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Sony Interactive EntertainmentPosted Aug 28, 2026
Software Development Manager, Social Experiences
USA-CA-San Diego-Via Esprillofull timeOn Sitesenior$185k–$277kH1B: yes
Sony Interactive Entertainment Software Development Manager, Social Experiences at Sony Interactive Entertainment leads multiple engineering teams building global consumer products with real-time cloud services. The role involves technical leadership, coaching, and advancing AI-assisted engineering practices.
Responsibilities
- We are seeking a Software Development Manager to lead multiple teams building global consumer products supported by highly available, real-time cloud services. You will lead engineers across client-side, server-side, and full-stack development and remain technically engaged through architecture, design, code, and operational reviews. You will combine technical judgment with empathy and humility, creating the clarity, trust, and autonomy experienced engineers need to do their best work. You will help teams evaluate and adopt AI-assisted engineering practices where they improve quality, productivity, or customer outcomes, with appropriate safeguards for privacy, security, intellectual property, and reliability.
- Lead, coach, recruit, and retain engineers across client, server, and full-stack teams while building leadership capacity and providing equitable growth opportunities, timely feedback, and clear performance expectations.
- Set clear goals and accountability, provide context, and give teams autonomy in how they achieve outcomes.
- Stay technically engaged through architecture, design, code, and operational reviews while partnering with technical leaders across client applications, APIs, distributed services, data systems, and cloud infrastructure.
- Translate ambiguous product objectives into achievable technical plans that balance speed, reliability, security, maintainability, cost, and long-term architectural health.
- Establish practical standards for software design, testing, observability, release management, deployment, documentation, and operational readiness.
Qualification
Experience with JavaFamiliarity with mobileA bachelor's degree in computer science
Preferred
- Experience building and releasing global consumer products with meaningful scale, availability, latency, or device-compatibility requirements.
- Experience with Java, JavaScript, or TypeScript, or with comparable languages and ecosystems.
- Experience with public-cloud platforms and cloud-native architectures.
- Familiarity with mobile, web, streaming, messaging, event-driven, connected-device, embedded, or other real-time technologies.
- Experience coordinating releases across client applications and cloud services, or leading geographically distributed or hybrid teams.
Benefits
- Dental
- Vision
- 401(k)
- PTO
- Wellness
Company
Sony Interactive Entertainment
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