Senior Software Engineer

Sony Playstation; Greater London; On-site; GBP 70,000 - 90,000; Full time

Job summary

A leading gaming company in Greater London is seeking a Senior Software Engineer to build AI Middleware for the enterprise. The role involves implementing servers, developing data pipelines, and productizing AI services. Ideal candidates will have 6+ years in software engineering with ML experience, proficiency in Python or TypeScript, and excellent communication skills. Join a vibrant culture focused on innovation and creativity in interactive entertainment.

Benefits

Inclusive work environment

Opportunity for innovation

Qualifications

• 6+ years of software engineering experience with ML or data systems.
• Proficiency in Python or TypeScript with strong fundamentals.
• Practical knowledge of ML/GenAI concepts.

Responsibilities

• Build and operate AI middleware and manage servers.
• Develop scalable data pipelines to enable agent knowledge.
• Translate prototypes into production-grade microservices.

Skills

Software engineering

Machine learning

Python

TypeScript

Data pipeline tooling

Cloud platforms

Communication skills

Tools

Kubernetes

Docker

Terraform

Job description

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.

Sony Interactive Entertainment is looking for a Senior Software Engineer to join our team. You will be a part of an entirely new team getting formed with a laser focus of building an AI Middleware for the enterprise. You’ll collaborate closely with other dedicated Software developers, ML engineers and Integration specialists to deliver this platform. For those who excel at navigating intricate, fast-moving projects, overcoming tough technical hurdles, and staying at the forefront of modern web development trends, this opportunity is a perfect fit. Plus, you’ll be part of a vibrant PlayStation culture that values innovation, creativity, and—of course—having fun shaping the future of interactive entertainment.

If you’re ready to join a team that drives innovation and builds experiences enjoyed by players around the world, this is the challenge you’ve been waiting for!

Key Responsibilities

• Build and Operate AI Middleware: Implement, and manage Model Context Protocol (MCP) servers, gateways, and API wrappers that securely expose enterprise systems, tools, and data for AI agent consumption.
• Build and Govern Agentic Workflows: Deploy and extend agentic AI platforms (e.g., LangGraph, LangChain) to deliver resilient orchestration, enforcing governance, tracing, audit logs, and human-in-the-loop controls.
• Develop Enterprise Data & Context Pipelines: Build scalable pipelines for parsing, cleaning, embedding, and storing structured and unstructured enterprise data (text, code, multimedia) to enable retrieval-augmented generation and domain-specific agent knowledge.
• Productize and Optimize AI Services: Translate prototypes into production‑grade microservices (Python/TypeScript, Kubernetes, CI/CD), optimizing for latency, throughput, resilience, and token/cost efficiency.
• Ensure Security, Compliance, and Reliability: Engineer AI middleware and workflows that meet enterprise standards for safety, governance, compliance, and fault tolerance, with built‑in monitoring, telemetry, and automated evaluation harnesses.
• Partner multi‑functionally with architects, platform teams, and product owners to deliver business‑aligned AI solutions, while staying at the forefront of emerging LLM and middleware trends.

Qualifications

• 6+ years of software engineering experience, including approximately 2 years working on ML, data, or LLM‑focused systems.
• Proficiency in Python or TypeScript (ideally both) with strong software‑engineering fundamentals (testing, design patterns, observability, performance tuning).
• Practical knowledge of ML/GenAI concepts: embeddings, vector search, prompt engineering, fine‑tuning, and evaluation metrics.
• Solid understanding of workflow orchestration frameworks for LLM/GenAI pipelines.
• Hands‑on experience with data‑pipeline tooling and batch/stream ETL.
• Solid understanding of cloud platforms (AWS preferred), containerization (Docker, Kubernetes), and infrastructure‑as‑code (Terraform, CDK).
• Excellent communication skills and a proven ability to collaborate across teams in a fast‑paced environment.

Domain Expertise

• LLM tooling: LangChain, LangGraph, LlamaIndex, Hugging Face Transformers, OpenAI or Anthropic APIs
• Data stores: Postgres, DynamoDB, Redis, and vector databases such as Pinecone, Weaviate, FAISS
• Observability: distributed tracing, metrics dashboards, cost monitoring for token‑based services
• Security & Responsible AI: PII redaction, content‑safety filters, bias evaluation
• Bonus: proficiency in Go, experience with multimodal or edge inference, contributions to GenAI open‑source projects

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.

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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.