Data Engineer II — Real-Time Cloud Data for Gaming

Sony Interactive Entertainment Inc. (Japan); Aliso Viejo (CA); On-site; USD 150,000 - 225,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Medical, dental, vision

401(k) matching

Paid time off

Employee discounts

Job summary

Sony Interactive Entertainment in Aliso Viejo, CA is hiring a Data Engineer II to design and maintain scalable data platforms for the PlayStation Cloud Streaming ecosystem. You will build JVM-based services in Kotlin/Scala/Java, implement Flink jobs, and deliver real-time insights in collaboration with BI teams.

You should have 3+ years of backend experience, strong knowledge of Kafka, Flink, Spark, SQL, and modern data processing patterns.

Qualifications

• Bachelor’s or Master’s degree in CS or related field.
• 3+ years building high-throughput backend systems with high availability.
• Proficiency in JVM languages (Kotlin, Scala, Java) and Python.
• Experience with Kafka, Flink, Spark, and SQL.
• Knowledge of REST/JSON/gRPC/WebSockets.
• Familiar with functional programming, OOP, and TDD.
• Experience with ETL, stream processing, and real-time pipelines.
• Experience with Git and CI/CD; strong debugging and performance tuning.
• Familiar with AWS (OpenSearch, MSK, EKS) and containerized deployments.
• Excellent communication and collaboration across time zones.

Responsibilities

• Design and implement middleware and backend systems for high throughput.
• Develop stream processing jobs using Flink and scalable ETL jobs.
• Optimize performance, reliability, and monitoring of data pipelines.
• Support migration of on-prem Kafka to cloud technologies.
• Analyze requirements and translate into data-driven solutions.
• Contribute to architectural decisions for cloud streaming data pipelines.
• Collaborate with BI and product teams to turn data into value.

Skills

3+ years of software development

JVM languages

Python

REST/JSON/gRPC/WebSockets

functional programming / OOP / TDD

ETL / stream processing / real-time /批

Education

Bachelor's or Master's in Computer Science or related field

Tools

Apache Kafka

Flink

Spark

SQL

Git

CI/CD

Docker

Kubernetes

AWS OpenSearch / MSK / EKS

Job description

Sony Interactive Entertainment in Aliso Viejo, CA is hiring a Data Engineer II to design and maintain scalable data platforms for the PlayStation Cloud Streaming ecosystem. You will build JVM-based services in Kotlin/Scala/Java, implement Flink jobs, and deliver real-time insights in collaboration with BI teams.

You should have 3+ years of backend experience, strong knowledge of Kafka, Flink, Spark, SQL, and modern data processing patterns.