Senior Online Engineer at Sony Interactive Entertainment PlayStion (San Diego, CA)

PlayStation isnt just the Best Place to Play its also the Best Place to Work. Weve thrilled gamers since 1994, when we launched the original PlayStation. Today, were recognized as a global leader in interactive and digital entertainment. The PlayStation brand falls under Sony Interactive Entertainment, a wholly-owned subsidiary of Sony Corporation.
Senior Online Engineer
Sony Interactive Entertainment America, LLC
Located at Playstation San Diego Studio
Are you passionate about bleeding edge technology? Do you enjoy supporting the development efforts of software used by 10s of millions of passionate technology loyalists around the world? Do you want your work to influence the most successful gaming platform of all time? Do you want a career opportunity that combines both your passion and skills as a software engineer? Then you need to come and play with us here at Sony PlayStation!
We have an exciting opportunity to join our San Diego Development Studios team here at Sony Computer Entertainment of America, PlayStation! We seek a Senior Online Developer highly proficient with open source technologies to develop and optimize game titles for the PS4.
Responsibilities

• Work with game teams to design and iteratively develop features and enhancements.

• Maintain infrastructure, features, and code within our core technology stacks.

• Tune and troubleshoot application and database. Profile Java, Ruby, MySQL, Redis, Solr, ActiveMQ and other pieces of application infrastructure to identify and resolve performance issues.

• Tune and troubleshoot MySQL. Profile MySQL queries, and modify queries/indexes as needed to remove bottlenecks. Make recommendations for database and/or application design changes to improve performance.

• Responsible for maintaining and developing code as infrastructure for hosting our technology stack on AWS.

• Work as an integral member of the team. Communicate with team members to design and support leading-edge applications. Over time, contribute to future architecture decisions for our application.

Required

• 6 years experience developing professional Java web-based applications.

• 4 years experience with MySQL. Ability to benchmark and tune MySQL queries. Understanding of indexes, InnoDB plugin, and backups.

• Experience with Agile and Behavior-Driven Development. Ability to react quickly to changes and deliver features in incremental steps.

• Experience building large scale, high traffic web applications. Including benchmarking, load testing, and performance tuning application.

• Experience with web/server development and object-oriented programming languages.

• Strong communication skills (reading, writing, presentation, and speaking)

• Effectively communicate technical information to both technical and non-technical groups. Ability to gather requirements and support end-users.

• Understanding of HTTP/S, TCP, XML, JSON, REST, HTML, GIT and networking and related troubleshooting skills.

• Systems-level knowledge of Linux, including administration concepts. Ubuntu, CentOS or RedHat knowledge a plus.

• BSCS degree preferred, or equivalent professional experience and certifications.

• Experience working with AWS is a plus.

• Experience programming in Ruby is a plus.

Sony is an Equal Opportunity Employer. All persons will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, gender, pregnancy, national origin, ancestry, citizenship, age, legally protected physical or mental disability, covered veteran status, status in the U.S. uniformed services, sexual orientation, gender identity, marital status, genetic information or membership in any other legally protected category.
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