Senior Streaming Systems Engineer (C/C++, Linux, AI‑Native)

PlayStation; Aliso Viejo (CA); On-site; USD 177,000 - 266,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Benefits package

Employee discounts

Bonus potential

Job summary

Sony Interactive Entertainment in Aliso Viejo, CA seeks a Senior Software Engineer focused on Streaming & Systems. You will develop performance-sensitive systems in C/C++ on Linux, spanning game streaming, platform software, and cloud-enabled infrastructure.

Apply AI-native workflows for debugging, automation, and rapid prototyping while collaborating with streaming, platform, and cloud teams. The role emphasizes ownership, fast prototyping in ambiguous areas, and delivering production‑quality

Qualifications

• 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.

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.

Skills

BS in Computer Science, Computer or EE

C/C++

AI-native workflows

systems-oriented

product judgment

ambiguity tolerance

communication skills

ownership

Education

BS in Computer Science/Computer Engineering/Electrical Engineering or equivalent

Job description

Sony Interactive Entertainment in Aliso Viejo, CA seeks a Senior Software Engineer focused on Streaming & Systems. You will develop performance-sensitive systems in C/C++ on Linux, spanning game streaming, platform software, and cloud-enabled infrastructure.

Apply AI-native workflows for debugging, automation, and rapid prototyping while collaborating with streaming, platform, and cloud teams. The role emphasizes ownership, fast prototyping in ambiguous areas, and delivering production‑quality