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Staff Solution Architect – Sony Interactive Entertainment

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®VR, PlayStation®Plus, PlayStation™Now, acclaimed PlayStation software titles from PlayStation Studios, and more.

As a member of Sony Interactive Entertainment’s architecture, you’ll have the opportunity to shape the future of distributed systems that power PlayStation’s platforms and services. We are looking for a Staff Solution Architect to provide technical leadership across high-impact initiatives, bridging engineering teams, business needs, and future-facing modernization efforts.

In this role, you will apply deep technical expertise in distributed systems, cloud-native platforms, and Kubernetes to define scalable architectures, mentor teams, and drive cross-org alignment. You will work with creative, forward-thinking, and collaborative teammates across infrastructure, product engineering, and partner-facing groups to enable innovation while ensuring resilient, future-ready platforms.

This position offers a healthy mix of architecture definition, leadership, and hands-on technical exploration. An ideal candidate thrives in ambiguity, influences across organizational boundaries, and takes pride in enabling others’ success.

Responsibilities

• Lead the design and evolution of distributed system architectures that support core SIE platforms and services.
• Drive cross-org collaboration through technical forums, ensuring alignment on modernization, platform resilience, and developer experience.
• Contribute to the broader SIE technology strategy, especially in areas like GenAI adoption, AI-assisted developer productivity, and cloud-native modernization
• Engage in hands-on development to prototype new solutions, validate architectural decisions, and model best practices for engineering teams.
• Mentor and guide engineers at all levels, helping staff and senior engineers grow into architectural leaders.
• Serve as a bridge across multiple teams, balancing business impact, technical debt, and long-term platform strategy.
• Develop patterns and reference architectures for Kubernetes, CRDs, and Operators, promoting consistency and reuse across teams.
• Provide thought leadership on future-state blueprints, including hybrid hosting, service mesh, multi-region resilience, and data movement patterns.
• Partnering with product leads to co-define user journeys, ensuring technical design enables scalable and developer-friendly workflows.
• Escalate and resolve complex production issues with architectural insight, guiding teams toward robust solutions.

Requirements

• BS in Computer Science (or related field); advanced degree a plus.
• 5+ years of experience designing and implementing distributed systems.
• 7+ years of development experience in one/more of the programming languages : Java, Rust, Python or C++.
• 3+ years of experience developing with Kubernetes, including CRDs and Operators (Operators a strong plus).
• Demonstrated experience leading cross-functional teams or initiatives, with proven ability to influence beyond direct authority.
• Proven ability to solve complex technical problems and design multi-team, cross-domain architectures that align business goals with scalable engineering solutions
• Strong understanding of cloud-native architecture patterns, including service mesh, hybrid hosting, and multi-cloud.
• Experience contributing to architectural forums, reviews, or boards.
• Excellent communication and storytelling skills; able to explain complex systems to both executives and engineers.
• Familiarity with AI/ML trends and ability to evaluate emerging technologies for business impact.