Staff Gameplay Systems & Performance Engineer - Remote

Sony Interactive Entertainment Inc.; United States; Remote; USD 172,000 - 259,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Medical benefits

Dental benefits

Vision benefits

401(k) matching

Paid time off

Wellness program

Employee discounts

Job summary

Sony Interactive Entertainment Inc. is seeking a Staff Gameplay Engineer - Systems & Performance. You will design and evolve foundational gameplay systems, tools, and shared infrastructure in C++ on Unreal Engine 5, guiding performance optimization across the team.

The role emphasizes defining architecture, working with content creators, and driving a performance-conscious culture while collaborating across disciplines to support a new franchise at PlayStation.

Qualifications

• Strong C++ skills and the ability to design, implement, debug, profile, and maintain production quality systems in a large codebase.
• Experience architecting and evolving large-scale gameplay systems, frameworks, or shared gameplay infrastructure.
• Deep experience profiling and optimizing real-time games across CPU, memory, networking, and other bottlenecks.
• Experience developing with Unreal Engine.
• Strong communication and collaboration skills to influence technical decisions.

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 and scale architecture with simulation and networking models.
• Own game performance and optimization: profile, identify bottlenecks, and implement optimizations in the codebase.
• Establish performance practices, metrics, budgets, profiling workflows, and tools for runtime cost understanding.

Skills

C++ proficiency

Unreal Engine experience

Performance profiling

Large-scale gameplay systems

Communication skills

Tools

Unreal Engine

Job description

Sony Interactive Entertainment Inc. is seeking a Staff Gameplay Engineer - Systems & Performance. You will design and evolve foundational gameplay systems, tools, and shared infrastructure in C++ on Unreal Engine 5, guiding performance optimization across the team.

The role emphasizes defining architecture, working with content creators, and driving a performance-conscious culture while collaborating across disciplines to support a new franchise at PlayStation.