--- title: 'Software Development Manager, Social Experiences at PlayStation Global' canonical: 'https://feeny.ai/job/software-development-manager-social-experiences-playstation-global-united-3asqv1qcyntk' type: 'job' last_seen: '2026-09-05' --- # Software Development Manager, Social Experiences at PlayStation Global - **Company:** PlayStation Global - **Location:** United States San Diego, CA - **Compensation:** $185k–$277k - **Posted:** 2026-08-28 - **Last confirmed live:** 2026-09-05 - **Apply:** https://job-boards.greenhouse.io/sonyinteractiveentertainmentglobal/jobs/6147061004 ## Job description Why Sony Interactive Entertainment? Sony Interactive Entertainment isn’t just the Best Place to Play — it’s also the Best Place to Work. Sony Interactive Entertainment (SIE) is the company behind the PlayStation brand. As a subsidiary of Sony Group Corporation, we’re part of a proud legacy of innovation and excellence. SIE is a dynamic technology company, delivering cutting-edge hardware and network services to more than 100 million people and an entertainment leader, home to some of the most beloved and recognizable intellectual properties (IP) in the world. Our role at SIE is to create and nurture the experiences under the PlayStation brand, a name synonymous with entertainment excellence and creativity. Role overview: We are seeking a Software Development Manager to lead multiple teams building global consumer products supported by highly available, real-time cloud services. You will lead engineers across client-side, server-side, and full-stack development and remain technically engaged through architecture, design, code, and operational reviews. You will combine technical judgment with empathy and humility, creating the clarity, trust, and autonomy experienced engineers need to do their best work. You will help teams evaluate and adopt AI-assisted engineering practices where they improve quality, productivity, or customer outcomes, with appropriate safeguards for privacy, security, intellectual property, and reliability. Responsibilities: - Lead, coach, recruit, and retain engineers across client, server, and full-stack teams while building leadership capacity and providing equitable growth opportunities, timely feedback, and clear performance expectations. - Set clear goals and accountability, provide context, and give teams autonomy in how they achieve outcomes. - Stay technically engaged through architecture, design, code, and operational reviews while partnering with technical leaders across client applications, APIs, distributed services, data systems, and cloud infrastructure. - Translate ambiguous product objectives into achievable technical plans that balance speed, reliability, security, maintainability, cost, and long-term architectural health. - Establish practical standards for software design, testing, observability, release management, deployment, documentation, and operational readiness. - Improve the resilience, scalability, and performance of services that operate 24/7/365, participate in alert escalation coverage from 8:00 a.m. to 8:00 p.m. Pacific Time, and promote disciplined incident response and learning-focused reviews that produce durable improvements without blame. - Evaluate and advance responsible uses of AI across discovery, development, testing, debugging, documentation, operations, and customer-facing product capabilities. - Partner with Product, Design, Data, Security, and other leaders to deliver valuable consumer experiences and communicate priorities, tradeoffs, risks, decisions, and outcomes clearly to technical and nontechnical stakeholders. Skills and Qualifications: - Software development experience sufficient to evaluate architecture, understand code, assess tradeoffs, and guide technical decisions across client applications, APIs, distributed systems, cloud services, and the interactions between device software and backend platforms. - Experience managing more than one engineering team, or comparable experience leading a complex organization with multiple technical workstreams. - Experience developing and releasing customer-facing software across client-side, server-side, or full-stack systems. - Experience with client release lifecycles, such as device or operating-system compatibility, staged rollouts, telemetry, backward compatibility, and coordination with service deployments. - Experience building or operating production services, including observability, scalability, performance, reliability, or incident management. - Evidence of delivering product outcomes while improving engineering quality, team capability, or organizational effectiveness through clear communication, sound tradeoffs, and effective cross-functional collaboration. - Experience coaching engineers across career stages and addressing performance expectations with clarity, consistency, and care. - Sound judgment about the opportunities, risks, and limitations of AI-assisted engineering or AI-powered products, with prior delivery of an AI product not required. Preferred: - Experience building and releasing global consumer products with meaningful scale, availability, latency, or device-compatibility requirements. - Experience with Java, JavaScript, or TypeScript, or with comparable languages and ecosystems. - Experience with public-cloud platforms and cloud-native architectures. - Familiarity with mobile, web, streaming, messaging, event-driven, connected-device, embedded, or other real-time technologies. - Experience coordinating releases across client applications and cloud services, or leading geographically distributed or hybrid teams. - Experience introducing AI development tools, delivering AI-powered capabilities, or leading product or technical transformation. - A bachelor's degree in computer science, engineering, or a related discipline, or equivalent practical experience. If your experience is transferable but does not match every preferred qualification, we encourage you to apply. At SIE, we consider several factors when setting each role’s base pay range, including the competitive benchmarking data for the market and geographic location. Please note that the base pay range may vary in line with our hybrid working policy and individual base pay will be determined based on job-related factors which may include knowledge, skills, experience, and location. In addition, this role is eligible for SIE’s top-tier benefits package that includes medical, dental, vision, matching 401(k), paid time off, wellness program and coveted employee discounts for Sony products. This role also may be eligible for a bonus package. Click [here](https://careers.playstation.com/benefits) to learn more. The estimated base pay range for this role is listed below. $184,600—$277,000 USD Please note, Sony Interactive Entertainment conducts background checks at the offer stage for all new employees (which may include criminal background checks for some roles) and will need to process personal information to support these checks. Please refer to our [Candidate Privacy Notice](https://www.playstation.com/legal/careers-privacy-notice/) for more information about what personal information we collect, how we use it, who we share it with, and your data protection rights. 