Backend Engineer
Clerkie
Principal Platform Architect
Xibo Open Source Digital Signage
full-time
Posted on:
Location Type: Remote
Location: Remote • Texas • 🇺🇸 United States
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💰 $230,000 - $260,000 per year
Job Level
Lead
Tech Stack
AWSCassandraDynamoDBEC2GoJ2EEJavaMicroservicesNoSQLOpen SourceOraclePythonSQL
About the role
- Define and evolve the architectural vision for the Sony Engagement Platform, ensuring it is scalable, secure, resilient, and aligned with long-term business and technical goals
- Design and lead the development of core platform services, including APIs, microservices, identity, personalization, and data pipelines, enabling seamless integration across Sony’s global business units
- Drive architectural consistency and technical excellence, establishing best practices for system design, software development, performance optimization, and observability
- Collaborate with cross-functional leaders in engineering, product, security, and operations to translate complex requirements into pragmatic, high-impact architectural solutions
- Evaluate and guide technology decisions, performing trade-off analyses and leading the adoption of emerging tools, frameworks, and patterns as appropriate
- Mentor and influence engineering teams, elevating engineering quality by guiding design reviews, fostering architectural thinking, and advocating for platform-first principles
- Champion platform scalability and efficiency, ensuring the platform can support rapid growth and a wide variety of use cases across Sony’s entertainment ecosystem
- Document and communicate architecture standards and decisions, providing clear guidance to both technical and non-technical stakeholders
- Act as a technical thought leader, representing the platform architecture in strategic planning sessions and helping to shape the overall direction of digital engagement at Sony.
Requirements
- BS Degree in Engineering, Computer Science or equivalent experience
- 10+ years’ experience in software development, architecture, programming, design, and analysis
- Expertise in programming languages and technologies including Java, Python, Golang, and infrastructure as code
- Experience delivering high performance, active-active, scalable services (Enterprise Java/J2EE, Web Services, Big Data/NoSQL)
- Track record monitoring and analyzing system performance, isolating issues or bottlenecks that could impact reliability, performance, and scalability
- Identifying and mitigating technical risks
- Strong knowledge of SQL and NoSQL programming (Oracle, Cassandra, Amazon Aurora) including both relational database schema designs and schema-less systems
- Hands-on experience in Amazon Web Services, at enterprise scale is required including familiarity with DynamoDB, Aurora, EC2, and other AWS services
- Experience executing performance testing and/or development efforts for a complex, high throughput system
- Solid understanding of the path(s) customer requests flow from web browser to back-end
- Extensive experience with agile development methodologies and test-driven development processes required
- Experience with open source technology stacks and scripting technologies required
- Ability to handle periodic on-call duty as well as out-of-band requests
- Possess the drive and passion for quality with the ability to inspire, excite and motivate other team members
- Possess outstanding verbal and written communication skills and be able to work with others at all levels, effective at working with geographically remote and culturally diverse teams
Benefits
- Comprehensive medical, prescription drug, dental, and vision coverage with coverage for spouses/domestic partners and child dependents
- Employee assistance plan and comprehensive behavioral health benefits
- Fertility benefits, including surrogacy, and adoption assistance programs
- Basic and supplemental life insurance for employees as well as supplemental life insurance coverage for their spouses/domestic partners and children
- Voluntary benefits such as group legal, identity theft protection, accident, and hospital indemnity insurance
- Short-term & long-term disability plans
- Paid parental and caregiver leave
- 401(k) Plan with pre-tax, Roth, and after-tax options and company match with immediate vesting
- Education assistance and student loan programs
- Flexible Work Arrangements, including remote and hybrid work schedules
- Time off to include vacation, paid holidays, sick leave, Summer Fridays (early release), and a winter break between Christmas and New Year’s Day (based on business needs)
- Referral bonuses (subject to eligibility)
- Matching gift program
- A wide variety of employee business resource groups (EBRGs)
- Special discounts on Sony products, offered exclusively to Sony employees
- Employee stock purchase plan (Sony covers commissions and fees for your Sony stock purchases made through after-tax payroll deductions)
- Annual incentive bonus
Applicant Tracking System Keywords
Tip: use these terms in your resume and cover letter to boost ATS matches.
Hard skills
JavaPythonGolangSQLNoSQLEnterprise Java/J2EEBig DataAmazon Web Servicesperformance testinginfrastructure as code
Soft skills
mentoringcommunicationcollaborationleadershipproblem-solvingtechnical thought leadershipinspiringmotivatingarchitectural thinkingcross-functional collaboration
Certifications
BS Degree in EngineeringBS Degree in Computer Science
