What We Do

We enable Epic’s engineering teams to build, deploy, manage, and operate services that are used by more than half a billion players around the world. Our mission is to provide world class tools and platforms to improve the experience of our developers and make it efficient, easier, faster, and safer to build, operate, and scale their applications. Epic operates at a massive scale as one of the largest cloud computing users in the world.

What You'll Do

Epic Games is seeking an Engineering Lead to join our team. This role will drive the technical vision for our internal service management platform (based on Backstage), which enables our engineers to create, maintain, and operate their services at a global scale. This opportunity is to help us build, extend, and operate the platform to improve the engineering experience at Epic.

The Engineering Lead will manage and support a team of experienced software engineers to create and maintain features that will delight our developers and teams. A successful candidate will be able to work across multi-disciplinary teams to achieve their goals, while fostering an open and supportive culture in which everyone can be successful as their authentic selves.

In this role, you will

• Directly manage engineers, providing support, mentorship, constructive feedback, and career development guidance.
• Lead the team in developing features and operating the developer portal.
• Oversee technical designs and implementation of robust, highly scalable solutions.
• Define, deliver, and make ongoing improvements of SLAs for the platform environment – system health and monitoring, reporting and response, on-call resolution.
• Partner with stakeholders to establish clear priorities and define expectations which translate to a scope of work that the team can effectively deliver on.
• Maintain transparent communication with a focus on fostering trust with internal stakeholders and external partners.

What we're looking for

• 7+ years software engineering industry experience developing online systems.
• 4+ years of experience in an engineering management role.
• Proven track record of guiding and developing teams to deliver solutions, leveraging industry best practices and standards.
• Proven track record of guiding a team on operational excellence for online services, including system health, monitoring and troubleshooting, and incident response.
• Ability to manage a team roadmap and update stakeholders throughout the lifecycle of a project.
• Familiarity with design and operation of Typescript, Nodejs, and Go services.

Nice to have skills

• Experience with cloud computing platforms (AWS, GCP, Azure).
• Experience with the Backstage ecosystem.
• Experience building an internal developer focused portal.
• Experience implementing Software Development Lifecycle requirements.
• Experience implementing data compliance requirements.
  

EPIC JOB + EPIC BENEFITS = EPIC LIFE

Our intent is to cover all things that are medically necessary and improve the quality of life. We pay 100% of the premiums for both you and your dependents. Our coverage includes Medical, Dental, a Vision HRA, Long Term Disability, Life Insurance & a 401k with competitive match. We also offer a robust mental well-being program through Modern Health, which provides free therapy and coaching for employees & dependents.

Throughout the year we celebrate our employees with events and company-wide paid breaks. We offer unlimited PTO and sick time and recognize individuals for 7 years of employment with a paid sabbatical.

Pay Transparency Information

The expected annual base pay range(s) for this position are detailed below. Each base pay range is relevant only for individuals who are residents of or will be expected to work within the specified locale. Compensation varies based on a variety of factors, which include (but aren’t limited to) things such as skills and competencies, qualifications, knowledge, and experience. In addition to base pay, most employees are eligible to participate in Epic’s generous benefit plans and discretionary incentive programs (subject to the terms of those plans or programs).

What We Do

Unreal-powered projects have been on the bleeding edge of real-time entertainment for over 20 years. Our team of engineering experts are always innovating to improve the tools and technology that empower content developers worldwide.

What You'll Do

We're looking for a Lead Gameplay Engine Programmer to lead a team who will build the systems that Unreal Engine customers build their games on. You and your team will also be improving and supporting existing gameplay systems such as Blueprint, Gameplay Ability System, Enhanced Input, Game Features and Modular Gameplay plugins. You should have experience leading a team of programmers and setting them up for success.

You should have a broad knowledge of modern game engine technology, as well as a good sense of trade-offs between performance, memory usage, and ease-of-implementation. Additionally, you should have experience working closely with developers in all disciplines, not just other programmers. Your team’s goal is to empower Unreal Engine users, including Fortnite, to make world-class experiences using the systems that you create, through close iteration with both our internal game teams and external engine customers.

In this role, you will

• Lead, architect and guide gameplay system development to help Unreal Engine grow to fit the needs of current and future games and applications.
• Scope and prioritize work in close collaboration with the team, making trade-offs when they’re appropriate.
• Maintain long term feature roadmaps that align with Unreal Engine goals.
• Work closely with other teams, leads and production across different projects to align feature work to help everyone succeed.
• Work with artists, animators, and designers to understand their needs when designing and developing engine systems.
• Optimize memory and performance, and fix common problems in systems that have to scale from high-end to mobile systems.
• Be a go-to expert resource for supporting gameplay systems in internal projects such as Fortnite, and answer questions from external Unreal Engine customers.

