Staff Software Engineer

About Sony Interactive Entertainment

About the Role

Responsibilities

• Define technical direction for the experiences SDK and translate the adaptive-experiences vision into production-ready architecture.
• Lead modernization of the PS5 Store experience runtime and migration from legacy rendering paths.
• Design the composition layer, TypeScript APIs, schemas, content adapters, component model, data bindings, and renderer contracts.
• Build reusable experience primitives supporting responsive layouts, personalization, experimentation, telemetry, accessibility, and localization.
• Establish compatibility, validation, feature flags, fallbacks, rollback, and observability patterns.
• Optimize bundle size, startup performance, time to interactive, memory usage, rendering, and runtime reliability.
• Improve developer experience with integrations, test harnesses, preview tools, debugging tools, compatibility testing, and documentation.
• Partner across client, design, merchandising, content, personalization, experimentation, and platform teams.
• Provide technical leadership, mentor engineers, make trade-offs, and communicate architecture and decisions.

Required Qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Software Engineering, or a related field, or equivalent practical experience.
• At least eight years of professional software engineering experience, including production client platforms, SDKs, frameworks, or shared libraries.
• Expert proficiency with TypeScript or JavaScript and strong experience with React, React Native, or a comparable component-based framework.
• Strong software architecture and API design skills, including versioning, backward compatibility, and incremental migration.
• Experience building data-driven or server-driven user interfaces, reusable component systems, or runtime composition frameworks.
• Experience improving client performance and reliability through profiling, telemetry, automated testing, and observability.
• Experience designing for multiple client environments and understanding platform-specific constraints.
• Ability to solve ambiguous cross-functional problems, drive alignment, and communicate complex technical decisions clearly.

Preferred Qualifications

• Experience with console development, living-room interfaces, focus-based navigation, or constrained native clients.
• Experience with declarative UI, JSON Schema, component expansion, data binding, hydration, or rendering engines.
• Experience with SDKs, content or merchandising systems, personalization, experimentation, or design systems.
• Experience migrating large client applications using staged rollout and compatibility layers.
• Experience developing platform adapters or renderers for iOS, Android, web, or native environments.
• Experience with developer tooling, visual previews, contract testing, schema validation, or cross-platform regression testing.
• Experience applying generative AI or agentic workflows to software or content creation.
• Technical leadership and mentoring experience across multiple teams.

Additional Skills

• Self-directed approach combining long-term architectural thinking with pragmatic incremental delivery.
• Customer focus and attention to developer experience, operational usability, and measurable product outcomes.
• Comfort working collaboratively with product, design, engineering, and operations partners.

Compensation

• The estimated base pay range is $188,200 to $282,200 CAD.
• The role may also be eligible for a bonus package and SIE’s benefits package.

Workplace Policy

• Base pay may vary in line with Sony Interactive Entertainment’s hybrid working policy and individual job-related factors.