Software Engineer II

Software Engineer II

San Diego, CA

Our Team:

The Commerce, Account, & Partner Engineering (CAPE) Technical Operations team is dedicated to maintaining an always-available platform while enabling seamless delivery of delightful experiences for PlayStation players, partners, and operators. As a horizontal organization, we provide operations and tooling support for backend services across account management, authentication, commerce, and third-party partner integrations on the PlayStation Network.

Within CAPE TechOps, the Notifications team is responsible for developing and maintaining backend services that power transactional notifications — including email, SMS, mobile app, and console messages. We build scalable, high-performance, and secure systems that support both customer-facing interactions and internal stakeholders. Our tools and services help ensure the effective operation, security, and reliability of the broader PlayStation Network ecosystem.

We are seeking a Software Engineer II to join our team of innovative engineers focused on services, internal tools, and service sustainability. In this role, you will design and implement interactive web-based services, contribute to the development and maintenance of Java code, and support core components that power the PlayStation Network.

Responsibilities:

• Participate as a member of the development team.
• Perform in-depth analysis of functional or business requirements.
• Participate in code review.
• Prepare and execute unit tests.
• Apply advanced technical knowledge to maintain a technology area (e.g. Java).
• May perform solution design.
• Implement end user or enterprise infrastructure or services prepared by more senior technologist.
• Perform work assigned by others.
• Provide time / resource estimates for assigned tasks.
• Sustain services with technologies upgrades (e.g. Terraform, Kubernetes, Tomcat, Java, CICD)

Required Qualifications:

• BS degree in computer science or equivalent
• 3+ years of experience with Java
• Experience with Reactive programming
• Development experience using Java, XML/XSL, JSON
• Experience developing applications on Unix/Linux platforms
• Experience with servlet containers (e.g., Tomcat), JAXRS, Spring, and related technologies
• Experience with agile development methodologies and test-driven development processes preferred
• Experience using source control (esp. Git) and bug tracking systems in a team environment
• Experience in object-oriented analysis and design
• Experience developing web services using JSON and XML.
• Experience building software solutions on AWS cloud and utilizing AWS products and services (e.g., EKS, ALB, AWS Kinesis, DynamoDB)
• Operational experience troubleshooting services and platforms, including issues with observability, performance, availability, reliability, and scalability.

Nice to have:

• Python 3 and at least one of the Python web frameworks such as Django, Bottle or Flask
• Fundamental knowledge or experience of AI/ML (e.g., supervised, unsupervised, and reinforcement learning, techniques for cleaning and preparing data for analysis, machine learning models evaluation, neural networks, TensorFlow, PyTorch)

Desired Attributes:

• Enjoys working in a fast-paced environment 
• Possess the drive and passion for quality and taking ownership for operational issues and customer feedback.
• Accountability 
• Must possess outstanding verbal and written communication skills and be able to work with others at all levels, effective at working with geographically remote and culturally diverse teams.

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