Low-Latency Cloud Game Streaming Engineer

Sony Computer Entertainment France SA; Greater London; On-site; GBP 70,000 - 90,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Flexible working

Hybrid work

Professional development

Job summary

Sony Interactive Entertainment in London is seeking a Systems Engineer to join the GDFT team, focusing on real-time cloud game streaming technologies.

You will contribute to low-latency video streaming across frame capture, encoding, transport and presentation, working with C/C++ on native, performance-sensitive software, including embedded devices and consoles. Collaboration with researchers and engineers is essential.

Qualifications

• Proficient in C and C++ and real-time video systems.
• Experience developing native, performance-sensitive software.
• Knowledge of AVC/HEVC/AV1 codecs.
• Understanding of low-latency video encoding concepts.
• Strong debugging, profiling and problem-solving skills.

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 frame capture, buffering, encoding, transport, decoding and presentation.
• Optimise the use and configuration of hardware video encoders, applying knowledge of codec behaviour and low-latency encoding techniques.
• Analyse existing media pipelines to identify unnecessary buffering, memory copies, synchronisation delays and other sources of latency.
• Use software and hardware instrumentation to measure system behaviour, validate hypotheses and quantify the impact of performance changes.
• Investigate and debug issues across user-space applications, system services and daemon-level components.
• Prototype and evaluate new approaches to improving streaming quality, latency and bandwidth efficiency.
• Work with engineers and researchers across the wider organisation on areas such as codec development, rate control, Forward Error Correction and emerging media technologies.
• Contribute technical findings and recommendations to design discussions, working with senior engineers to determine appropriate production solutions.
• Collaborate across teams to integrate and validate streaming technologies within PlayStation platform software.
• Attend periodic in-person workshops or team events, with travel possible a few times per year.

Skills

C/C++

Native performance software

Real-time video

Video codecs (AVC/HEVC/AV1)

Low-latency encoding

Debugging & profiling

Problem solving

System-level understanding

Experimental mindset

Technical discussions

Tools

Git

CI/CD

Job description

Sony Interactive Entertainment in London is seeking a Systems Engineer to join the GDFT team, focusing on real-time cloud game streaming technologies.

You will contribute to low-latency video streaming across frame capture, encoding, transport and presentation, working with C/C++ on native, performance-sensitive software, including embedded devices and consoles. Collaboration with researchers and engineers is essential.