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Sr. Machine Learning Software Engineer - D2C - SPOC
Sony Interactive Entertainment (SIE) PlayStation | San Diego, CA

Who We Are
At Sony Interactive Entertainment (SIE) PlayStation, we create unforgettable gaming experiencesand were equally dedicated to building a world-class team. As a leader in interactive entertainment, PlayStation operates at massive scale, supporting millions of players worldwide and processing billions of transactions annually across our digital ecosystem.

OurStore Publishing Operations & Commerce (SPOC) team is responsible for ensuring trust, security, and seamless transactions across PlayStations digital store. We provide data-driven solutions to support platform services, customer experience, payments, fraud prevention, and risk management. Using advanced analytics and machine learning/AI, we help protect the commerce ecosystem, facilitate business growth, and optimize player experiences.

About the Role
This position is a hands-on engineering role with a broad range of responsibilities, from evolving and supporting machine learning/AI pipelines to building low-latency, high-throughput systems. You should be well-versed in running applications at internet scale on modern cloud architectures (e.g., AWS) using containerized and serverless workflows. If youre passionate about large-scale machine learning projects, experimentation, automation, or real-time risk mitigation, wed love to connect with you.

Key Responsibilities

Create Cloud Solutions : Design and implement cloud solutions using AWS to ensure high performance, scalability, and reliability.

Core Infrastructure Development : Develop and maintain core infrastructure for data streaming and processing, applying industry standards and innovative solutions.

ML/AI Pipeline Enhancement : Build and enhance ML/AI pipelines supporting automation, experimentation, continuous integration/delivery, verification/validation, and model monitoring.

Automated Deployment : Ensure all work is deployed in an automated, repeatable fashion, optimizing infrastructure for cost and efficiency.

Service Availability : Guarantee high levels of service availability through being a part of an on-call rotation, following best practices for disaster recovery and business continuity.

Qualifications and Education Requirements

Educational Background : Bachelors degree with 5+ years of related experience

Coding Proficiency : Demonstrated experience with Java and Python

AWS Services Competency : Proficiency with common AWS services (EKS/ECS, Kinesis, Lambda, DynamoDB, SNS, SQS)

Systems Monitoring and Analytics : Experience with systems monitoring, alerting, and analytics tools like Datadog, Splunk, New Relic, or AWS CloudTrail

• Communication Skills : Strong communication skills to collaborate with multi-functional teams

Container Orchestration : Experience with container orchestration and management (e.g., Kubernetes)

Data Science & Machine Learning : Basic knowledge of Data Science, Machine Learning, and Large Language Models (LLMs)

Preferred Skills

AWS Certification

Stream Processing Expertise : Experience with streams at internet scale (e.g., Kinesis, Kafka, ActiveMQ)

• Linux Knowledge : General knowledge of Linux

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$172,100 - $258,100 USD

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