<div class="content-intro"><p><strong>Why Sony Interactive Entertainment?</strong></p> <p>Sony Interactive Entertainment isn’t just the Best Place to Play — it’s also the Best Place to Work. Sony Interactive Entertainment (SIE) is the company behind the PlayStation brand. As a subsidiary of Sony Group Corporation, we’re part of a proud legacy of innovation and excellence. SIE is a dynamic technology company, delivering cutting-edge hardware and network services to more than 100 million people and an entertainment leader, home to some of the most beloved and recognizable intellectual properties (IP) in the world. Our role at SIE is to create and nurture the experiences under the PlayStation brand, a name synonymous with entertainment excellence and creativity.</p></div><h1><span style="color: #000000;"><strong>Senior Software Engineer, Backend</strong></span></h1> <h3><span style="color: #000000;"><strong>Waterloo, ON</strong></span></h3> <p> </p> <p><span style="color: #000000;"><strong>Build what’s next for players.</strong></span></p> <p><span style="color: #000000;">We’re a startup inside Sony PlayStation: fast-moving, experimental, and highly ambitious, while backed by the scale, resources, and trust of Sony Interactive Entertainment.</span></p> <p><span style="color: #000000;">We’re building new mobile and web experiences that help gamers connect, discover, and play together in better ways. This is a rare opportunity to build at startup speed and deliver significant impact inside one of the largest gaming companies in the world.</span></p> <p><span style="color: #000000;">We are seeking a Senior Backend Software Engineer to help define the architecture, services, data models, and technical standards that power our new consumer experiences.</span></p> <p> </p> <p><span style="color: #000000;"><strong>Responsibilities</strong></span></p> <ul> <li style="color: #000000 !important;"><span style="color: #000000;">Define and evolve the backend architecture for highly available, scalable consumer applications across mobile and web.</span></li> <li style="color: #000000 !important;"><span style="color: #000000;">Design, build, test, deploy, and operate reliable backend services and APIs.</span></li> <li style="color: #000000 !important;"><span style="color: #000000;">Design data models and storage strategies across relational, non-relational, caching, and event-driven systems.</span></li> <li style="color: #000000 !important;"><span style="color: #000000;">Make thoughtful architectural decisions related to scalability, consistency, availability, latency, security, and cost.</span></li> <li style="color: #000000 !important;"><span style="color: #000000;">Drive performance optimization, service reliability, observability, monitoring, and incident response best practices.</span></li> <li style="color: #000000 !important;"><span style="color: #000000;">Establish coding standards, testing strategies, deployment patterns, and development practices that raise the quality bar for backend engineering.</span></li> <li style="color: #000000 !important;"><span style="color: #000000;">Partner with product managers, designers, and client engineers to translate product requirements into maintainable technical solutions.</span></li> <li style="color: #000000 !important;"><span style="color: #000000;">Mentor engineers and act as a multiplier for backend development expertise across the broader team. </span></li> <li style="color: #000000 !important;"><span style="color: #000000;">Collaborate with security, privacy, and platform teams to ensure systems meet appropriate data protection and compliance requirements.<br> </span></li> </ul> <p><span style="color: #000000;"> <strong>Requirements</strong></span></p> <ul> <li style="color: #000000 !important;"><span style="color: #000000;">5+ years of professional software development experience building and operating backend services in production.</span></li> <li style="color: #000000 !important;"><span style="color: #000000;">BS/MS degree in Computer Science, Software Engineering, or equivalent practical experience.</span></li> <li style="color: #000000 !important;"><span style="color: #000000;">Proficiency in server-side development (Node.js with TypeScript preferred).</span></li> <li style="color: #000000 !important;"><span style="color: #000000;">Experience with relational and non-relational databases, including data modelling, indexing, transactions, and performance optimization (PostgreSQL preferred).</span></li> <li style="color: #000000 !important;"><span style="color: #000000;">Demonstrated ability to design and build GraphQL and REST APIs.</span></li> <li style="color: #000000 !important;"><span style="color: #000000;">Familiarity with caching, message queues, event streams, and asynchronous processing systems.</span></li> <li style="color: #000000 !important;"><span style="color: #000000;">Solid understanding of cloud infrastructure, containerized services, CI/CD pipelines, and infrastructure as code (IaC).</span></li> <li style="color: #000000 !important;"><span style="color: #000000;">Hands-on experience building and operating production systems on AWS, including compute, storage, networking, data