Data Engineer
Hybrid
London, United Kingdom
Full Time
13-03-2025
Job Specifications
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 Corporation.
The Partners Data Engineering team (LA) provides data pipe, warehousing and analytics solutions for the PlayStation Partners Platform - a vital collection of applications and services used by our partners (content creators, game developers and publishers) worldwide to create and publish games and content on PlayStation.
Our mission is to deliver timely, scalable and high quality data and insights to empower our business to make data-driven decisions, drive operational efficiencies and identify revenue opportunities.
As Data Engineer you will implement end-to-end data solutions that are highly available, maintainable, secure and cost-effective.
We are looking for
A Data Engineer with a strong background in AWS to build scalable, highly available data pipes and data warehousing solutions
An energetic professional who is passionate about solving complex problems with data, and who plays well with others!
The ideal candidate will be highly self-motivated and willing to work with multiple teams, local and remote. If this is you, please apply!
What you’ll be doing:
Create and socialize designs, lead design sessions, perform technical reviews.
Build highly scalable, resilient data pipelines
Design and build data models which produce high quality datasets.
Own, maintain and ensure high quality engineering standards and practices in the team
Contribute to our SDLC tooling and processes.
Diagnose and solve platform and data issues - perform root cause analysis and apply solutions to prevent re-occurrence
Deliver analysis that distills clear, meaningful insights from large, complex datasets.
What we are looking for:
3+ years of relevant industry experience in a data engineering capacity
Experience translating business needs to scalable data solutions.
Experience building highly scalable data pipelines (batch and streaming) using AirFlow, Spark, EMR, Kafka, AWS Kinesis.
Experience designing and developing solutions on AWS, including infrastructure as Code (e.g. Cloud Formation, Terraform, AWS CDK)
Experience with AWS compute resources such as Lambda and EC2
Experience with containers such as AWS ECR, ECS, and Docker.
Experience with Cloud Data Warehousing / Data Lake technologies and architectures such as Snowflake, AuroraDB or any relational database experience.
Proven data modeling skills - must have demonstrable experience designing models for data warehousing and analytics use-cases (e.g. from operational data store to semantic models)
Python, shell scripting experience for automation, data manipulation and creation of applications.
Expert SQL skills to create views and power dashboards for analysis.
Strong understanding of software engineering principles - able to write elegant, scalable and maintainable code.
Strong communication skills - you will be able to tailor your communication to technical and less technical audiences alike
Desirable Skills:
Experience with Airflow highly advantageous
Experience with Snowflake highly advantageous
Python expertise with object oriented programming knowledge.
Experience using dashboarding tools such as Tableau, Superset, Domo or similar.
Experience preparing large, complex datasets for Machine Learning pipelines.
Prior experience working in an Agile environment.
Gamer or experience in the gaming industry is a plus.
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, maternity or parental status, 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.
About the Company
Sony Interactive Entertainment, the company behind PlayStation, pushes the boundaries of entertainment and innovation, starting from the launch of the original PlayStation in Japan in 1994. Today, we continue to deliver innovative and thrilling experiences to a global audience through our PlayStation line of products and services that include generation-defining hardware, pioneering network services, and award-winning games. Headquartered in San Mateo, California, with global functions in California, London, and Tokyo, and g... Know more
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