Staff Gameplay Engineer - Systems & Performance (Remote)

Team LFG; United States; Remote; USD 172,000 - 259,000; Full time

Job summary

Sony Interactive Entertainment is hiring a Staff Gameplay Engineer – Systems & Performance to lead foundational gameplay systems and optimize performance in Unreal Engine 5. You will shape architecture, frameworks, and shared systems used by gameplay engineers and content creators.

You’ll drive technical direction for performance, collaborate across disciplines, and help scale the game’s simulation and networking model while delivering high-quality, production-ready tooling and workflows.

Qualifications

• Strong C++ and production-quality systems in a large codebase.
• Experience architecting large-scale gameplay systems beyond individual features.
• Deep profiling and optimizing real-time games (CPU, memory, networking).
• Experience developing with Unreal Engine.
• Excellent communication and collaboration across disciplines.

Responsibilities

• Design, build and maintain production-quality foundational gameplay systems, frameworks, workflows, and tools in C++ on Unreal Engine 5
• Provide technical direction for shared gameplay systems, working closely with engineers and content creators to evolve their architecture, identify risks early, and ensure they scale with our simulation and networking model
• Own game performance and optimization: profile the game, identify systemic bottlenecks and performance risks, establish priorities, and implement optimizations directly in the codebase
• Establish performance practices, metrics, budgets, profiling workflows, and tools that enable engineers and content creators to understand the runtime cost of their work and optimize their own systems

Skills

Strong C++ skills

Large-scale gameplay systems

Real-time profiling & optimization

Unreal Engine development

Cross-disciplinary collaboration

Tools

Unreal Engine

Job description

Sony Interactive Entertainment is hiring a Staff Gameplay Engineer – Systems & Performance to lead foundational gameplay systems and optimize performance in Unreal Engine 5. You will shape architecture, frameworks, and shared systems used by gameplay engineers and content creators.

You’ll drive technical direction for performance, collaborate across disciplines, and help scale the game’s simulation and networking model while delivering high-quality, production-ready tooling and workflows.