PlayStation Online Service Lifecycle Development Engineer
Why PlayStation?
PlayStation isn’t just the Best Place to Play — it’s also the Best Place to Work. Today, we’re recognized as a global leader in entertainment producing The PlayStation family of products and services including PlayStation®5, PlayStation®4, PlayStation®VR, PlayStation®Plus, acclaimed PlayStation software titles from PlayStation Studios, and more.
PlayStation also strives to create an inclusive environment that empowers employees and embraces diversity. We welcome and encourage everyone who has a passion and curiosity for innovation, technology, and play to explore our open positions and join our growing global team.
The PlayStation brand falls under Sony Interactive Entertainment, a wholly-owned subsidiary of Sony Group Corporation.
■ About the Organization/Team We are a software engineering organization responsible for the design, development, and operation of PlayStation online services.
We develop various online services used daily by PlayStation users worldwide—such as online rankings, matchmaking, and trophies—and provide them to game development companies and PlayStation system software. These services require stable operation over long periods, making them a major pillar of our business. It is an environment with the scale and influence unique to PlayStation, where both game development companies and game players are our direct customers.
The team is relatively young, primarily composed of people in their 20s and 30s, with a culture that allows for flat discussions regardless of position from the perspectives of technology, cost, and efficiency. It is a workplace where we continue to pursue technical improvements and challenges every day to steadily deliver PlayStation services to game users and game development companies around the world.
▼ About This Position PlayStation online services are a large-scale online platform that has been providing services to users worldwide for many years. In this position, while facing numerous server applications and platforms that have been operated for over 15 years, you will work toward realizing a sustainable service lifecycle to continue supporting PlayStation online services in the long term.
The target services are diverse, each with different characteristics and operational requirements. We are proceeding with improvements based on the premise of long-term operation while gradually migrating each service to a common and standardized platform foundation.
In this migration process, you will collaborate with various service-related teams and overseas locations to consider designs and migration methods suitable for each service, while balancing cost, operational efficiency, and maintainability. While an understanding of diverse technologies and project management skills are required, this is a position where you can feel both the excitement of evolving large-scale services used worldwide through technical improvements and the fulfillment of supporting them.
Furthermore, aiming to create an environment where services can be released and operated safely and efficiently, we are actively working on operational efficiency through automation, as well as operational support and improvement utilizing AI. We are looking for teammates who can work together to build better operational foundations and service management mechanisms while facing the unique characteristics of large-scale services.
▼ Main Responsibilities ・Design consideration, technical problem solving, and improvement development accompanying middleware and framework updates ・Planning and implementation of database and framework migrations considering service characteristics ・Continuous efficiency through automation and standardization of development and operational processes ・Review and modernization of design and architecture based on the characteristics of each application ・Collaboration and technical coordination with stakeholders to advance migration to the common foundation
▼ Experience Gained in This Position ・Experience in improving and operating a large-scale online platform that supports PlayStation users and game development companies worldwide ・Experience in long-term service lifecycle improvement by working across multiple services with different technical backgrounds and operational requirements ・Experience in initiatives to evolve a group of long-running services into a common and standardized foundation ・Experience in promoting service operation efficiency and improvement through automation and AI utilization ・Global service development and operation experience through collaboration with overseas teams
■ Required Skills, Technical Areas, Language Proficiency, etc.
【MUST】
▼ Skills/Experience ・3+ years of server-side experience (at the level of requirement definition and architecture design) ・Experience in incident response, root cause investigation, and improvement ・Must meet at least one of the following "WANT" conditions
▼ Language ・Japanese: Native or business level (JLPT N1 or equivalent or higher) ・English: Level where real-time communication via text messages on chat tools is possible while using AI, and able to read aloud prepared English sentences. Practical experience in business is not mandatory.
【WANT】
・Experience using public cloud ・Experience in automating Ops tasks ・Experience in parameter tuning for web applications, storage, and cache ・Experience using SaaS-type monitoring tools and APM tools ・Development using storage/cache technologies such as MySQL, DynamoDB, Memcached, and Redis ・Development using web technologies such as REST API and WebSocket ・Development and operation in environments using virtualization technologies such as Docker; development of distributed systems, high concurrency systems, and high availability systems ・Experience in server construction using Terraform, Chef, etc.
【Ideal Candidate Profile】
・Someone who finds joy in team achievements and growth ・Someone who can cooperate while maintaining open communication with those around them ・Someone who can take an interest in global and large-scale service development and operation ・Someone who wants to pursue the ideal state of software by analyzing design assets and solving problems, much like solving a mystery in a game from limited information ・Someone who can work toward realizing realistic optimal solutions through systematization and continuous improvement, rather than just temporary fixes, and can expand those to other services
Equal Opportunity Statement:
Sony is an Equal Opportunity Employer. All persons will receive consideration for employment without regard to gender (including gender identity, gender expression and gender reassignment), race (including colour, nationality, ethnic or national origin), religion or belief, marital or civil partnership status, disability, age, sexual orientation, pregnancy or maternity, trade union membership or membership in any other legally protected category.
We strive to create an inclusive environment, empower employees and embrace diversity. We encourage everyone to respond.
PlayStation is a Fair Chance employer and qualified applicants with arrest and conviction records will be considered for employment.