Data Engineer

The role

You will build a data platform to understand the cost, utilization, and economics of PlayStation's global infrastructure. This involves building scalable data pipelines, developing cost models, and creating analytical tools for engineering, product, and finance teams.

What you will do

• Build scalable data pipelines that ingest, transform, and combine data.
• Develop cost and allocation models connecting infrastructure consumption to products.
• Partner with engineering teams to identify telemetry and instrumentation needs.
• Analyze infrastructure cost, utilization, capacity, and unit economics.
• Create metrics, datasets, dashboards, and analytical tools.
• Establish practices for data quality, testing, observability, documentation, and reproducibility.
• Explore new data sources and technologies to improve infrastructure understanding.

Required qualifications

• 3+ years in a similar role focused on building production data pipelines, data models, and analytical systems.
• Advanced SQL skills.
• Proficiency with Python or similar data-oriented programming languages.
• Experience with modern data platforms and tooling such as Snowflake, Databricks, dbt, and automated ETL/ELT pipelines.
• Strong analytical skills.
• Experience working with large, complex datasets across multiple systems and levels of granularity.
• Ability to translate ambiguous business and technical problems into measurable requirements and scalable data solutions.
• Experience and flexibility with current analytics and visualization tools.
• Familiarity with teams and engineering systems that utilize both on-prem and cloud infrastructure.
• Strong communication skills to work across global engineering, product, Finance, and business teams.

Nice to have

• Bachelor’s degree in computer science
• Experience with AWS, Google Cloud, or Azure billing and usage data.
• Experience with Kubernetes telemetry, networking, or data center operational data.
• Familiarity with infrastructure cost allocation, unit economics, capacity planning, forecasting, or FinOps.
• Experience connecting technical infrastructure consumption to product or business metrics.

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 and a subsidiary of Sony Group Corporation. It is a dynamic technology company and entertainment leader.