Sony Engagement Platform Services (SEPS) is building the next-generation platform that powers how fans connect with content and creators across Sony's entertainment ecosystem, aiming to unlock meaningful, data-driven engagement and drive new opportunities through a robust ecosystem of partners and creators.
Requirements
- Expertise in programming languages and technologies including Java, Python, Golang, and infrastructure as code.
- Experience delivering high performance, active-active, scalable services (Enterprise Java/J2EE, Web Services, Big Data/NoSQL).
- Track record monitoring and analyzing system performance, isolating issues or bottlenecks that could impact reliability, performance, and scalability.
- Identifying and mitigating technical risks.
- Strong knowledge of SQL and NoSQL programming (Oracle, Cassandra, Amazon Aurora) including both relational database schema designs and schema-less systems.
- Hands-on experience in Amazon Web Services, at enterprise scale is required including familiarity with DynamoDB, Aurora, EC2, and other AWS services.
- Experience executing performance testing and/or development efforts for a complex, high throughput system.
Responsibilities
- Define and evolve the architectural vision for the Sony Engagement Platform, ensuring it is scalable, secure, resilient, and aligned with long-term business and technical goals.
- Design and lead the development of core platform services, including APIs, microservices, identity, personalization, and data pipelines, enabling seamless integration across Sony’s global business units.
- Drive architectural consistency and technical excellence, establishing best practices for system design, software development, performance optimization, and observability.
- Evaluate and guide technology decisions, performing trade-off analyses and leading the adoption of emerging tools, frameworks, and patterns as appropriate.
- Mentor and influence engineering teams, elevating engineering quality by guiding design reviews, fostering architectural thinking, and advocating for platform-first principles.
- Champion platform scalability and efficiency, ensuring the platform can support rapid growth and a wide variety of use cases across Sony’s entertainment ecosystem.
- Document and communicate architecture standards and decisions, providing clear guidance to both technical and non-technical stakeholders.
Other
- BS Degree in Engineering, Computer Science or equivalent experience.
- 10+ years’ experience in software development, architecture, programming, design, and analysis.
- Extensive experience with agile development methodologies and test-driven development processes required.
- Ability to handle periodic on-call duty as well as out-of-band requests.
- Possess the drive and passion for quality with the ability to inspire, excite and motivate other team members.
