Principal Software Engineer

<div class="content-intro"><p><strong>Why Sony Interactive Entertainment?</strong></p> <p>Sony Interactive Entertainment isn’t just the Best Place to Play — it’s also the Best Place to Work. Sony Interactive Entertainment (SIE) is the company behind the PlayStation brand. As a subsidiary of Sony Group Corporation, we’re part of a proud legacy of innovation and excellence. SIE is a dynamic technology company, delivering cutting-edge hardware and network services to more than 100 million people and an entertainment leader, home to some of the most beloved and recognizable intellectual properties (IP) in the world. Our role at SIE is to create and nurture the experiences under the PlayStation brand, a name synonymous with entertainment excellence and creativity.</p></div><p><span style="font-size: 12pt;">The Principal Software Engineer role requires partnering across Product Management, Architects, Engineering, Hosting and Operations. Extensive hands-on technical expertise coupled with ingenuity, broad industry knowledge and excellent communication skills. Will use their understanding of technology, frameworks, and constraints to help pave the way for future innovation on our platforms.</span></p> <p><span style="font-size: 12pt;">You will contribute to the architecture of large-scale commerce systems on Sony’s PlayStation Network Platform. Your work will follow industry standard guidelines to enable highly available, active-active, extensible services.</span></p> <p><span style="font-size: 12pt;">Participates in product road-map discussions and identify key areas for improvement in the product and incorporates these goals into ongoing & future development initiatives.</span></p> <h2><span style="font-size: 12pt;"><strong>What you'll be doing:</strong></span></h2> <ul> <li style="font-size: 12pt;"><span style="font-size: 12pt;">You are passionate about making distributed systems better and have an insatiable thirst to keep learning.</span></li> <li style="font-size: 12pt;"><span style="font-size: 12pt;">You have deep expertise in system engineering and have successfully improved the performance of the software stack.</span></li> <li style="font-size: 12pt;"><span style="font-size: 12pt;">You design and develop high-quality software solutions that meet requirements. Including code, debugging, and testing.</span></li> <li style="font-size: 12pt;"><span style="font-size: 12pt;">You have implemented rigorous standard methodologies for measuring, understanding, predicting, and improving how enterprise grade systems operate (even better if they happen to be Data oriented).&a