Staff Software Engineer, Data Governance & Trust

The role

You will shape and deliver the technical foundation for Data Governance and Trust across the data and AI ecosystem. You will establish technical direction, lead initiatives across teams, and remain hands-on in architecture and implementation.

What you will do

• Shape the architecture and technical roadmap for Data Governance and Trust.
• Lead initiatives from discovery through design, implementation, and operation.
• Design and build services, integrations, APIs, and automation for the data ecosystem.
• Establish reusable engineering patterns for data publishing, discovery, and access.
• Serve as a technical spokesperson in architecture discussions and leadership reviews.
• Facilitate discussions among stakeholders and guide decisions toward clear outcomes.
• Partner with governance, security, and privacy stakeholders to translate requirements into controls.
• Develop ways to make business meaning and quality status available to applications and AI.
• Mentor engineers in system design, technical judgment, and leadership.
• Raise engineering standards for reliability, maintainability, testing, and observability.

Required qualifications

• Track record of designing, building, and operating production software or data platforms.
• Deep knowledge of metadata management, data governance, lineage, data quality, privacy engineering, or access controls.
• Hands-on expertise building or extending metadata and catalog platforms such as Atlan, Alation, DataHub, OpenMetadata, or comparable systems.
• Practical understanding of federated ownership models, data stewardship, semantic models, business glossaries, or certified metrics.
• Ability to work across warehouse, lakehouse, streaming, and data transformation environments.
• Demonstrated delivery of data contracts, automated lineage, quality checks, or policy as code.
• Sound judgment in translating ambiguous business or policy requirements into technical designs.
• Proven ability to lead initiatives across teams without direct reporting authority.
• Skill in leading difficult technical or organizational conversations.
• Strong written and verbal communication.
• Collaborative approach grounded in listening and shared accountability.
• Commitment to mentoring engineers.

Nice to have

• Proficiency in a language such as Python, Java, or Go, and practical SQL experience.
• Experience with distributed systems, APIs, integrations, and cloud data infrastructure.
• Experience implementing controls that generate operational evidence.
• Delivering governed data or context services for analytics, applications, machine learning, or AI agents.
• Leading platform adoption, modernization, or migration across organizational boundaries.
• Representing technical work through internal forums, technical writing, or external presentations.

Benefits

• Medical
• Dental
• Vision
• Matching 401(k)
• Paid time off
• Wellness program
• Employee discounts for Sony products
• Bonus package

Before you apply

• Sony Interactive Entertainment conducts background checks at the offer stage.

About the company

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