Software Engineer DevEx

Why Sony Interactive Entertainment?

Sony Interactive Entertainment isn’t just the Best Place to Play — it’s also the Best Place to Work. Sony Interactive Entertainment (SIE) is the company behind the PlayStation brand. As a subsidiary of Sony Group Corporation, we’re part of a proud legacy of innovation and excellence. SIE is a dynamic technology company, delivering cutting-edge hardware and network services to more than 100 million people and an entertainment leader, home to some of the most beloved and recognizable intellectual properties (IP) in the world. Our role at SIE is to create and nurture the experiences under the PlayStation brand, a name synonymous with entertainment excellence and creativity.

Software Engineer II DevEx 

Location: San Mateo (Hybrid)

DevEx team builds simulation tools that help PlayStation engineers develop, test, and troubleshoot software in a reliable, repeatable environment. These tools shorten feedback cycles, support earlier validation, and make complex development workflows easier to use. 

As a Software Engineer II, you will design and deliver capabilities that improve the accuracy, reliability, and usability of our simulation environment. Your work will include simulator functionality, integration with development and test workflows, automation, diagnostics, and the tools engineers use to configure and interact with the environment. 

You will own well-defined features from design through rollout, collaborate with engineering and quality teams across PlayStation, and turn recurring development and testing challenges into reliable, maintainable product improvements. 

What you’ll 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 that reproduce important system behaviors in a development environment. 

• Improve core developer workflows such as environment setup, simulator startup, configuration, input handling, debugging, log collection, and failure recovery. 

• Improve and contribute to build, dependency, packaging, and release workflows for the simulation platform using modern build tools, dependency managers, containers, and CI/CD pipelines. 

• Create unit, integration, and end-to-end tests that catch regressions early and move high-value validation into continuous integration. 

• Diagnose failures that cross process, library, container, and platform boundaries; produce clear root-cause analysis and durable fixes.