Data Engineer II: Real-Time Cloud Data Pipelines

Sony Interactive Entertainment Inc.; San Mateo (CA); On-site; USD 164,000 - 246,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Medical, dental, vision

401(k) matching

Paid time off

Wellness program

Employee discounts

Bonus potential

Job summary

Sony Interactive Entertainment in San Mateo, CA seeks a Data Engineer II to build and maintain real-time data pipelines for the PlayStation Cloud Streaming platform. You will develop JVM-based services in Kotlin/Scala/Java, design Flink jobs, and collaborate with BI to turn data into business value across teams in multiple time zones.

We value self-motivation, strong communication, and experience with Kafka, Spark, and cloud deployments (AWS). Hybrid work options are available.

Qualifications

• Bachelor’s or Master’s degree in Computer Science or related field or equivalent practical experience.
• 3+ years of software development and backend engineering experience with high throughput and fault tolerance.
• Proficient in Kotlin, Scala, Java and Python.
• Experience with Kafka, Flink, Spark and SQL.
• Knowledge of REST, JSON, gRPC and WebSockets.
• Experience with ETL, stream processing, real-time pipelines and batch processing.
• Familiarity with Git and CI/CD.
• Self-motivated with strong remote collaboration skills.
• Experience with AWS at enterprise scale (OpenSearch, MSK, EKS) is a plus.
• Kubernetes, Docker and cloud deployment technologies are a plus.

Responsibilities

• Design and implement middleware and backend systems capable of handling high throughput and load.
• Develop and maintain stream processing jobs using Flink (stateful/stateless) and scalable ETL jobs.
• Optimize performance, reliability, and monitoring of the data pipeline stack; Support migration of on‑prem Kafka to cloud technologies.
• Perform in‑depth analysis of functional or business requirements.
• Contribute to architectural decisions for PlayStation’s cloud streaming data pipeline.
• Liaise with BI and product teams to turn data into information and value.

Skills

Kotlin

Scala

Java

Python

Apache Kafka

Flink

Spark

SQL

REST/JSON

gRPC

WebSockets

TDD

Git

CI/CD

AWS

Education

Bachelor’s or Master’s in CS

Tools

Kubernetes

Docker

OpenSearch

MSK

EKS

Git

Job description

Sony Interactive Entertainment in San Mateo, CA seeks a Data Engineer II to build and maintain real-time data pipelines for the PlayStation Cloud Streaming platform. You will develop JVM-based services in Kotlin/Scala/Java, design Flink jobs, and collaborate with BI to turn data into business value across teams in multiple time zones.

We value self-motivation, strong communication, and experience with Kafka, Spark, and cloud deployments (AWS). Hybrid work options are available.