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, maternity or parental status, 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. Sony Interactive Entertainment is a Fair Chance employer and qualified applicants with arrest and conviction records will be considered for employment. ## About PlayStation Global ## Company Overview - **One-liner**: Sony Interactive Entertainment (SIE) is the global leader in interactive entertainment behind the PlayStation brand, delivering generation-defining hardware, pioneering network services, and award-winning games. - **Entity Type**: Private (wholly owned subsidiary of Sony Group Corporation) - **Headquarters**: San Mateo, California, USA (with global functions in London, United Kingdom, and Tokyo, Japan) - **Founded**: 1994 (with the launch of the original PlayStation in Japan) - **Founders**: Not publicly available as a single founder; the PlayStation brand was created by Sony Corporation ## Core Business - **Primary industry**: Gaming & Interactive Entertainment - **Target customers**: B2C (gamers and consumers worldwide), B2B (game developers, publishers, and partners) - **Mission or purpose statement**: "To be the best place to play" – pushing the boundaries of play and inspiring remarkable experiences for players everywhere. ## Products & Services - **PlayStation 5 (PS5)**: Flagship home video game console, including PS5 Pro model, with cutting-edge hardware and immersive gaming experiences. - **PlayStation Network (PSN)**: Online service platform enabling multiplayer, digital storefront, and social features. - **PlayStation Plus**: Subscription service offering online multiplayer, monthly games, and cloud storage. - **PlayStation VR2**: Next-generation virtual reality headset for PS5. - **PlayStation Studios**: A collective of first-party game development studios producing iconic franchises (The Last of Us, God of War, Horizon, Spider-Man, etc.). - **PlayStation Accessories**: Controllers (DualSense), headsets, and other peripherals. - **PlayStation Store**: Digital marketplace for games, add-ons, and media. - **PlayStation 5 Console & Games**: Hardware and software sold globally. ## Market Standing - **Valuation/Market Cap**: Not publicly available (wholly owned subsidiary of Sony Group Corporation) - **Key Metric**: PS5 generation has generated more than **$136 billion in sales** and **$13 billion in operating income** as of March 31, 2026. PlayStation 5 sold-in over **93 million units** worldwide. **125 million monthly active users** (as of March 31, 2026). **Over 1.64 billion software units** sold across PS4 and PS5. **51 billion hours** of annual gameplay (as of March 31, 2025). - **Notable Investors/Partners**: Sony Group Corporation (parent company); extensive network of third-party publishers, developers, and platform partners. - **Growth Signals**: Record-high engagement levels; continued expansion of first-party studios; successful launch of PS5 Pro; increasing digital and subscription revenue; strong global brand recognition. ## Competitive Advantages - **Integrated Ecosystem**: End-to-end control over hardware, software, network services, and first-party content creation. - **Iconic IP Portfolio**: Beloved franchises (The Last of Us, God of War, Horizon, Gran Turismo, etc.) that drive platform loyalty. - **Global Brand Power**: PlayStation is one of the most recognized entertainment brands worldwide. - **Scale & Reach**: 125 million MAU, 93 million PS5 consoles sold, and a massive library of software. - **Innovation Track Record**: Consistently pushing boundaries in graphics, haptics, VR, and online services. ## Strategic Focus - Continuing to grow the PlayStation 5 install base and expand into new hardware (PS5 Pro, PS VR2). - Strengthening first-party game development and acquiring/expanding studios. - Growing network services and subscription revenue through PlayStation Plus. - Leveraging IP across other media (film, TV, merchandise) via Sony Pictures. - Enhancing cloud gaming and streaming capabilities. - Fostering an inclusive, diverse, and innovative workplace culture. ## Why Work Here - **Culture**: Celebrated for being "trailblazers, passionate, one" – a united, diverse, and innovative global team. Recognized as a 2025 & 2026 Company Leader in LGBTQ+ Workplace Inclusion (Human Rights Campaign Corporate Equality Index 100). - **Flexible Work**: "Flex Modes" blend in-person collaboration and remote flexibility, allowing teams to connect when it counts and work from anywhere. - **Benefits & Perks**: Comprehensive benefits package including learning & development tailored paths, well-being initiatives, and top-tier amenities. - **Engineering & Tech**: Opportunities across software engineering, game development, network services, cybersecurity, data analytics, and more. - **Global Presence**: Offices in San Mateo (HQ), London, Tokyo, and additional studios worldwide. - **Internship Program**: "Internships that Inspire" for students and early-career talent. ## Sources 1. [playstation.com](https://www.playstation.com/en-us/corporate/about-us/) – About Us, facts, and leadership 2. [sonyinteractive.com](https://sonyinteractive.com/en/our-company/) – Company overview, values, fast facts 3. [careers.playstation.com](https://careers.playstation.com/) – Careers page with culture, benefits, and hiring process 4. 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