Staff Solution Architect

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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

Skills & Knowledge

Additional Attributes

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 color, nationality, ethnic or national origin), religion or belief, marital or civil partnership status, disability, age, sexual orientation, pregnancy, birthing parent 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.

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

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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 to learn more.

The estimated base pay range for this role is listed below.$198,200—$297,400 USD

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.

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