Software Engineer II DevEx (C++)

Location: San Mateo, United States (hybrid)

Base pay: $163,700–$245,500 USD annually

Company

hirify.global is the gaming and entertainment brand of Sony Interactive Entertainment, delivering hardware, network services, and interactive experiences to more than 100 million people.

What you will do

• Design, implement, test, and document production-quality C++ features for simulation and developer tooling.
• Build simulated services, software abstractions, and client/server integrations that reproduce system behavior in development environments.
• Improve developer workflows for environment setup, simulator startup, configuration, input handling, debugging, logging, and failure recovery.
• Enhance build, dependency, packaging, release, and CI/CD workflows for the simulation platform.
• Create unit, integration, and end-to-end tests, diagnose cross-process and cross-platform failures, and deliver durable fixes.
• Collaborate with engineering, quality, product, and platform teams on interfaces, architecture, documentation, reviews, and complete feature delivery.

Requirements

• Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Computer Engineering, or a related field, or equivalent practical experience.
• 4+ years of professional experience building systems software, platform software, developer tools, infrastructure, or similar products.
• Strong modern C++ skills and practical experience developing and debugging 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.
• Knowledge of build systems, dependency management, source control, release practices, technical design, documentation, and cross-team communication.

Nice to have

• Experience with simulation, emulation, hardware abstraction, service virtualization, or comparable development environments.
• Experience with Docker, dev containers, WSL, or similar containerized development tools.
• Familiarity with CMake, package-management tools, CI systems, collaborative source-control workflows, or cross-platform build toolchains.
• Experience with IPC, client/server APIs, shared libraries, SDKs, complex platform software, or resource-constrained environments.
• Experience improving developer tools through feedback, friction measurement, diagnostics, and onboarding improvements; knowledge of Python, Rust, JavaScript, or TypeScript.

Culture & Benefits

• Hybrid work policy based in San Mateo.
• Medical, dental, and vision coverage.
• Matching 401(k), paid time off, and wellness program.
• Employee discounts on Sony products.
• Potential eligibility for a bonus package.

Hiring process

• Background checks are conducted at the offer stage and may include criminal background checks for some roles.
• Employment is subject to processing personal information for these checks.