Software Developer Intern

Software Developer Intern - Build & Tools

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Recognized as a global leader in interactive and digital entertainment, Sony Interactive Entertainment (SIE) is responsible for the PlayStation brand and family of products and services. PlayStation has delivered innovation to the market since the launch of the original PlayStation in Japan in 1994. The PlayStation family of products and services include PlayStation4, PlayStationVR, PlayStationVita, PlayStation3, PlayStationStore, PlayStationPlus, PlayStationVideo, PlayStationMusic, PlayStationNow, PlayStationVue, PlayStationOriginal and acclaimed PlayStation software titles from SIE Worldwide Studios. Headquartered in San Mateo, California, SIE is a wholly-owned subsidiary of Sony Corporation and has global functions and regional headquarters in California, London and Tokyo.

Do you have passion for identifying tedious manual processes and designing a way to automate them? Do you enjoy tinkering with the latest tools and frameworks to learn how they can be used to improve existing systems?
We are seeking an intern to join one of our CI/CD teams, which provides the tools and processes that enable development teams within our Foundational Systems and Experiences Engineering (FSEE) organization to do their job: building incredible experiences for millions of PlayStation players

Our team is responsible for the CI/CD infrastructure and pipelines across all of our frontend development teams on all platforms, on-console (PlayStation 4/5) and off-console (Web, Mobile, PC). We have a variety of roles available on our team, with the opportunity to work in different verticals at the intersection of platform technologies and cloud infrastructure.

You will:
Work with a team of technically sophisticated engineers who make developer experience their first priority
Experience a wide range of tools and technologies that you will use to both understand the problems of your fellow engineers and improve their productivity
Work with team members across PlayStation to balance and accommodate competing desires
Deliver practical, useful, and reliable tools, processes, and systems to PlayStation engineers
Use both qualitative and quantitative metrics to determine priorities and measure effectiveness

You might work on:
Changing how PlayStation engineers write, share, review, and merge code through education, automated tooling, new infrastructure, and new processes
Building systems to ensure PlayStation developers' builds are always green, and reacting quickly if something goes wrong
Constructing better tooling and metrics so that we, and other developers we work with, understand the health of our systems
Performance engineering to make our builds as fast and reliable as possible

You may be a fit for this role if you:
Are passionate about developer experience
Have hands-on experience building tools that are used daily by other developers (e.g. CI, build support)
Feel comfortable working with a wide variety of technologies and enjoy getting to know new systems
Enjoy designing and building systems and processes that scale
Are experienced with either JavaScript or TypeScript, and open to working with other languages
Are results driven and pragmatic
Thrive in a collaborative and diverse environment involving different team members and domain experts
Above average pay based on your current work term, verified by the latest co-op earnings report on the uwaterloo website. Feel free to ask about compensation in the interview
PlayStation game vouchers for select PS4/PS5 games that are released during the co-op term
PlayStation store credit every month
Access to our employee store with discounts on select Sony/PlayStation products
Paid lunch for team/company special events (typically 1 event per month)
Special intern events organized by our Early Career Talent team
Free lunch and snacks if you're working from the office
Hackathons
Career/personal development resources

A few other things you should know:
Our office is a fun, relaxed and casual environment. We're a tight-knit community of about 60 full-time employees, and we enjoy welcoming new co-ops each term (we typically have 5 or more)

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Targeted Clusters
- Theme - Computing: Software
ENG - Electrical and Computer Engineering
ENG - Software Engineering
MATH - Computer Science