Lead Data Engineer

The role

You will work in the Data Platform team to ingest and process high-volume data. You will scale the platform, define technical direction, and build services to support game analytics for PlayStation games.

What you will do

• Own parts of the pipeline and drive improvements to achieve technical and business goals
• Build supporting services for the pipeline, such as integrations with in-game maps and video tooling
• Integrate the data collection platform and BI tools to enable studio self-service
• Work closely with the Devops team, analytics engineers, and stakeholders
• Focus on improving data quality, lineage and observability
• Support existing tooling, improving quality and documentation
• Be a technical expert and share knowledge with colleagues

Required qualifications

• Experience building and owning Data Pipelines for high-throughput streaming and batch data
• Adept at writing code in Go or write Python with a willingness to learn Go
• Experienced in building robust, scalable, and resilient services
• Can demonstrate measurable impact made in current and previous roles
• Enjoys solving data problems and taking responsibility for quality, investigations and remediation
• Experience with cloud data services such as Amazon S3, Redshift, Kinesis, Data Firehose, Athena and AWS Glue

Nice to have

• Has made use of AI during the development cycle, including use of Claude Code, Codex or other harnesses
• Experience with near real-time data processing, querying and visualisation
• Experience with Omni Analytics, or a similar BI tool (Looker, Tableau etc)
• GitHub and GitHub Actions experience

About the company

Sony Interactive Entertainment (SIE) is the company behind the PlayStation brand and a subsidiary of Sony Group Corporation. PlayStation Studios is the game development division responsible for franchises including The Last of Us, Horizon, Spider-Man, God of War, Helldivers and Gran Turismo.