Data Engineer II - Real-Time Cloud Streaming

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

Benefits offered by this job

Medical benefits

Dental benefits

Vision benefits

401(k) matching

Paid time off

Wellness program

Employee discounts

Job summary

Sony Interactive Entertainment in San Diego seeks a Data Engineer II to build and operate real-time data pipelines for PlayStation Cloud Streaming. You’ll work with Kotlin/Scala/Java on JVM, Flink, and ETL jobs to deliver reliable data insights.

You’ll collaborate across time zones with BI and product teams, optimize systems for throughput and fault tolerance, and contribute to cloud migration and architecture decisions in a distributed data platform.

Qualifications

• Bachelor’s or Master’s degree in Computer Science or related field, or equivalent experience.

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 implement scalable ETL jobs that enable our partners and customers to glean intelligent insight
• Optimize performance, reliability, and monitoring of the data pipeline stack.
• Support migration efforts of our on-premises Kafka to new cloud technologies.
• Perform in-depth analysis of functional or business requirements.
• Contribute to architectural decisions for PlayStation’s cloud streaming data pipeline.
• Liaise with Business Intelligence and product domain teams to help turn data into information, and information into business value.

Skills

JVM languages (Kotlin/Scala/Java)

Python

REST/JSON/gRPC/WebSockets

TDD, FP, OOP

Distributed systems

Remote collaboration

Education

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

Tools

Apache Kafka

Flink

Spark

SQL

Git

CI/CD

OpenSearch

MSK

EKS

Kubernetes

Docker

Job description

Sony Interactive Entertainment in San Diego seeks a Data Engineer II to build and operate real-time data pipelines for PlayStation Cloud Streaming. You’ll work with Kotlin/Scala/Java on JVM, Flink, and ETL jobs to deliver reliable data insights.

You’ll collaborate across time zones with BI and product teams, optimize systems for throughput and fault tolerance, and contribute to cloud migration and architecture decisions in a distributed data platform.