Software Development Manager, Social Experiences

Qualifications: Software development experience sufficient to evaluate architecture, understand code, assess tradeoffs, and guide technical decisions across client applications, APIs, distributed systems, cloud services, and the interactions between device software and backend platforms. Experience managing more than one engineering team, or comparable experience leading a complex organization with multiple technical workstreams. Experience developing and releasing customer-facing software across client-side, server-side, or full-stack systems. Experience with client release lifecycles, such as device or operating-system compatibility, staged rollouts, telemetry, backward compatibility, and coordination with service deployments. Experience building or operating production services, including observability, scalability, performance, reliability, or incident management. Evidence of delivering product outcomes while improving engineering quality, team capability, or organizational effectiveness through clear communication, sound tradeoffs, and effective cross-functional collaboration. Experience coaching engineers across career stages and addressing performance expectations with clarity, consistency, and care. Sound judgment about the opportunities, risks, and limitations of AI-assisted engineering or AI-powered products, with prior delivery of an AI product not required. 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. Experience introducing AI development tools, delivering AI-powered capabilities, or leading product or technical transformation. A bachelor's degree in computer science, engineering, or a related discipline, or equivalent practical experience. If your experience is transferable but does not match every preferred qualification, we encourage you to apply. At SIE, we consider several factors when setting each role’s base pay range, including the competitive benchmarking data for the market and geographic location. Please note that the base pay range may vary in line with our hybrid working policy and individual base pay will be determined based on job-related factors which may include knowledge, skills, experience, and location. In addition, this role is eligible for SIE’s top-tier benefits package that includes medical, dental, vision, matching 401(k), paid time off, wellness program and coveted employee discounts for Sony products. This role also may be eligible for a bonus package. Click here to learn more. The estimated base pay range for this role is listed below. $184,600 — $277,000 USD Please note, Sony Interactive Entertainment conducts background checks at the offer stage for all new employees (which may include criminal background checks for some roles) and will need to process personal information to support these checks. Please refer to our Candidate Privacy Notice for more information about what personal information we collect, how we use it, who we share it with, and your data protection rights. Equal Opportunity Statement: Sony is an Equal Opportunity Employer. All persons will receive consideration for employment without regard to gender (including gender identity, gender expression and gender reassignment), race (including colour, nationality, ethnic or national origin), religion or belief, marital or civil partnership status, disability, age, sexual orientation, pregnancy, maternity or parental status, trade union membership or membership in any other legally protected category. We strive to create an inclusive environment, empower employees and embrace diversity. We encourage everyone to respond. Sony Interactive Entertainment is a Fair Chance employer and qualified applicants with arrest and conviction records will be considered for employment.