Data Engineer II, Real-Time Cloud Pipelines

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

Job summary

Sony Interactive Entertainment in San Mateo, CA seeks a skilled Data Engineer II to build and maintain JVM-based data services powering PlayStation Cloud Streaming. You’ll work across teams to deliver scalable, reliable data platforms and real-time insights from large, distributed systems.

Responsibilities include designing middleware, streaming jobs with Flink, ETL processing, and collaborating with BI to enable data-driven decisions. Strong backend and cloud skills essential.

Qualifications

• Bachelor’s or Master’s degree in CS or related field or equivalent experience.
• Strong backend software development experience with high throughput systems.
• Proficiency in JVM languages (Kotlin/Scala/Java) and Python.

Responsibilities

• Design and implement middleware and backend systems for high throughput workloads.
• Develop stream processing jobs with Flink and ETL pipelines for real-time insights.
• Optimize data pipeline reliability, performance, and monitoring.
• Support migration of on-prem Kafka to cloud technologies.
• Collaborate with BI to translate product needs into actionable data.

Skills

Java/Kotlin/Scala

Python

REST/JSON/gRPC/WebSockets

Distributed systems

Stream processing

ETL pipelines

Git & CI/CD

Problem solving

Team collaboration

Education

Bachelor’s or Master’s in CS or related field

Tools

Apache Kafka

Flink

Spark

SQL

Kubernetes

Docker

Git

CI/CD

OpenSearch/MSK/EKS

Job description

Sony Interactive Entertainment in San Mateo, CA seeks a skilled Data Engineer II to build and maintain JVM-based data services powering PlayStation Cloud Streaming. You’ll work across teams to deliver scalable, reliable data platforms and real-time insights from large, distributed systems.

Responsibilities include designing middleware, streaming jobs with Flink, ETL processing, and collaborating with BI to enable data-driven decisions. Strong backend and cloud skills essential.