[Hiring] Lead Analytics Engineer @PlayStation

Role Description

As a Lead Analytics Developer, you’ll work in our cross-disciplinary engineering team to scale our platform, expand its reach, and help define and build the future of analytics for PlayStation games. You should have a passion for video games and a background in data or analytics engineering. You’re looking for a fun, dynamic environment to take on new challenges.

In your first six months, you will:

• Work on new title launches.
• Build data models to ensure efficient and consistent queries.
• Work directly with game studios and data analysts to design and validate suitable in-game telemetry.
• Help expand our use of technologies, such as dbt and airflow, in ways that are suitable to our use cases.
• Be given ownership of data models for specific games.
• Work closely with Game Analytics team members and game studio colleagues to ensure we’re building with consistency and performance in mind.

Qualifications

• Adept at writing SQL on analytics (OLAP) databases (preferably Redshift, or similar databases).
• Experience implementing and using data modelling tools such as dbt or SQLMesh.
• Experience in transforming business needs into data model requirements & solutions.
• Excited by Big Data projects and technology, and want to gain more experience in this area.
• Committed to quality as a top priority, with an interest in repeatable, testable, destructible, test-driven database development.

Requirements

• Bonus points for a degree in Computer Science.
• Experience with Python, AWS Glue, source control (Git, Liquibase), Airflow.
• Familiarity with AAA game development and modern console games.

Benefits

• Medical, dental, vision.
• Matching 401(k).
• Paid time off.
• Wellness program.
• Coveted employee discounts for Sony products.
• Eligibility for a bonus package.