Low-Latency C++ Video Streaming Engineer

Sony Interactive Entertainment Inc.; Greater London; Hybrid; GBP 70,000 - 110,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Hybrid work

Professional development

Tech conference attendance

Internal hackathons

Job summary

Sony Interactive Entertainment Inc. invites engineers to join the GDFT team, focusing on the design and optimisation of PlayStation’s real time game streaming technologies.

You will contribute to low latency video streaming across platforms, tackling frame capture, encoding, transport, and presentation while improving visual quality and bandwidth efficiency. The role suits engineers with a strong C/C++ background and experience in native video or media systems, including embedded devices and

Qualifications

• Strong proficiency in C and C++ required for low level streaming components.
• Experience with real time video, media pipelines, codecs or embedded multimedia systems desirable.
• Comfort with debugging, profiling and performance analysis to reduce latency.

Responsibilities

• Develop, optimise and maintain low level C and C++ components within PlayStation’s game streaming stack.
• Investigate opportunities to reduce end to end streaming latency across capture, buffering, encoding, transport, decoding and presentation.
• Optimise hardware video encoders configuration and low latency encoding techniques.
• Analyse media pipelines to identify buffering, memory copies and synchronization delays.

Skills

C/C++

Real time video

Embedded multimedia

Video codecs

Debugging & profiling

Performance tuning

Linux/embedded systems

Git

Jenkins

Tools

Git

Jenkins

Job description

Sony Interactive Entertainment Inc. invites engineers to join the GDFT team, focusing on the design and optimisation of PlayStation’s real time game streaming technologies.

You will contribute to low latency video streaming across platforms, tackling frame capture, encoding, transport, and presentation while improving visual quality and bandwidth efficiency. The role suits engineers with a strong C/C++ background and experience in native video or media systems, including embedded devices and