Staff Software Engineer, Data Governance & Trust

Location: San Mateo, California, United States

Salary: $216,200–$324,400 USD base pay range; the role may also be eligible for a bonus package.

Company

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

What you will do

• Set the architecture and technical roadmap for Data Governance and Trust across the data and AI ecosystem.
• Design and build services, integrations, APIs, and automation connecting metadata, ownership, classification, lineage, quality, and policy information.
• Lead initiatives from discovery and ambiguous requirements through implementation, adoption, and ongoing operation.
• Translate governance, security, privacy, and domain requirements into implementable controls, data contracts, quality expectations, and traceable evidence.
• Prepare governed access to business meaning, provenance, quality status, and permitted-use information for applications and AI systems.
• Mentor engineers and raise standards for reliability, testing, observability, maintainability, documentation, and technical leadership.

Requirements

• Track record of designing, building, and operating production software or data platforms with impact across multiple teams.
• Deep practical knowledge of metadata management, data governance, lineage, data quality, privacy engineering, access controls, or related platform domains.
• Hands-on experience building or extending metadata and catalog platforms such as Atlan, Alation, DataHub, OpenMetadata, or comparable systems.
• Understanding of federated ownership models, data stewardship, semantic models, business glossaries, or certified metrics.
• Ability to work across warehouse, lakehouse, streaming, and data transformation environments.
• Experience delivering data contracts, automated lineage, quality checks, or policy as code.
• Ability to translate ambiguous business or policy requirements into clear technical designs and delivered outcomes.
• Experience leading initiatives across teams without direct reporting authority, resolving competing priorities, and securing decisions and commitments.
• Strong written and verbal communication, including architecture proposals, decision documents, and presentations for different audiences; collaborative approach and commitment to mentoring engineers.

Nice to have

• Strong software engineering skills with Python, Java, or Go, plus practical SQL experience.
• Experience with distributed systems, APIs, integrations, cloud data infrastructure, reliability, consistency, security, and failure handling.
• Experience implementing controls that generate operational evidence.
• Experience delivering governed data or context services for analytics, applications, machine learning, or AI agents.
• Experience leading platform adoption, modernization, or migration across organizational boundaries.
• Experience representing technical work through internal forums, technical writing, communities of practice, or external presentations.

Culture & Benefits

• Individual contributor leadership role with impact across teams and responsibility for technical direction, alignment, and adoption.
• Hybrid working policy applies to the role.
• Benefits include medical, dental, and vision coverage, matching 401(k), paid time off, wellness program, and Sony product discounts.
• Background checks are conducted at the offer stage for new employees.
• Sony is an equal opportunity and Fair Chance employer committed to an inclusive environment.