Staff Software Engineer – Data (AI)

Location: Remote within the United States

Salary: $198,200–$297,400 USD base pay annually

Company

hirify.global creates PlayStation hardware, network services, and entertainment experiences for 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 across PlayStation.
• Lead the architecture and evolution of the Real-Time Analytics Platform, improving scalability, reliability, performance, and developer productivity.
• Build and optimize stream-processing and analytics services using Apache Flink, Spark Structured Streaming, ClickHouse, Apache Druid, and related technologies.
• Integrate batch and streaming workloads through lakehouse architectures and interoperable data platforms.
• Build AI-powered capabilities that improve data quality, automate engineering workflows, simplify platform operations, and accelerate troubleshooting.
• Provide technical leadership through architecture ownership, mentoring, incident response, production support, and cross-functional strategy.

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, including real-time data processing, analytics, or data platform engineering.
• Strong Python experience building production-grade distributed systems and data-processing applications; Scala experience supports existing platform components.
• Hands-on experience with Apache Flink, Apache Spark Structured Streaming, or equivalent stream-processing technologies.
• Production experience with ClickHouse, Apache Druid, or equivalent OLAP and analytics databases, including data modeling, query optimization, and performance tuning.
• Experience with AWS MSK, Apache Kafka, or equivalent messaging platforms, plus AI/ML techniques and modern AI tooling.

Nice to have

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

Culture & Benefits

• Remote work within the United States.
• Medical, dental, and vision coverage.
• Matching 401(k), paid time off, and wellness program.
• Employee discounts on Sony products and potential bonus eligibility.
• Participation in production support and on-call rotation.

Hiring process

• Background checks are conducted at the offer stage, potentially including criminal background checks.