Product Analytics Engineer (Gaming)

TL;DR

Product Analytics Engineer (Gaming): Implementing event instrumentation and shaping measurement strategies for PlayStation products with an accent on consistent, high-quality data collection and A/B testing. Focus on validating data quality, building lightweight data pipelines, assisting with experiment analysis, and surfacing datasets for ML model evaluation.

Location: Based out of Dublin, Ireland

Company

hirify.global is a global leader in entertainment, producing the PlayStation family of products and services.

What you will do

• Implement event instrumentation across backend & frontend services to capture critical user and product signals.
• Contribute to event schemas, logging standards, and integration specs to ensure consistent, high-quality data collection.
• Align with engineers, product managers, and data scientists on KPIs, metric definitions, and experiment tracking plans.
• Validate data quality and interpretability, confirming that emitted events are analytics-ready.
• Build or refine lightweight data pipelines/transformations to convert raw events into usable datasets.
• Contribute to A/B-test instrumentation, tracking setup, and initial data validation, assisting analysis of experiment results.

Requirements

• Quantitative degree or equivalent experience in Statistics, Computer/Data Science, Mathematics, or Analytics.
• 2-3+ years in analytics-driven roles (data analytics/engineering/science or software engineering) within consumer-facing product environments.
• SQL plus coding proficiency in languages like Python, Java, or TypeScript.
• Exposure to large datasets & complex queries, with awareness of performance and reliability needs.
• Experience with event/logging pipelines (Kafka, Kinesis, Datadog, OpenTelemetry) and product-analytics platforms (Amplitude, Mixpanel, Adobe Analytics).
• Proven cross-functional collaboration with engineering, product, and data-science teams.

Nice to have

• Data-visualization expertise with tools such as Tableau or Power BI.
• Domain knowledge in personalization or e-commerce metrics.
• Hands-on experience with A/B-testing frameworks and statistical evaluation methods.
• Experience working in client-side JavaScript/TypeScript codebases using modern frameworks (e.g., React).

Culture & Benefits

• Be part of a fast-paced, collaborative environment.
• Your work will directly influence how products are built, measured, and improved.
• Act as a key bridge between engineering execution and data-driven decision-making.
• Opportunity to join a growing global team within PlayStation, striving for an inclusive and diverse environment.