• Experience with modern JavaScript frameworks such as React, React Native, Angular, or similar technologies
• Experience working with globally distributed engineering organizations
• Experience building internal engineering portals, operational dashboards, analytics platforms, or developer productivity tools