PlayStation
Software Engineering Manager
- Compensation
- $201.4K–$302K / yr
- Location
- San Mateo, CA, United States
- Work setup
- Not specified
- Seniority
- Not specified
- Employment
- Not specified
- Experience
- 2+ years
- Category
- Software engineering
- Posted
Skills
Full description
- Our team is innovating and crafting the next generation of gaming experiences on PlayStation!
- You will work alongside partners in engineering, product, design, and research to build tools and technologies that keep our players safe
- PlayStation Network currently has more than 100 million monthly active users. This is a phenomenal opportunity to join our high leverage team working on building outstanding new experiences!
- You will lead a passionate engineering team responsible for developing Microsoft Windows® PC based software for the PlayStation® and other applications/devices
- You will be responsible for providing strong technical leadership in highly secure and performant PC-based software design and development
- Lead, coach, mentor, grow, and empower your team to achieve their goals
- Strong understanding of software engineering methodologies
- Collaborate with colleagues to develop, implement, and uphold SDK and application security features for PC applications
- Create technical specifications as a Product Owner
- Guide the team technically to build high quality products on PC
- Participate in code reviews and documentation
- Lead day-to-day activities of the team using Agile/Scrum methodologies
- Collaborate with geographical diverse teams to coordinate development activities
- Contribute to engineering-wide initiatives as a member of PlayStation’s engineering management team
- Excellent written and verbal communication skills
- Experience or knowledge of cryptographic algorithms and ciphers
- Experience recruiting and building great teams
- Knowledge of client-side Operating System security fundamentals and features
- Experience in building high-performance SDKs or Frameworks
- Ability to work with a high level of autonomy and responsibility
- 2+ years of people management experience
- Passion for supporting team members’ career growth
- Extensive experience with C/C++
- Experience with requirements gathering and analysis, design and development of scalable code with unit tests across multiple technology stacks
- A bachelor’s degree in computer science, or equivalent experience
- Experience with securing consumer client-side applications
- Similar experiences with security engineering on non-PC platforms
- Experience with game development or game engine development
- Experience with securing PC games
- Experience with low-level engineering tools (e.g. disassemblers/decompiling)
- Experience or knowledge of anti-cheat and/or anti-tamper concepts and products
- Experience with codesigning and certificate verification workflows
- Experience or knowledge with data integrity checking
- Experience securing IPC traffic
- Experience or knowledge of binary obfuscation
- Experience using tools such as Ghidra, IDA or x64Dbg