Software Engineering Intern – Undergraduate

Role Summary:

Join Sony Interactive Entertainment and gain hands-on experience supporting the ongoing development of PlayStation’s Global Financial Reporting Systems. You'll work with the enterprise architecture team to build and improve scalable financial systems, with a focus on event-driven architectures, real-time data processing, and simple, intuitive frontends.

As an intern, you'll collaborate with engineers to develop technical solutions, improve existing applications, and explore how software engineering supports financial operations. This opportunity offers practical experience with backend development, data management, testing, and cloud technologies while contributing to projects that improve efficiency across the business.

What You’ll Be Doing:

  • Learn to develop and support event-driven microservices in Go that manage high-volume, real-time financial transactions and data flows.
  • Explore AI Data mining techniques using existing Datasets to support data analysis and processing.
  • Develop Unit Testing for the existing code base to improve testing coverage and reliability.
  • Apply common established code to an existing pipeline and support the ingestion of files into database.
  • Develop monitoring and recons to improve the reliability and visibility of the current data stack.
  • Participate in design discussions and collaborate with engineers to explore technical solutions and best practices.
  • Improve documentation and run book processes to support the productization of SRR's offerings.

What We’re Looking For:

  • Currently pursuing a Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Engineering, or a related field.
  • Familiarity with Golang, PYTHON, or similar languages, with an interest in building scalable, real-time microservices and REST APIs.
  • Experience with SQL and data modelling across different databases. Familiarity with additional reporting databases such as Oracle and Snowflake is a plus.
  • Understanding of software development principles, design best practices, and architecture standards.
  • Strong communication skills and the ability to collaborate with technical and non-technical teams in a global environment.
  • Interest in exploring new technologies and continuously developing technical skills.
  • Familiarity with cloud platforms, including hybrid cloud/on-prem environments in AWS.
  • Understanding of governance standards within controlled/compliance-based environments, particularly Sarbanes Oxley.
  • Experience designing, building, or maintaining single-page applications using React or similar frameworks is a plus.

Eligibility:

  • Students with expected graduation between May 2026 and December 2029 from an accredited university. Undergraduate
  • Able to work during one of the following periods: May 17th - August 6th or June 14th - September 3rd. Relocation assistance is available for eligible candidates.
  • Must be available for the entire 12-week internship period.

At this time, SIE will only consider applicants who are authorized to work for any employer in the United States and who will not require work visa sponsorship from SIE now or in the future to maintain their authorization to work in the United States.

Our intern positions offer a fixed hourly pay rate. Please note that the pay rate is exclusive to the internship period and may not reflect what pay may look like following the completion of an internship.

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.

Intern Pay Range
$45.75—$45.75 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.

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