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Senior Software Engineer, Quality Engineering
Sony Interactive EntertainmentGreater Bristol Area, United Kingdom
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Salary
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£54,700
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About the role
Why Sony Interactive Entertainment?
Sony Interactive Entertainment isn’t just the Best Place to Play — it’s also the Best Place to Work. Sony Interactive Entertainment (SIE) is the company behind the PlayStation brand. As a subsidiary of Sony Group Corporation, we’re part of a proud legacy of innovation and excellence. SIE is a dynamic technology company, delivering cutting-edge hardware and network services to more than 100 million people and an entertainment leader, home to some of the most beloved and recognizable intellectual properties (IP) in the world. Our role at SIE is to create and nurture the experiences under the PlayStation brand, a name synonymous with entertainment excellence and creativity.
The role
We’re looking for a Senior Software Engineer to help strengthen the Quality Engineering foundation across our SDK teams.
This role focuses on building confidence in the quality, reliability, and delivery of SDK solutions across multiple platforms. You’ll work on automation, CI/CD, tooling, test strategy, diagnostics, reporting, and engineering practices that help teams build quality into their work from the start.
You’ll work across several SDK teams to understand quality risks, improve workflows, and turn broad or ambiguous problems into practical engineering outcomes. This role needs someone with a strong testing mindset, good technical judgement, and the ability to improve both the systems we use and the way teams think about quality.
We’re looking for someone who can operate beyond traditional test automation. The right person will understand how to identify risk, ask good questions, design useful test approaches, improve developer feedback loops, and build tools or processes that make quality easier to achieve.
You don’t need to have worked with every tool or domain listed below. You should have strong engineering fundamentals, be comfortable learning unfamiliar technical areas, and be able to apply that learning to real quality engineering problems.
What you’ll be doing
Sony Interactive Entertainment isn’t just the Best Place to Play — it’s also the Best Place to Work. Sony Interactive Entertainment (SIE) is the company behind the PlayStation brand. As a subsidiary of Sony Group Corporation, we’re part of a proud legacy of innovation and excellence. SIE is a dynamic technology company, delivering cutting-edge hardware and network services to more than 100 million people and an entertainment leader, home to some of the most beloved and recognizable intellectual properties (IP) in the world. Our role at SIE is to create and nurture the experiences under the PlayStation brand, a name synonymous with entertainment excellence and creativity.
The role
We’re looking for a Senior Software Engineer to help strengthen the Quality Engineering foundation across our SDK teams.
This role focuses on building confidence in the quality, reliability, and delivery of SDK solutions across multiple platforms. You’ll work on automation, CI/CD, tooling, test strategy, diagnostics, reporting, and engineering practices that help teams build quality into their work from the start.
You’ll work across several SDK teams to understand quality risks, improve workflows, and turn broad or ambiguous problems into practical engineering outcomes. This role needs someone with a strong testing mindset, good technical judgement, and the ability to improve both the systems we use and the way teams think about quality.
We’re looking for someone who can operate beyond traditional test automation. The right person will understand how to identify risk, ask good questions, design useful test approaches, improve developer feedback loops, and build tools or processes that make quality easier to achieve.
You don’t need to have worked with every tool or domain listed below. You should have strong engineering fundamentals, be comfortable learning unfamiliar technical areas, and be able to apply that learning to real quality engineering problems.
What you’ll be doing
- Building and improving CI/CD pipelines that support SDK build, test, validation, and release workflows.
- Strong practical Python skills for engineering automation, tooling, diagnostics, test orchestration, or quality-focused workflows.
- Experience building, maintaining, or improving CI/CD, build, test, release, or deployment automation, using tools such as Jenkins/Groovy or equivalent systems.
- Experience developing, maintaining, or improving automated tests, test frameworks, test infrastructure, or quality-focused tooling.
- A strong testing mindset, including the ability to identify risk, understand failure modes, question assumptions, and design practical approaches to build confidence in complex systems.
- Experience applying quality engineering practices beyond test execution, such as improving testability, observability, diagnostics, developer feedback, reporting, and release confidence.
- Ability to diagnose and resolve issues across complex build, test, CI, deployment, or execution environments.
- Comfortable working across Linux and Windows development environments.
- Familiarity with test frameworks such as pytest, GTest, or similar, and an understanding of quality metrics, test reporting, or practical test strategy.
- Experience using AI-assisted coding tools, LLMs, or agentic technologies to improve engineering productivity, with an understanding of how to review, validate, and apply generated output safely.
- Ability to work with ambiguity: asking good questions, identifying risks, breaking broad problems into practical steps, and making sound engineering decisions when every detail isn’t defined upfront.
- Pragmatic engineering judgement, including knowing when to build a robust long-term solution and when to deliver a focused improvement that unblocks progress.
- Clear communication and collaborative problem-solving, especially when working across distributed teams, resolving unclear ownership, and advocating for quality engineering concerns.
Experience or awareness in 1 or more of the following areas would be useful, but we don’t expect expertise in all of them:
- Languages such as C, C++, C#, or Rust.
- Build systems such as CMake or similar.
- .NET development or testing workflows.
- Container, Kubernetes, or VM-based environments.
- Desktop application testing.
- Graphics APIs or graphics-adjacent testing.
- AI/ML, MLOps, or data-driven quality workflows.
- Large-scale test infrastructure, reporting, or quality analytics.
- Developer productivity, platform engineering, or internal tooling.
- Experience introducing or improving AI-assisted engineering workflows within a team.
We know strong engineers come from many different career paths. You don’t need to match every item in this advert to be considered.
The most important experience for this role is practical engineering work that improves quality, confidence, reliability, or delivery. That could come from quality engineering, SDET, test infrastructure, automation, CI/CD, developer tooling, platform engineering, or complex technical debugging.
We’re looking for someone who can operate at a senior level, work well with others, and help raise the quality engineering bar across SDK teams.
You should be comfortable thinking beyond individual tests or pipelines. We want someone who can help teams understand risk, build better feedback loops, improve testability, make delivery workflows more reliable, and use technology, including agentic AI, to improve how engineering teams work.
If that sounds like work you’ve done, or a natural next step from your experience, we encourage you to apply.
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.
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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.
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.
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Where this offer sits in the market
SOC 2134 · UK · ONS ASHE 2025 · ~343k in sampleP25 £42kP75 £76k
£33kmedian £57kgoing rate £55k£103k
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