Manager, Software Engineering

Responsibilities

• Lead, mentor, and grow a team of experienced software engineers, fostering a culture of technical excellence, ownership, collaboration, and innovation.
• Provide coaching, career development, performance management, and continuous feedback to support individual and team success.
• Establish clear goals, expectations, and growth opportunities while ensuring team members feel valued, empowered, and heard.
• Drive talent development, succession planning, and hiring efforts to build and maintain a high-performing engineering team.
• Foster an inclusive and collaborative work environment that encourages creativity, accountability, and continuous learning.
• Lead initiatives to improve Performance, Stability, Scalability, and overall reliability of the PlayStation Portal platform.
• Define and drive Platform Health KPIs and Operational Excellence objectives.
• Identify bottlenecks and systemic issues through profiling, telemetry, benchmarking, and large-scale data analysis.
• Drive root-cause analysis and long-term corrective actions for platform issues.
• Design and implement telemetry, logging, observability, and monitoring systems across the platform stack.
• Enable engineering teams to make informed decisions through platform analytics, dashboards, and operational metrics.
• Partner closely with QE teams to define measurable KPIs for Performance, Stability, Reliability, and Quality.
• Integrate automated measurements, benchmarking, and validation into CI/CD pipelines.
• Lead automation efforts for regression detection, performance monitoring, and platform health assessment.
• Improve engineering productivity through continuous testing, automated quality gates, and development workflow optimization.
• Collaborate with Security teams to identify platform security risks, vulnerabilities, and mitigation strategies.
• Drive implementation and tracking of security improvements across the platform stack.
• Support secure platform architecture, threat mitigation, and security best practices throughout the software lifecycle.
• Build and maintain dashboards that provide real-time visibility into platform health, quality, performance, and operational metrics.
• Enable engineering and leadership teams to continuously monitor platform status and trends.
• Establish reporting mechanisms for platform health and quality indicators.
• Lead large-scale technical initiatives from requirements definition and architecture through implementation, launch, and post-launch support.
• Coordinate execution across multiple teams while balancing technical excellence, business priorities, and delivery commitments.
• Drive predictable execution through Agile methodologies, effective planning, risk management, and stakeholder alignment.
• Contribute to technical roadmap planning and strategic platform initiatives.

Qualifications

• Bachelor’s or Master’s degree in Computer Science, Computer Engineering, or a related field, or equivalent practical experience.
• 7+ years of experience delivering technologies in the interactive entertainment industry, computer graphics, SDKs, frameworks, Android applications, mobile game development, or related fields.
• Experience managing software engineering teams delivering large-scale platform, system software, mobile, or consumer products.
• Strong understanding of Android/AOSP platform architecture and system-level software development.
• Proficiency in Android development using Java, Kotlin, and Android Studio.
• Strong understanding of mobile architectures, Android ecosystems, development trends, and emerging technologies.
• Experience with Performance Optimization, Stability Analysis, Reliability Engineering, and Production Debugging.
• Demonstrated ability to lead, measure, and optimize UI and application performance, including UI responsiveness, startup performance, rendering performance, and efficient network utilization.
• Experience building telemetry, observability, logging, monitoring, analytics, or diagnostics systems.
• Experience with CI/CD systems, automated testing infrastructure, and engineering productivity tooling.
• Experience developing multi-threaded applications with strong understanding of concurrency, synchronization, and performance optimization.
• Excellent people management skills, including goal setting, performance reviews, coaching, mentoring, organizational planning, and talent development.
• Proven experience fostering an inclusive, collaborative, and high-performing engineering culture.
• Strong project management skills with experience prioritizing work, managing resources, mitigating risks, and delivering projects on schedule.
• Proven experience with Agile development methodologies, including Scrum and iterative development practices.
• Experience taking products or platforms from requirements definition through global launch and live operation.
• Excellent communication and stakeholder management skills with the ability to build strong partnerships across engineering, product, QE, security, and leadership organizations.
• Strong technical writing and documentation skills, with the ability to communicate designs, implementation details, architecture decisions, and testing strategies across global teams.
• Strong advocacy for personal and professional growth, ensuring every team member feels valued, supported, and empowered to succeed.
• A proactive, adaptable leadership style with a deep commitment to team success and organizational excellence.