Software Engineer II DevEx

The role

You will design and deliver capabilities to improve the accuracy, reliability, and usability of a simulation environment. This includes simulator functionality, integration with workflows, automation, and diagnostics.

What you will do

• Design, implement, test, and document production-quality C++ features for simulation and developer tooling.
• Build and maintain software abstractions, simulated services, and client/server integrations.
• Improve core developer workflows such as environment setup, simulator startup, and debugging.
• Improve and contribute to build, dependency, packaging, and release workflows.
• Create unit, integration, and end-to-end tests.
• Diagnose failures that cross process, library, container, and platform boundaries.
• Contribute to shared libraries and developer-facing interfaces.
• Write architecture notes, setup guides, troubleshooting steps, and release documentation.
• Partner with engineers, QE, product owners, and adjacent platform teams.
• Participate in design and code reviews.

Required qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Computer Engineering, or a related field, or equivalent practical experience.
• 4+ years of professional software-development experience building systems software, platform software, developer tools, infrastructure or similar technical products.
• Strong modern C++ development skills.
• Practical experience developing and debugging software on Linux.
• Experience debugging multi-process, client/server, or platform-integrated software using logs, traces, debuggers, and reproducible test cases.
• Experience building automated tests and integrating them into CI/CD workflows.
• Working knowledge of build systems, dependency management, source control, and release practices for a multi-repository codebase.
• Ability to take a defined problem from technical design through implementation, validation, documentation, and rollout.
• Clear written and verbal communication.

Nice to have

• Experience with simulation, emulation, hardware abstraction, service virtualization, or comparable development environments.
• Experience with containerized development using Docker, dev containers, WSL, or comparable tooling.
• Familiarity with CMake, package-management tools, CI systems, collaborative source-control workflows, or cross-platform build toolchains.
• Experience designing or integrating IPC, client/server API’s, shared libraries, or SDK’s.
• Experience developing complex platform software or software for resource-constrained environments.
• Experience supporting developer tools as a product.
• Working knowledge of one or more additional languages such as Python, Rust, JavaScript, or TypeScript.

Benefits

• medical
• dental
• vision
• matching 401(k)
• paid time off
• wellness program
• employee discounts for Sony products
• may be eligible for a bonus package

Before you apply

• Sony Interactive Entertainment conducts background checks at the offer stage for all new employees.

About the company

Sony Interactive Entertainment (SIE) is the company behind the PlayStation brand. It is a dynamic technology company and an entertainment leader.