Senior Software Engineer - Streaming & Systems

PlayStation•Aliso Viejo, CA

21h•Onsite

About The Position

As a Senior Software Engineer, Streaming & Systems, you will use AI-native engineering practices to build performance-sensitive systems across game streaming, platform software, infrastructure, and emerging product areas. You’ll work across low-level C/C++, Linux and Windows, real-time media, cloud-enabled capabilities, and systems problems that are still taking shape.

Requirements

BS in Computer Science, Computer Engineering, Electrical Engineering, or Senior-level software engineering experience, or equivalent ownership of complex systems
Strong C/C++ skills and deep Linux systems experience.
Practical fluency with AI-native engineering workflows, including coding agents, LLM-assisted debugging, test generation, automation, and rapid exploration.
Experience in systems-oriented or performance-sensitive codebases.
Strong product judgment, systems curiosity, and a focus on improving user and developer experience.
The ability to operate in ambiguity, prototype quickly, validate ideas, and harden successful approaches.
Clear communication skills and a habit of raising team quality through technical judgment, reusable workflows, and mentoring by example.
A habit of taking ownership, communicating trade-offs clearly, and keeping momentum as priorities change.

Nice To Haves

Rust development experience.
Windows systems experience.
Real-time media, game streaming, or interactive media experience.
Graphics, GPU, capture, rendering, or video encoding experience.
Distributed systems, cloud infrastructure, or production platform experience.
Experience helping teams adopt better AI-native engineering practices.
Japanese language or cross-cultural collaboration experience.
You enjoy playing video games.

Responsibilities

Explore, prototype, validate, and ship performance-sensitive systems that improve reliability, developer velocity, and user experience.
Build low-level and performance-sensitive software in C/C++, primarily in Linux environments.
Work across game streaming, platform software, infrastructure, developer tooling, and cloud-enabled capabilities.
Use AI-native workflows for code exploration, implementation, debugging, testing, documentation, automation, and rapid prototyping.
Investigate ways cloud-delivered experiences can become better than local experiences.
Turn ambiguous ideas into demos, experiments, measurements, and production-quality implementations.
Debug complex systems issues across performance, reliability, platform behavior, and production-like environments.
Collaborate with a focused engineering team and domain experts across streaming, platform, infrastructure, and cloud.