Software Engineer II, Data Platform

Location: Hybrid work in San Diego or San Mateo, United States

Salary: $150,100–$225,100 USD per year, with potential bonus eligibility

Company

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

What you will do

• Develop, test, deploy, document, and maintain scalable data platform code.
• Support data cataloging, analytics, and ETL/ELT pipelines.
• Build services handling structured, semi-structured, and unstructured audio, video, text, and image data.
• Identify performance bottlenecks and improve platform capabilities, scalability, and high availability.
• Apply testing, monitoring, observability, and deployment best practices.
• Participate in production on-call rotations, troubleshoot critical issues, and present work in team demos.

Requirements

• Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science.
• 3+ years of experience developing scalable, distributed systems.
• Proficiency in at least one of Scala, Java, or Python.
• Experience with cloud-based applications or services, preferably AWS; GCP is a plus.
• Exposure to Kafka, Kinesis, or SQS, data ingestion, and distributed processing frameworks such as Apache Spark or Apache Flink.
• Understanding of CI/CD, monitoring, observability, and willingness to participate in production on-call rotations.

Nice to have

• Experience with Databricks or similar unified data platforms.
• Experience with unstructured data, data cataloging, lineage, metadata tools, or data quality checks.
• Knowledge of GCP or multi-cloud environments.
• Experience supporting platform-scale ETL frameworks or analytics services.

Culture & Benefits

• Collaboration with globally distributed engineering and product teams across multiple time zones.
• Agile environment with opportunities to contribute to technical and architectural goals.
• Medical, dental, and vision coverage.
• Matching 401(k), paid time off, wellness program, and Sony product discounts.
• Structured 30-, 60-, and 90-day onboarding milestones leading to ownership of medium-scope features.

Hiring process

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