Software Development Manager

The role

You will lead high-impact teams within the PlayStation SDK Developer CPU Toolchain department. The role focuses on people leadership, operational excellence, and supporting team members from graduate to staff level.

What you will do

• Lead, mentor, and help develop a team of engineers.
• Define team member development and career path opportunities.
• Work together with other groups and teams across different time zones.
• Monitor and review team members' performance and deliver regular performance appraisals.
• Manage team capacity planning, hiring, onboarding and ensure effective succession planning.
• Recognize challenges, help remove obstacles, and clarify tasks.

Required qualifications

• 3–5+ years of experience managing software development teams.
• Proven success in people management including mentorship.
• Effective leading of multiple Agile teams in software engineering domains.
• Outstanding verbal and written communication skills.
• Significant experience with software engineering practices, software automation and testing systems (for example, Jenkins).
• Enough development tools experience to provide guidance in high-level goal-setting discussions.
• A solid understanding of the software development lifecycle and driving reductions in technical debt.

Nice to have

• Solid grasp of Confluence, JIRA (or similar project management tools) and support ticket management frontends.
• Prior experience with console or PC game development.
• Development and debugging tools experience on Windows and/or Linux.
• Experience in low-level languages such as Rust and C++.
• Knowledgeable about the Clang for LLVM open-source project (or GNU GCC toolchains).

Before you apply

• Sony Interactive Entertainment conducts background checks at the offer stage for all new employees.

About the company

Sony Interactive Entertainment (SIE) is the company behind the PlayStation brand. It is a dynamic technology company and an entertainment leader.