Cloud Game Streaming - Systems Engineer

As part of GDFT, you will design and optimize PlayStation’s real-time game streaming tech. You’ll work on low-latency video paths across capture, encoding, transport and presentation, improving visual quality and reducing end-to-end latency. You’ll collaborate with researchers and engineers to prototype new approaches and validate their impact. This role sits at the intersection of product engineering and R&D, offering opportunities to shape streaming on PlayStation platforms.

• flexible and hybrid work
• professional development and conference attendance
• internal hackathons
• cross-regional collaborative projects
• travel a few times per year
• supportive work environment

• Develop, optimize and maintain low-level C/C++ components in the game streaming stack
• Reduce end-to-end streaming latency across frame capture, buffering, encoding, transport and presentation
• Tune hardware encoders and apply low-latency encoding techniques
• Analyze media pipelines to identify buffering, memory copies and synchronization delays
• Use instrumentation to measure behavior and quantify performance changes
• Debug issues across user-space, system services and daemons
• Prototype and evaluate new approaches for quality, latency and bandwidth efficiency
• Collaborate with codec developers and researchers on rate control, FEC and emerging media tech
• Contribute findings to design discussions and production solutions
• Collaborate across teams to validate streaming tech within platform software
• Attend in-person workshops or team events; travel may be required

• Proficiency in C and C++
• Experience developing native, performance-sensitive software
• Experience with real-time video, media pipelines, codecs or embedded multimedia systems
• Understanding of video compression concepts and codecs (AVC, HEVC, AV1)
• Knowledge of low-latency video encoding concepts (GOP, rate control, quantisation)
• Strong debugging, profiling and performance-analysis skills
• Ability to investigate complex technical problems with instrumentation
• Comfort working in unfamiliar parts of a large system
• Experimental mindset with prototyping and evaluation
• Ability to discuss findings with senior engineers and decide on production paths

• collaboration
• problem-solving
• curiosity
• real-time video systems
• video codecs (AVC, HEVC, AV1)
• frame capture and graphics pipelines