Manager, Software Engineer

Why PlayStation?

PlayStation isn't just the Best Place to Play — it's also the Best Place to Work. Today, we're recognized as a global leader in entertainment producing The PlayStation family of products and services including PlayStation5, PlayStation4, PlayStationVR, PlayStationPlus, acclaimed PlayStation software titles from PlayStation Studios, and more.

PlayStation also strives to create an inclusive environment that empowers employees and embraces diversity. We welcome and encourage everyone who has a passion and curiosity for innovation, technology, and play to explore our open positions and join our growing global team.

The PlayStation brand falls under Sony Interactive Entertainment, a wholly-owned subsidiary of Sony Group Corporation.

Sony Interactive Entertainment's Console Security team is looking for a driven leader to establish a team presence in our growing Dublin office. While growing the local team, you will collaborate with a global console security community to effect areas from improvements our low-level code to establishing better ways to contribute to the OSS community for better scale outcomes for the future. Our consoles and products are continually evolving as is our approach to improving security to ensure PlayStation platforms stay the best place to play.

• Establishing a team of high performing engineers focused on improving the security hardening of the OSes for PlayStation devices with an emphasis on global collaboration.
• Drive projects across the theme of security hardening from the kernel and driver layers, including memory safety technology adoption, mitigation deployment, sandboxing/isolation, refactoring, and other approaches / tooling as necessary.
• Building new methodologies for identifying and mitigating security threats to PlayStation low-level systems in collaboration with our global security teams across our platforms
• Collaborate closely with hypervisor, platform security and other OS teams(driver, integration) to improve security while balancing performance and productization concerns
• This role requires openness to new ways of approaching low-level software to achieve stronger security.

• Degree in computer science or equivalent experience.
• Experience leading high-performing engineering teams who collaborate with peer teams globally, balancing technical innovation and excellence along with strong people management.
• Background in kernel hardening, low-level system hardening, exploit mitigation. Familiarity with the security community
• Expertise to lead a team to deliver with an RTOS kernel – preferably BSD-based or real-time implementations of POSIX-type kernels such as Linux will be considered
• Experience in operating within a distributed team with international travel to accelerate collaboration as needed
• Provide mentorship and growth for team members
• Plus if have done upstreaming to Open-Source OSes for security fixes
• Experience with C and C++ languages along with an understanding of associated toolchains
• Has collaborated with hardware teams and vendors for low level function and debugging

Equal Opportunity Statement:

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