Software Engineer II (DevEx)

Location: San Mateo, United States (hybrid)

Base salary: $163,700–$245,500 USD per year

Company

hirify.global develops PlayStation hardware, network services, and entertainment experiences for 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, debugging, logging, input handling, 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 integration contracts, architecture, code reviews, documentation, and feature rollouts.

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 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, 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, CMake, package-management tools, CI systems, or cross-platform build toolchains.
• Experience with IPC, client/server APIs, shared libraries, SDKs, complex platform software, or resource-constrained environments.
• Experience treating developer tools as a product and improving diagnostics, onboarding, and developer feedback loops.
• Knowledge of Python, Rust, JavaScript, or TypeScript for tooling or platform development.

Culture & Benefits

• Hybrid working policy.
• 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.
• Background checks are conducted at the offer stage.