Lead Software Engineer - Data
Sony Interactive Entertainment
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Description
Why Sony Interactive Entertainment?
Sony Interactive Entertainment isn’t just the Best Place to Play — it’s also the Best Place to Work. Sony Interactive Entertainment (SIE) is the company behind the PlayStation brand. As a subsidiary of Sony Group Corporation, we’re part of a proud legacy of innovation and excellence. SIE is a dynamic technology company, delivering cutting-edge hardware and network services to more than 100 million people and an entertainment leader, home to some of the most beloved and recognizable intellectual properties (IP) in the world. Our role at SIE is to create and nurture the experiences under the PlayStation brand, a name synonymous with entertainment excellence and creativity.
PlayStation Studios is the game development division of Sony PlayStation, and is responsible for developing some of the most recognisable and ambitious console games and franchises on PlayStation, including The Last of Us, Horizon, Spider-Man, God of War, Helldivers and Gran Turismo.
We work with some of the best game studios in the world, and use data to help them make their games even better. We provide end-to-end analytics services for PlayStation Studios and use data to help them in the game development lifecycle. We are looking for talented people to join us in pushing the boundaries of game analytics for PlayStation games.
This role offers a flexible hybrid working arrangement, with most time spent working remotely unless you prefer to come into the office. We attend the office for key moments that matter, such as important team meetings, collaboration sessions and business activities where in-person engagement is beneficial.
Role Overview:
As a Lead Software Engineer with experience in data pipelines, you’ll work in our cross-disciplinary Data Platform team to develop integrations and APIs supporting our Data Platform. These will include working with our data pipelines. You’ll work closely with our Game Analytics data engineers, who process this data to gain valuable insights both during game development and post-launch. As a lead, you’ll scale our platform and help us define its technical direction, expand its reach, and help define and build the future of the data platform for PlayStation games.
What you’ll be doing:
- Own integrations with our data platform, including BI tooling, APIs, internal websites and other tooling
- Drive improvements to achieve our technical and business goals
- Enable studio self-service on our platform
- Work closely with the Devops team, our data and frontend engineers, and stakeholders across the studio business group
- Support our existing tooling, improving quality and documentation
- Be a technical expert and share than knowledge with your colleagues
What we’re looking for:
- You have experience building data integrations between different platforms, including APIs and pipelines
- You are adept at writing code in Go, or write Python with a willingness to learn Go
- You are experienced in building robust, scalable, and resilient services
- You can demonstrate measurable impact that you have made in your current and previous roles
- You enjoy having primary ownership of parts of a platform
- Experience with AWS services, such as Amazon S3, Lambda, Redshift, Kinesis, Data Firehose, Athena and AWS Glue
Nice to have:
- Has made use of AI during the development cycle, including use of Claude Code, Codex or other harnesses
- Experience integrating with with Omni Analytics, or a similar BI tool (Looker, Tableau etc)
- GitHub and GitHub Actions experience
Please note, Sony Interactive Entertainment conducts background checks at the offer stage for all new employees (which may include criminal background checks for some roles) and will need to process personal information to support these checks.
Please refer to our Candidate Privacy Notice (where applicable) for more information about what personal information we collect, how we use it, who we share it with, and your data protection rights.
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.
Sony Interactive Entertainment is a Fair Chance employer and qualified applicants with arrest and conviction records will be considered for employment.
Benefits
- parental leave
About this role
At Sony Interactive Entertainment, you'd join the Data Platform team supporting PlayStation Studios' most ambitious game franchises. Your focus would be building and owning integrations that connect our data platform with BI tools, APIs, internal systems, and other services—essentially creating the infrastructure that lets game studios access and act on data throughout development and beyond. Working closely with game analytics engineers, DevOps, and frontend teams, you'd help define the technical direction of this platform while enabling studios to serve themselves more effectively.
The role demands strong experience building data integrations and pipelines across platforms, with solid coding ability in Go or Python. You'd need to design services that are robust, scalable, and resilient, and ideally you can point to measurable impact from your previous work. Familiarity with AWS services like S3, Lambda, Redshift, and Kinesis is expected. Experience with BI tools, GitHub, or AI-assisted development would strengthen your candidacy, though these aren't required.
This is a hybrid position based in London, offering flexibility to work mostly remotely while joining the office for key collaboration moments. The role suits someone ready to take ownership of platform components and grow into a technical leadership position within a team building tools for some of the world's most recognizable game studios.
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