Software Engineer (C/C++ Game Streaming)

Location: London, England, United Kingdom; hybrid work with periodic in-person workshops or team events

Company

hirify.global develops PlayStation hardware, network services, platform technologies, and gaming experiences for more than 100 million people.

What you will do

• Develop, optimize, and maintain low-level C and C++ components in the PlayStation game streaming stack.
• Reduce end-to-end latency across frame capture, buffering, encoding, transport, decoding, and presentation.
• Optimize hardware video encoder configuration using codec behavior and low-latency encoding techniques.
• Analyze media pipelines to identify buffering, memory-copy, synchronization, and system-performance bottlenecks.
• Use software and hardware instrumentation to measure behavior, validate hypotheses, and quantify performance improvements.
• Prototype and integrate streaming technologies with engineers and researchers working on codecs, rate control, Forward Error Correction, and emerging media systems.

Requirements

• Mid-level experience developing native, performance-sensitive software.
• Strong proficiency in C and C++.
• Experience with real-time video, media pipelines, codecs, or embedded multimedia systems.
• Understanding of video compression, media formats, and low-latency encoding concepts, including AVC, HEVC, or AV1.
• Strong debugging, profiling, performance-analysis, and technical problem-solving skills.
• Ability to investigate complex systems, use instrumentation, and contribute to technical design discussions.

Nice to have

• Experience evaluating video codec bitrate, quality, and latency trade-offs using metrics such as PSNR or VMAF.
• Experience with native video players, media frameworks, codec pipelines, or hardware encoders and decoders on consoles, TVs, set-top boxes, mobile devices, or embedded platforms.
• Knowledge of compressed video bitstreams, codec signaling, H.264, HEVC, AV1, or related optimization techniques.
• Experience with frame capture, graphics presentation, GPU/CPU synchronization, SIMD, vectorization, cache optimization, or multithreaded performance tuning.
• Experience with system services, daemons, firmware interfaces, Git, Jenkins, or CI/CD workflows.

Culture & Benefits

• Work on platform-wide technology development for PlayStation.
• Explore and innovate in performance-critical system areas.
• Collaborate on cross-regional projects.
• Flexible and relaxed working environment with strong support for hybrid work.
• Professional development opportunities, technical conference attendance, and internal hackathons.
• Travel may be required a few times per year for workshops or team events.