Data Engineer Intern

Why PlayStation?

PlayStation isn’t just the Best Place to Play — it’s also the Best Place to Work. Today, we’re recognized as a global leader in entertainment producing The PlayStation family of products and services including PlayStation®5, PlayStation®4, PlayStation®VR, PlayStation®Plus, acclaimed PlayStation software titles from PlayStation Studios, and more.

PlayStation also strives to create an inclusive environment that empowers employees and embraces diversity. We welcome and encourage everyone who has a passion and curiosity for innovation, technology, and play to explore our open positions and join our growing global team.

The PlayStation brand falls under Sony Interactive Entertainment, a wholly-owned subsidiary of Sony Corporation.

At Sony Interactive Entertainment (SIE), data is a critical business asset that facilitates business operations, empowers decision making, and provides vital insights into improvement and innovation of PlayStation products and services. The Transformers focuses on building scalable data pipelines and services to curate, aggregate, and provide realtime and batch insights into various datasets (e.g. account, entitlement and commerce data) that support consumers across SIE. This includes data integrations with other Sony entities. Additionally, we enable analytics on platform Events by building Data Lake as well as real-time services that support the Customer Service organization. 

Tech Stack: Scala, Python, Spark, Lake Formation, AWS EMR, Kinesis/Firehose, Lambda, DynamoDB, Athena, S3, Github, Jenkins, DataDog 

Responsibilities

• You will be part of a team responsible for development of PlayStation Network’s Data Platform and Analytics solutions to reshape the platform so that it can easily be consumed in real-time as well as batch.

• You will play a key role in design, development, automation, and quality related solutions, working closely with teams across PlayStation.

• You will participate in product road-map discussions and identify key areas for improvement to ensure we all deliver awesome!

Qualifications

• Projected to graduate in 2024

• Self-starter with a strong sense of ownership for your work

• Strong communication skills - both verbal and written

• Broad understanding of AWS Managed services and tools such as Kinesis, Lambda, Firehose, Athena/Presto

• Knowledge in distributed Database technology such as Redshift, Snowflake, Dynamo DB

• Strong foundation in data engineering, data structures and software design

Equal Opportunity Statement:

Sony is an Equal Opportunity Employer. All persons will receive consideration for employment without regard to gender (including gender identity, gender expression and gender reassignment), race (including colour, nationality, ethnic or national origin), religion or belief, marital or civil partnership status, disability, age, sexual orientation, pregnancy or maternity, trade union membership or membership in any other legally protected category.

We strive to create an inclusive environment, empower employees and embrace diversity. We encourage everyone to respond.

PlayStation is a Fair Chance employer and qualified applicants with arrest and conviction records will be considered for employment.