Your browser does not support javascript! Please enable it, otherwise web will not work for you.

Senior Principal Engineer

Home > Other programming jobs

Senior Principal Engineer in USA

  • PlayStation Global
  • Full time
  • Email
  • San Mateo, CA

Responsibilities

  • Translate the Data & Intelligence strategy into technical strategy, target architecture, principles, and lifecycle standards.
  • Chair the architecture review forum, publish decisions, track adoption, and enforce conformance across engineering organizations.
  • Define reusable platform and domain boundaries, data contracts, golden paths, model evaluation, experimentation, observability, reliability, cost, and lifecycle standards.
  • Lead architecture and delivery for complex data, machine learning, intelligence, measurement, activation, and enterprise decision-data initiatives.
  • Author proposals, reference designs, and prototypes, and work directly with engineering and data science teams to remove critical blockers.
  • Partner with security, privacy, legal, governance, and responsible-AI teams to embed controls throughout data and ML systems.
  • Rationalize duplicative capabilities and improve interoperability across SIE’s data and machine learning landscape.
  • Advise senior executives on technical investments, tradeoffs, emerging capabilities, risks, and annual planning.
  • Define measures for adoption, reuse, time-to-action, quality, reliability, safety, and cost.
  • Lead a community of Principal Engineers and mentor Principal, Staff, Senior engineers, architects, ML engineers, and data scientists.
  • Represent SIE’s data and machine learning direction in senior leadership, partner, and industry forums.

Requirements

  • 15+ years of experience in software, data, or machine learning engineering, including 9+ years leading architecture and delivery of large-scale complex systems.
  • Proven record of authoring architectures, standards, or platforms adopted and sustained across multiple organizations.
  • Experience taking data, ML, or decisioning systems serving tens of millions of consumers into production and operating them at scale.
  • Experience chairing or serving as the deciding technical voice in architecture review forums spanning multiple engineering organizations.
  • Deep expertise in at least two areas including reusable data products, semantic and metadata layers, data contracts, ML platforms, lifecycle management, evaluation, decisioning, real-time signals, distributed inference, activation platforms, experimentation, causal measurement, generative AI, retrieval, agentic systems, responsible AI, privacy, or technical governance.
  • Strong command of distributed systems, cloud, data architecture, APIs, security, reliability, observability, and performance engineering.
  • Ability to influence senior executives, engineering and product leaders, and cross-functional partners without direct authority.
  • Outstanding written communication and experience leading through technical documents.
  • Experience mentoring Staff, Principal, or similarly senior technical professionals.
  • Master’s degree in Computer Science, Machine Learning, Engineering, or a related discipline, or equivalent experience.
  • Preferred experience applying data and ML in gaming, entertainment, media, digital commerce, or other large-scale consumer ecosystems.
  • Preferred experience with personalization, recommendations, customer or content intelligence, experimentation, predictive decisioning, shared data or ML platforms, feature/vector/graph/semantic/knowledge platforms, AI gateways, LLMOps, or translating research into production capabilities.
  • Contributions through open source, patents, publications, standards, or conference talks are a plus.

Benefits

  • Top-tier benefits include medical, dental, vision, matching 401(k), paid time off, wellness programs, and employee discounts on Sony products.
  • The role may be eligible for a bonus package.
  • The role is subject to Sony Interactive Entertainment’s hybrid working policy, with individual arrangements varying by location and role factors.

Salary: $304k - $456k/yr

PlayStation Global

At PlayStation Global, we focus on creating user-friendly solutions that simplify processes, improve efficiency, and empower teams to succeed.

Similar positions

Sr. Engineer

  • Genpact
  • Full time
  • Others
  • 10/26/2026
  • Bengaluru, India

Staff Backend Engineer

  • Grafana Labs
  • Full time
  • Remote
  • 10/26/2026
  • Salary: kr 879k-kr 1054k
  • Sweden

Product Security Engineer

  • Informatica
  • Full time
  • Others
  • 10/25/2026
  • Hyderābād, India

Staff Backend Engineer

  • Grafana Labs
  • Full time
  • Remote
  • 10/25/2026
  • Salary: €110k-€132k
  • Germany

Senior Software QA Engineer

  • Epiq
  • Full time
  • Others
  • 10/25/2026
  • Pune, India

Listings

by


Job Type

Language

Country

CodingJobBoard.com © 2026