Senior Software Engineer Streaming & Systems

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Senior Software Engineer - Streaming & Systems

Aliso Viejo CA

The vision:

As a Senior Software Engineer Streaming & Systems you will use AI-native engineering practices to build performance-sensitive systems across game streaming platform software infrastructure and emerging product areas. Youll work across low-level C/C Linux and Windows real-time media cloud-enabled capabilities and systems problems that are still taking shape.

What youll do:

• Explore prototype validate and ship performance-sensitive systems that improve reliability developer velocity and user experience.
• Build low-level and performance-sensitive software in C/C primarily in Linux environments.
• Work across game streaming platform software infrastructure developer tooling and cloud-enabled capabilities.
• Use AI-native workflows for code exploration implementation debugging testing documentation automation and rapid prototyping.
• Investigate ways cloud-delivered experiences can become better than local experiences.
• Turn ambiguous ideas into demos experiments measurements and production-quality implementations.
• Debug complex systems issues across performance reliability platform behavior and production-like environments.
• Collaborate with a focused engineering team and domain experts across streaming platform infrastructure and cloud.

Youre a great fit if you have:

• BS in Computer Science Computer Engineering Electrical Engineering or Senior-level software engineering experience or equivalent ownership of complex systems
• Strong C/C skills and deep Linux systems experience.
• Practical fluency with AI-native engineering workflows including coding agents LLM-assisted debugging test generation automation and rapid exploration.
• Experience in systems-oriented or performance-sensitive codebases.
• Strong product judgment systems curiosity and a focus on improving user and developer experience.
• The ability to operate in ambiguity prototype quickly validate ideas and harden successful approaches.
• Clear communication skills and a habit of raising team quality through technical judgment reusable workflows and mentoring by example.
• A habit of taking ownership communicating trade-offs clearly and keeping momentum as priorities change.

Bonus XP:

• Rust development experience.
• Windows systems experience.
• Real-time media game streaming or interactive media experience.
• Graphics GPU capture rendering or video encoding experience.
• Distributed systems cloud infrastructure or production platform experience.
• Experience helping teams adopt better AI-native engineering practices.
• Japanese language or cross-cultural collaboration experience.

You enjoy playing video games.

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