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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 Group Corporation.

Role Responsibilities

• Collaborate with colleagues to develop, implement, and uphold SDK and application security features
• Produce excellent, detailed design and development documentation
• Work with colleagues from other teams and across the org to deliver features on time, with the ability to respond to evolving requirements, and strategic shifts in direction
• Ability to balance periodic on-call duty, and defensive engineering to minimize impact to business and diagnose problems
• Familiar and comfortable with Agile/Scrum software development methodology

Qualifications

• 2+ years of programming experience in C/C++/C#/Java (or equivalent) developing Applications or SDKs using object-oriented design patterns
• Experience working with cryptography or cryptographic algorithms and signatures, certificates, data integrity programming, and securing data through communication protocols such as IPC
• Strong understanding of engineering standard methodologies – requirement gathering and analysis, design and development of scalable code with unit tests, participation in code reviews and documentation, experience with multiple technology stacks
• Thrive in a Team environment where you're writing high quality and well-architected code

Nice-to-Have Skills

• Experience with Windows/PC Security software development
• Knowledge or experience of RESTful Web Service APIs and backend infrastructure
• Experience with Web Services Frontend development

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The estimated base pay range for this role is listed below.

$163,700 - $245,500 USD

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