What we're looking for

• Someone with excellent leadership skills, including mentorship, planning technical roadmaps, making trade-offs, and prioritization.
• Excellent C++ skills, with a familiarity of scripting systems like Blueprint, Lua, Python, etc.
• Experience in a broad range of programming areas on shipping games or real-time visualization systems, with special attention given to low-level code and deep optimization.
• Well-versed in software engineering principles, especially API design.
• Experience in a cross-disciplinary development environment, with excellent cross-discipline communication skills. You should be able to communicate and explain trade-offs to non-programmers.
• Familiarity with an existing game engine with an understanding of game engine and editor concepts.
• Familiarity with development tools and profiling on modern systems, including PC, console, and mobile.
• Experience developing in a large codebase at a fast pace, making trade-offs between usability, performance, and power.

Pay Transparency Information

The expected annual base pay range(s) for this position are detailed below. Each base pay range is relevant only for individuals who are residents of or will be expected to work within the specified locale. Compensation varies based on a variety of factors, which include (but aren’t limited to) things such as skills and competencies, qualifications, knowledge, and experience. In addition to base pay, most employees are eligible to participate in Epic’s generous benefit plans and discretionary incentive programs (subject to the terms of those plans or programs).

EPIC JOB + EPIC BENEFITS = EPIC LIFE

Our intent is to cover all things that are medically necessary and improve the quality of life. We pay 100% of the premiums for both you and your dependents. Our coverage includes Medical, Dental, a Vision HRA, Long Term Disability, Life Insurance & a 401k with competitive match. We also offer a robust mental well-being program through Modern Health, which provides free therapy and coaching for employees & dependents.

Throughout the year we celebrate our employees with events and company-wide paid breaks. We offer unlimited PTO and sick time and recognize individuals for 7 years of employment with a paid sabbatical.

What We Do

We enable Epic’s online services teams to build, deploy, and manage services that are used by more than half a billion players around the world. Our mission is to provide world class tools and platforms to improve the experience of our developers and make it easier, faster, and safer to build, operate, and scale their applications. We operate at massive scale as one of the largest cloud computing users in the world.

What You'll Do

Epic Games is looking for a Full-Stack Engineer to join the Service Management Platform team to work directly on our service management platform (based on Backstage) and the backend services that support it. A Full-Stack role would mean working and owning the full-service delivery process of apps - configuring development tools, setting up CI/CD pipelines and automated testing, provisioning AWS resources, configuring monitoring tools, communicating with other teams, and planning the integration of internal systems into the platform using React.

In this role, you will

• Build features that ensure a convenient and consistent UI/UX interface for customers and partners
• Improve and maintain an existing codebase
• Develop microservices to support platform-specific functionality
• Communicate with owners of Epic services to plan service integrations into the platform
• Ensure monitoring coverage of applications
• Enhance CI/CD pipeline for applications to make it fast and replicable
• Develop internal dashboard tooling with React

What we're looking for

• Experience with Node.js, TypeScript, and frontend frameworks such as React
• Understanding of authorization and authentication mechanisms: OAuth, OpenID, JWTs
• Knowledge of Javascript-oriented build tooling (webpack, ESLint, etc.), CI tools (GitHub Actions), IaC frameworks (Terraform), and cloud deployment stacks (Kubernetes, AWS)
• Experience working with relational database-based services (Postgres)
• Experience working with NoSQL database-based services (Elasticsearch) 
• User-focused, solution oriented, and innovative–these traits equal success at Epic and influence everything we do
• Testing-oriented mindset: unit, integration, and end-to-end
• Focus on service maintainability, automation, and security
• Experience with evangelizing and operating Backstage in a large enterprise environment.

Pay Transparency Information

The expected annual base pay range(s) for this position are detailed below. Each base pay range is relevant only for individuals who are residents of or will be expected to work within the specified locale. Compensation varies based on a variety of factors, which include (but aren’t limited to) things such as skills and competencies, qualifications, knowledge, and experience. In addition to base pay, most employees are eligible to participate in Epic’s generous benefit plans and discretionary incentive programs (subject to the terms of those plans or programs).

