Low-Latency Cloud Game Streaming Engineer

PlayStation Global; Greater London; Híbrido; GBP 65.000 - 90.000; Jornada completa

Descripción de la vacante

Sony Interactive Entertainment’s GDFT team seeks a mid‑level engineer to design and optimise PlayStation’s real‑time streaming technologies, focusing on low‑latency video pipelines and native C/C++ components across devices.

You will work with cross‑functional teams to reduce latency, improve video quality, and explore new approaches, including hardware encoders and rate control, in a hybrid environment.

Formación

• Strong proficiency in C/C++ for performance‑critical software.
• Experience with real‑time video, media pipelines, codecs or embedded multimedia systems.

Responsabilidades

• Develop, optimise and maintain low‑level C/C++ components within PlayStation’s streaming stack.
• Reduce end‑to‑end streaming latency across capture, encoding, transport and presentation.
• Analyse media pipelines to identify buffering and memory copy issues.
• Instrument, measure and validate system behaviour to quantify performance changes.
• Debug issues across user‑space, services and daemon components.
• Prototype and evaluate new approaches to improve streaming quality and bandwidth efficiency.

Conocimientos

C and C++

Real-time video

Embedded multimedia

Debugging & profiling

Git & CI/CD

Descripción del empleo

Sony Interactive Entertainment’s GDFT team seeks a mid‑level engineer to design and optimise PlayStation’s real‑time streaming technologies, focusing on low‑latency video pipelines and native C/C++ components across devices.

You will work with cross‑functional teams to reduce latency, improve video quality, and explore new approaches, including hardware encoders and rate control, in a hybrid environment.