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Senior Data Platform Engineer
Sony Interactive Entertainment America, LLC
Location: San Diego Studio/Remote
Are you an expert in all things data? Are you a fan of baseball and MLB The Show? Would you enjoy supporting the development efforts of games used by passionate loyalists around the world? Does a career opportunity influencing the most successful gaming platform of all time interest you?
The San Diego Studio analytics team is looking for a highly motivated, hands-on Senior Data Platform Engineer to own and evolve our data infrastructure on AWS and Databricks. You’ll lead cloud-driven Databricks configurations, reliability and cost optimization (FinOps), and jump in on ETL development. This role is ideal for an engineer who enjoys wearing multiple hats across DevOps, platform engineering, and data engineering. If this is you, you need to come and play with us here at Sony PlayStation!
Responsibilities:
AWS and Databricks administration
Configure and manage core AWS services
Work with Data Scientists to manage Databricks environment in conjunction with Data Engineering AWS environment
Implement security best practices, network segmentation, and secrets management
Own relationships with external vendors
ETL/Data Engineering
Support development and maintenance of data pipelines (Python/Spark/SQL/API Gateway/EC2/DynamoDB/Glue), data quality checks, and documentation.
Contribute to code reviews and standards.
Own Infrastructure as Code
Design, build, and maintain IaC with Terraform for AWS and Databricks (modules, workspaces, remote state, CI/CD).
Standardize and templatize environment provisioning across dev/prod
FinOps and cost governance
Establish tagging, budgets, and chargeback/showback; rightsized compute, storage, and job configurations
Manage Savings Plans/Reserved Instances, Spot strategies, storage lifecycle policies.
Studio Collaboration
Work closely with data engineers, data scientists, and stakeholders to unblock deliverables
Work with internal teams to help them realize optimizations and cost savings
Document designs, standards, and operational practices to enable a small team to move quickly and safely
Qualifications:
3+ years in data/platform/DevOps engineering with significant AWS experience
Proficient in Python and SQL
Proficient in AWS Budget and Cost Management, AWS Trusted Advisor, CloudWatch & CloudTrail
CI/CD for infra and data (GitHub Actions/Jenkins), code reviews, testing, and change management
Security-first mindset: IAM/RBAC, least privilege, network controls, encryption, secrets
FinOps knowledge: RI/Savings Plans, rightsizing, storage lifecycle, cost allocation/tagging, monitoring/alerts
Excellent communication and ability to operate in a small, high-impact team
Pluses:
Experience with AWS ETL products: Glue, Kinesis, Lambda, etc.
Terraform experience
Understand the rules of the sport of baseball
· Passion for video games
This role can be fully remote, hybrid or fully in-person in San Diego, CA.
Equal Opportunity Statement:
Sony is an Equal Opportunity Employer. All persons will receive consideration for employment without regard to gender (including gender identity, gender expression and gender reassignment), race (including colour, nationality, ethnic or national origin), religion or belief, marital or civil partnership status, disability, age, sexual orientation, pregnancy, maternity or parental status, trade union membership or membership in any other legally protected category.
We strive to create an inclusive environment, empower employees and embrace diversity. We encourage everyone to respond.
PlayStation is a Fair Chance employer and qualified applicants with arrest and conviction records will be considered for employment.
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