Sony Principal Platform Architect United States, California, San Diego 903036366
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You will be responsible for setting the architectural vision, ensuring technical excellence, and driving platform-wide standards across distributed systems, APIs, identity, personalization, and developer enablement services. Partnering closely with engineering leadership, product management, and cross-functional stakeholders, you will lead the design and evolution of scalable, secure, and extensible platform services that power seamless user experiences and cross-business integrations.
JOB RESPONSIBILITIES
- Define and evolve the architectural vision for the Sony Engagement Platform, ensuring it is scalable, secure, resilient, and aligned with long-term business and technical goals.
- Design and lead the development of core platform services , including APIs, microservices, identity, personalization, and data pipelines, enabling seamless integration across Sony’s global business units.
- Drive architectural consistency and technical excellence , establishing best practices for system design, software development, performance optimization, and observability.
- Collaborate with cross-functional leaders in engineering, product, security, and operations to translate complex requirements into pragmatic, high-impact architectural solutions.
- Evaluate and guide technology decisions , performing trade-off analyses and leading the adoption of emerging tools, frameworks, and patterns as appropriate.
- Mentor and influence engineering teams , elevating engineering quality by guiding design reviews, fostering architectural thinking, and advocating for platform-first principles.
- Champion platform scalability and efficiency , ensuring the platform can support rapid growth and a wide variety of use cases across Sony’s entertainment ecosystem.
- Document and communicate architecture standards and decisions , providing clear guidance to both technical and non-technical stakeholders.
- Act as a technical thought leader , representing the platform architecture in strategic planning sessions and helping to shape the overall direction of digital engagement at Sony.
- Defines the technical vision, architectural foundation, and engineering standards for a modern, scalable identity platform.
- Honesty, trustworthiness and ethical conduct are material requirements for the responsibilities outlined above
Your qualifications and experience should include:
- BS Degree in Engineering, Computer Science or equivalent experience.
- 10+ years’ experience in software development, architecture, programming, design, and analysis.
- Expertise in programming languages and technologies including Java, Python, Golang, and infrastructure as code.
- Experience delivering high performance, active-active, scalable services (Enterprise Java/J2EE, Web Services, Big Data/NoSQL).
- Track record monitoring and analyzing system performance, isolating issues or bottlenecks that could impact reliability, performance, and scalability.
- Identifying and mitigating technical risks.
- Strong knowledge of SQL and NoSQL programming (Oracle, Cassandra, Amazon Aurora) including both relational database schema designs and schema-less systems.
- Hands-on experience in Amazon Web Services, at enterprise scale is required including familiarity with DynamoDB, Aurora, EC2, and other AWS services.
- Experience executing performance testing and/or development efforts for a complex, high throughput system.
- Solid understanding of the path(s) customer requests flow from web browser to back-end.
- Extensive experience with agile development methodologies and test-driven development processes required.
- Experience with open source technology stacks and scripting technologies required.
- Ability to handle periodic on-call duty as well as out-of-band requests.
- Possess the drive and passion for quality with the ability to inspire, excite and motivate other team members.
- Possess outstanding verbal and written communication skills and be able to work with others at all levels, effective at working with geographically remote and culturally diverse teams.
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What we offer you:
Comprehensive medical, prescription drug, dental, and vision coveragewith coverage for spouses/domestic partners and child dependents, including access to a Health Savings Account (HSA) and Flexible Spending Account (FSA)
Employee assistanceplanand comprehensive behavioral health benefits
Fertility benefits, including surrogacy,and adoptionassistanceprograms
Basic and supplemental life insurance for employees as well as supplemental life insurance coverage for their spouses/domestic partners and children
Voluntary benefits such as group legal, identity theft protection, accident, and hospital indemnity insurance
Short-term & long-term disability plans
Paid parental and caregiver leave
401(k) Plan with pre-tax, Roth, and after-tax options andcompany matchwith immediate vesting
Education assistanceand student loan programs
Other Programs:
Flexible Work Arrangements, including remote and hybrid work schedules
Time off to include vacation, paid holidays, sick leave, Summer Fridays (early release),and a winter break between Christmas and New Year’s Day (based on business needs)
Referral bonuses (subject to eligibility)
Matching gift program
A wide variety of employee business resource groups (EBRGs)
Special discounts on Sony products, offered exclusively to Sony employees
Employee stock purchase plan (Sony covers commissions and fees for your Sony stock purchases made through after-tax payroll deductions)
Annual incentive bonus
SCA will consider qualified applicants with arrest or conviction records in accordance with applicable law
All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to any basis protected by applicable federal, state, or local law, ordinance, or regulation.
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