Real-Time Data Engineer - Cloud Streaming

PlayStation; Aliso Viejo (CA); On-site; USD 150,000 - 225,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Medical, dental, vision insurance

401(k) matching

Paid time off

Wellness program

Employee discounts on Sony products

Job summary

Sony Interactive Entertainment in Aliso Viejo, CA is seeking a Data Engineer II to design and maintain a scalable data platform for PlayStation's cloud streaming services. You will develop JVM-based data processing applications, build Flink jobs, and collaborate with BI teams to transform data into insights that drive business decisions.

Ideal candidates have 3+ years of backend engineering experience, strong knowledge of Kafka, Flink, Spark, and SQL, plus proficiency in Kotlin/Scala/Java and

Qualifications

• Bachelor’s or Master’s degree in Computer Science or a related field or equivalent practical experience.
• 3+ years of software development and backend engineering experience with high throughput and fault tolerance.
• Proficiency in JVM languages (Kotlin/Scala/Java) and Python.
• Experience with Kafka, Flink, Spark, and SQL.
• Knowledge of functional and object oriented programming, and TDD.
• Experience with REST, JSON, gRPC, and WebSockets.
• Experience with ETL, stream processing, real-time pipelines, and batch processing.
• Familiarity with Git and CI/CD.
• Strong problem solving and communication skills; able to work with remote teams.
• Experience with AWS (OpenSearch, MSK, EKS) is a plus; Kubernetes and Docker 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 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

Kotlin/Scala/Java

Python

REST/JSON/gRPC/WebSockets

Distributed systems

Git/CI-CD

Education

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

Tools

Apache Kafka

Flink

Spark

SQL

OpenSearch

MSK

EKS

Kubernetes

Docker

Job description

Sony Interactive Entertainment in Aliso Viejo, CA is seeking a Data Engineer II to design and maintain a scalable data platform for PlayStation's cloud streaming services. You will develop JVM-based data processing applications, build Flink jobs, and collaborate with BI teams to transform data into insights that drive business decisions.

Ideal candidates have 3+ years of backend engineering experience, strong knowledge of Kafka, Flink, Spark, and SQL, plus proficiency in Kotlin/Scala/Java and