Senior Data Platform Engineer

Why Play Station? Play Station isn’t just the Best Place to Play — it’s also the Best Place to Work. Today, we’re recognized as a global leader in entertainment producing The Play Station family of products and services including Play Station®5, Play Station®4, Play Station®VR, Play Station®Plus, acclaimed Play Station software titles from Play Station Studios, and more.

Play Station also strives to create an inclusive environment that empowers employees and embraces diversity. We welcome and encourage everyone who has a passion and curiosity for innovation, technology, and play to explore our open positions and join our growing global team.

The Play Station brand falls under Sony Interactive Entertainment, a wholly-owned subsidiary of Sony Group Corporation.

Location:

San Diego Studio/Remote

• AWS and Databricks administration:
  Configure and manage core AWS services; implement security best practices, network segmentation, and secrets management.

• ETL/Data Engineering:
  Support development and maintenance of data pipelines (Python/Spark/SQL/API Gateway/EC2/Dynamo
  
  DB/Glue); contribute to code reviews and standards.

• Own Infrastructure as Code:
  Design, build, and maintain IaC with Terraform for AWS and Databricks (modules, work spaces, remote state, CI/CD); standardize and templatize environment provisioning across dev/prod.

• Fin Ops and cost governance:
  Establish tagging, budgets, and chargeback/showback; rightsized compute, storage, and job configurations; manage Savings Plans/Reserved Instances, Spot strategies, storage lifecycle policies.

• Studio
  
  Collaboration:
  
  Work closely with data engineers, data scientists, and stakeholders to unblock deliverables; help internal teams realize optimizations and cost savings; document designs, standards, and operational practices.

• 3+ years in data/platform/Dev Ops engineering with significant AWS experience.

• Proficient in Python and SQL.

• Proficient in AWS Budget and Cost Management, AWS Trusted Advisor, Cloud Watch & Cloud Trail.

• CI/CD for infra and data (Git Hub Actions/Jenkins); code reviews, testing, and change management.

• Security-first mindset: IAM/RBAC, least privilege, network controls, encryption, secrets.

• Fin Ops knowledge: RI/Savings Plans, rightsizing, storage lifecycle, cost allocation/tagging, monitoring/alerts.

• Excellent communication and ability to operate in a small, high-impact team.

• Experience with AWS ETL products:
  Glue, Kinesis, Lambda, etc.

• Terraform experience.

• Understand the rules of the sport of baseball.

· Passion for video games

This role can be fully remote, hybrid or fully in-person in San Diego, CA.

Sony is an Equal Opportunity Employer. All persons will receive consideration for employment without regard to gender (including gender identity, gender expression and gender reassignment), race (including colour, nationality, ethnic or national origin), religion or belief, marital or civil partnership status, disability, age, sexual orientation, pregnancy, maternity or parental status, trade union membership or membership in any other legally protected category.

Play Station is a Fair Chance employer and qualified applicants with arrest and conviction records will be considered for employment.