Staff Software Engineer – Data (AI)

Location: United States, Remote

Base salary: $198,200–$297,400 USD per year

Company

hirify.global is the entertainment and gaming brand of Sony Interactive Entertainment, delivering hardware, network services, and interactive experiences to more than 100 million people.

What you will do

• Design, build, and operate large-scale distributed data systems for real-time and near-real-time analytics.
• Lead the architecture and evolution of the Real-Time Analytics Platform, improving scalability, reliability, performance, and developer productivity.
• Build and optimize streaming and analytics services using Apache Flink, Spark Structured Streaming, ClickHouse, Apache Druid, AWS MSK, and Apache Kafka.
• Integrate batch and streaming workloads through modern lakehouse architectures and interoperable data platforms.
• Develop AI-powered capabilities that automate engineering workflows, improve data quality, and simplify platform operations.
• Own production operations, incident response, technical standards, architecture decisions, and mentoring across engineering teams.

Requirements

• Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Engineering, or a related technical field, or equivalent practical experience.
• 8+ years of experience designing and building large-scale distributed systems, with expertise in real-time data processing, analytics, or data platforms.
• Strong Python experience building production-grade distributed systems and data processing applications.
• Hands-on experience with Apache Flink, Spark Structured Streaming, or equivalent streaming technologies.
• Production experience with ClickHouse, Apache Druid, or equivalent high-performance OLAP and analytics databases.
• Experience with event-driven data pipelines, systems design, AI/ML techniques, technical leadership, architecture ownership, and mentoring.

Nice to have

• Experience with Scala, Databricks, Apache Iceberg, and modern lakehouse architectures.
• Experience building multi-tenant, self-service data platforms.
• Experience collaborating with globally distributed engineering teams across multiple time zones.

Culture & Benefits

• Collaboration with Engineering, Product, Infrastructure, Security, and Data Engineering teams.
• Medical, dental, and vision coverage.
• Matching 401(k), paid time off, and wellness program.
• Employee discounts for Sony products and potential bonus eligibility.
• Production support and on-call participation are part of the role.

Hiring process

• Background checks are conducted at the offer stage and may include criminal background checks for some roles.