EPIC JOB + EPIC BENEFITS = EPIC LIFE

Our intent is to cover all things that are medically necessary and improve the quality of life. We pay 100% of the premiums for both you and your dependents. Our coverage includes Medical, Dental, a Vision HRA, Long Term Disability, Life Insurance & a 401k with competitive match. We also offer a robust mental well-being program through Modern Health, which provides free therapy and coaching for employees & dependents.

Throughout the year we celebrate our employees with events and company-wide paid breaks. We offer unlimited PTO and sick time and recognize individuals for 7 years of employment with a paid sabbatical.

What We Do

Unreal-powered projects have been on the bleeding edge of real-time entertainment for over 20 years. Our team of engineering experts are always innovating to improve the tools and technology that empower content developers worldwide.

What You'll Do

Epic Games is searching for an experienced Senior Engine Programmer to join our Foundation Core team. In this role, you’ll develop low-level tools and systems that all UE users use to build and ship their games, and pipelines that Epic uses internally to ship the Unreal Engine and games like Fortnite. The ideal candidate will have a love of practical problem solving and an affinity for improving the day-to-day workflow of other developers.

In this role, you will

• Develop custom tools and pipelines for other engineers and content creators
• Optimize iteration times, and improve existing systems for performance, memory usage, and user experience
• Establish test workflows to validate performance improvements and prevent regressions
• Support external customers by answering their technical requests and questions

What we're looking for

• Excellent C++ knowledge
• Comfortable writing multithreaded code and reasoning about dependency graphs and content pipeline for large games
• Experience profiling and optimizing a large codebase
• Demonstrated ability to reason about large, interacting systems from the macro-level to the micro-level
• Someone who is passionate, solution-oriented, proactive and autonomous.

Pay Transparency Information

The expected annual base pay range(s) for this position are detailed below. Each base pay range is relevant only for individuals who are residents of or will be expected to work within the specified locale. Compensation varies based on a variety of factors, which include (but aren’t limited to) things such as skills and competencies, qualifications, knowledge, and experience. In addition to base pay, most employees are eligible to participate in Epic’s generous benefit plans and discretionary incentive programs (subject to the terms of those plans or programs).

EPIC JOB + EPIC BENEFITS = EPIC LIFE

Our intent is to cover all things that are medically necessary and improve the quality of life. We pay 100% of the premiums for both you and your dependents. Our coverage includes Medical, Dental, a Vision HRA, Long Term Disability, Life Insurance & a 401k with competitive match. We also offer a robust mental well-being program through Modern Health, which provides free therapy and coaching for employees & dependents.

Throughout the year we celebrate our employees with events and company-wide paid breaks. We offer unlimited PTO and sick time and recognize individuals for 7 years of employment with a paid sabbatical.

What We Do

Unreal projects have been leading the pack of real-time entertainment with our constantly growing team of engineering experts.  We’re always improving on the tools and technology that empower content developers worldwide.

What You’ll Do 

We’re looking for a User Interface (UI) Programmer who is passionate about games and well-versed in C++, UI development, gameplay, and console development. In this role, you'll have an opportunity to work across UI, gameplay, and platforms to build features highly impactful to users.

In this role, you will

• Work closely with art and design leads to ensure that UI meets aesthetic and functional requirements
• Attending to every detail, especially with regard to compliance, layout, and design
• Architecting, planning, and implementing new UI systems
• Optimizing and fixing bugs in existing UI systems
• Contributing ideas toward all aspects of the game’s production and development
• Writing robust, maintainable code
• Working collaboratively with the team to ensure that UI meets aesthetic and functional requirements
• Work closely with artists, designers, and other programmers on cutting-edge features that support player experiences across Fortnite

What we’re looking for

• Exceptional C++ programming skills  
• Experience developing UI features for games across multiple platforms  
• Knowledge of networking, rendering, and other systems impacting quality and performance  
• General experience with web services  
• Unreal Engine development experience  
• Passion for games and great user experiences  
• Keen analytical mind and mature problem-solving skills

EPIC JOB + EPIC BENEFITS = EPIC LIFE

Our intent is to cover all things that are medically necessary and improve the quality of life. We pay 100% of the premiums for both you and your dependents. Our coverage includes Medical, Dental, a Vision HRA, Long Term Disability, Life Insurance & a 401k with competitive match. We also offer a robust mental well-being program through Modern Health, which provides free therapy and coaching for employees & dependents. 

Throughout the year we celebrate our employees with events and company-wide paid breaks. We offer unlimited PTO and sick time and recognize individuals for 7 years of employment with a paid sabbatical.