Data Engineer II

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Role description

The Data Engineering Team fuels real-time intelligent data insights for PlayStations Cloud Streaming this role youll collaborate closely with teams across PlayStation to deliver a scalable and reliable data platform that drives a data-first culture and outlook.

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 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!

Responsibilities

• Design and implement middleware and backend systems capable of handling high throughput and load

• 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

• Optimize performance reliability and monitoring of the data pipeline stack

• Support migration efforts of our on-premises Kafka to new cloud technologies

• Perform in-depth analysis of functional or business requirements

• Contribute to architectural decisions for PlayStations cloud streaming data pipeline

• Liaise with product domain teams to help turn data into information and information into business value

Required Qualifications

• Bachelors or Masters degree in Computer Science or a related field or equivalent practical experience

• 3 years of experience in software development and backend engineering developing and maintaining high throughput and concurrent systems with high availability and fault tolerance

• Proficient in JVM Languages (Kotlin Scala Java) and Python

• Experience with Apache Kafka Flink Spark and SQL

• Knowledge of software paradigms like functional programming object oriented programming TDD

• Knowledge of web technologies including REST JSON gRPC and WebSockets

• Expertise on data structures (JSON Avro Protobuf) as well as unstructured and semi-structured data

• Experience with ETL stream processing real-time pipelines and batch processing

• Familiarity with software development tools and processes like Git and CI/CD

• Track record monitoring and analyzing system performance isolating issues or bottlenecks that could impact reliability performance and scalability

• Self-motivated strong interpersonal and communication skills; ability to work with geographically remote teams

• Experience with Amazon Web Services at enterprise scale including but not limited to OpenSearch MSK and EKS is a plus

• Experience with Kubernetes Docker and cloud deployment technologies is a plus

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In addition this role is eligible for SIEs top-tier benefits package that includes medical dental vision matching 401(k) paid time off wellness program and coveted employee discounts for Sony products. This role also may be eligible for a bonus package. Click here to learn more.

The estimated base pay range for this role is listed below.

$150100 - $225100 USD

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