Senior Compiler Engineer

Play Station isn’t just the Best Place to Play, it’s also the Best Place to Work. Today we are recognized as a global leader in entertainment producing the Play Station family of products and services including Play Station 5, Play Station 4, Play Station VR, Play Station Plus and acclaimed Play Station software titles from Play Station Studios and more.

Play Station also strives to create an inclusive environment that empowers employees and embraces diversity. We welcome and encourage everyone who has a passion and curiosity for innovation, technology and play to explore our open positions and join our growing global team.

The Play Station brand falls under Sony Interactive Entertainment, a wholly‑owned subsidiary of Sony Group Corporation.

We are looking for a senior software engineer to join our CPU Toolchain team to work on Sony’s Clang / LLVM‑based compiler and linker targeting the Play Station platforms. You will join an existing global team and contribute to toolchain enhancements that improve developer experience—such as better compile‑time performance, debuggability, robustness and diagnostics.

Responsibilities:

• Identifying and isolating bottlenecks/pain‑points in the developer experience of using the Play Station toolchain
• Collaborating with partners (game studios, middleware vendors), internal teams and the open‑source community to find solutions
• Prototyping and evaluating systems to improve developer experience
• Discovering, clarifying and managing requirements throughout the development process
• Engaging with the open‑source community to develop solutions that are beneficial to our customers and the broader OSS community
• Contributing to other compiler team duties of responding to partner issue reports, general maintenance and code review
• Mentoring and encouraging junior developers and advocating team‑wide improvements

Required:

• 7 years of experience with C/C++ and developing in a native environment
• 5 to 10 years of experience in a professional software development environment
• Familiarity and/or development history with LLVM or similarly complex compiler technology
• Strong communication skills and willingness to address seemingly insoluble problems
• Experience with profilers, debuggers, linkers and other components used for native application development
• Experience with open‑source development workflows, public discussions on mailing lists and code reviews

Nice to have:

• Familiarity with the C specification
• Experience in game development or a similar environment (high‑performance large codebases)
• Knowledge of AMD
  64 microarchitectures and their performance characteristics
• A desire to improve the quality‑of‑life of software developers

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We strive to create an inclusive environment, empower employees and embrace diversity. We encourage everyone to apply.

Play Station is a Fair Chance employer, and qualified applicants with arrest and conviction records will be considered for employment.

Required Experience: Senior IC

Key Skills
APIs, C/C++, Computer Graphics, Go, React, Redux, Node.js, AWS, Library Services, Assembly, Graph

QL, High Voltage
Employment Type: Full Time
Experience: Years
Vacancy: 1