Senior Backend Engineer

What Makes Us Epic?

At the core of Epic’s success are talented, passionate people. Epic prides itself on creating a collaborative, welcoming, and creative environment. Whether it’s building award-winning games or crafting engine technology that enables others to make visually stunning interactive experiences, we’re always innovating.

Engineering at Epic Games Services

What We Do

Driving the plug-in power behind Unreal Engine 5, we bridge connections for licensees and our own internal game teams to online services. This allows games like Fortnite to utilize a combination of platform online services as well as Epic’s own online services to build cross-platform online features. Login, parties, voice chat, matchmaking, purchasing, cloud storage, and analytics are just a few examples of online features that our Online Game Services team helps games utilize.

What You'll Do

As a member of our team, you will craft highly available, high throughput, low latency services at scale, synchronous and asynchronous services, persistent connection services, and a variety of other systems. You'll build services to manage data and workflows for developers to self-service distributing their games as well as internal tools and integrations for Epic to interact with these products.

In this role, you will:

• Get things done: Epic empowers engineers to assess a challenge, craft a solution, and implement.
• Write distributed systems to handle large-scale challenges using Java, Scala.
• Work with public cloud infrastructure (AWS) to facilitate a fast-moving ecosystem.
• Own the entire lifecycle of services, including live operations and deployment.
• Craft solutions using modern SQL and nonrelational databases (MongoDB, Dynamo, Redis).
• Work together with both upstream and downstream service owners, producers, and other cloud, infrastructure, and embedded DevOps engineers to ship solutions.
• Own the outcome - Be accountable for the solutions you build and flexible around the ambiguity of the problem space.

What We're Looking For

• Passion for crafting secure, scalable, and highly available applications.
• Experience architecting and leading innovative, complex software projects.
• Experience collaborating with a variety of strategic stakeholders to bring a product vision to life.
• Deep knowledge of Java or Node.
• Experience in collaborating with design teams to design, document and build design systems for scalable and consistent user interfaces.
• Experience with cloud technologies (AWS).
• Understanding of relational and NoSQL databases.
• Experience working in an Agile / Scrum environment.

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.