PlayStation
Media, Gaming & EntertainmentDirect Greenhouse career site

Manager, Software Engineering

Pay
$201,400 – $302,000 per year
Location
San Mateo, CA · Hybrid
Job type
Full-time
Level
Lead / Staff
Experience
2+ years
Education
Bachelor's degree
Listed
30 days ago

Skills & highlights for this role

  • C/C++
  • Agile/Scrum
  • security engineering

Also useful

  • anti-cheat
  • IPC security
  • Ghidra

Stated benefits & perks

  • Medical
  • Dental
  • Vision
  • 401k match
  • Wellness program

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 Responsibilities

  • 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

Qualifications

  • 2+ years of people management experience
  • A bachelor's degree in computer science, or equivalent experience
  • Experience with requirements gathering and analysis, design and development of scalable code with unit tests across multiple technology stacks
  • Experience in building high-performance SDKs or Frameworks
  • Knowledge of client-side Operating System security fundamentals and features
  • Experience with securing consumer client-side applications
  • Extensive experience with C/C++
  • Experience or knowledge of cryptographic algorithms and ciphers
  • Experience recruiting and building great teams
  • Ability to work with a high level of autonomy and responsibility
  • Excellent written and verbal communication skills
  • Passion for supporting team members' career growth

Nice-to-Have Skills

  • Similar experiences with security engineering on non-PC platforms
  • Experience with low-level engineering tools (e.g. disassemblers/decompiling)
  • Experience with game development or game engine development
  • Experience with securing PC games
  • 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 or knowledge of binary obfuscation
  • Experience securing IPC traffic
  • Experience using tools such as Ghidra, IDA or x64Dbg

Pay and benefits

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

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

$201,400—$302,000 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 for more information about what personal information we collect, how we use it, who we share it with, and your data protection rights.

Why PlayStation

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.

Read the original posting

From PlayStation's careers page, first listed on Rolev.ai on October 10, 2026. Rolev.ai is not the employer.

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What is the salary for the Manager, Software Engineering role at PlayStation?

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