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Being Epic means being a part of a team that continually strives to do right by our community and users. We’re constantly innovating to raise the bar of engine and game development.
ENGINEERING - EPIC GAMES SERVICESWhat 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
Matchmaking is at the heart of Epic’s first party successes, bringing players together across the many experiences such as Battle Royale, Lego, Festival, and Rocket Racing. We own and foster relationships with both our external partners and our own internal game teams. As a Senior Backend Engineer, you’ll join our mission in delivering free, cross-platform game services for all developers. This role will help in building the future of matchmaking within Epic Online Services that powers games, such as Fortnite, Rocket League and Fall Guys. Epic believes in an open, integrated gaming community and this opportunity is to help us build just that on a global scale. As a member of our team, you will lead us to craft highly available, high throughput, low latency services at scale, synchronous and asynchronous services, persistent connection services, and a variety of other systems. These will all help to power our internal products and enable external development teams all over the world. The Matchmaking team is a collaborative environment and you will help to foster an open, supportive culture in which everyone can be successful and their authentic self. Learn more at https://dev.epicgames.com/
In this role, you will
- Assess challenges, design solutions, and implement them
- Oversee technical design and drive implementation of robust online solutions
- Write and maintain distributed systems to handle large scale challenges
- Own the entire lifecycle of services, including live operations and deployment
- Collaborate with service owners, producers and other cloud, infrastructure and embedded QA/DevOps engineers to ship quality software
- Deliver ongoing, transparent communication with a focus on expectations, fostering trust with internal stakeholders and external partners
- Provide technical leadership to guide the team and wider organization to deliver performant, maintainable and well-documented services
What we're looking for
- 5+ years software engineering industry experience developing online systems
- Experience working with large scale, distributed systems (AWS, Redis, Kafka, Kubernetes, Java, Spring)
- Proven track record of growing, guiding, and mentoring team members
- Proven track record of operating production online services at scale, leveraging industry best practices and standards
- Experience & comfort working in an ambiguous and sometimes chaotic environment
- Excellent communication skills including the ability to provide, solicit and accept feedback constructively
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.
Epic Games spans across 25 countries with 46 studios and 4,500+ employees globally. For over 25 years, we've been making award-winning games and engine technology that empowers others to make visually stunning games and 3D content that bring environments to life like never before. Epic's award-winning Unreal Engine technology not only provides game developers the ability to build high-fidelity, interactive experiences for PC, console, mobile, and VR, it is also a tool being embraced by content creators across a variety of industries such as media and entertainment, automotive, and architectural design. As we continue to build our Engine technology and develop remarkable games, we strive to build teams of world-class talent.
Like what you hear? Come be a part of something Epic!
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What We Do
Founded in 1991, Epic Games is an American company founded by CEO Tim Sweeney. The company is headquartered in Cary, North Carolina, and has more than 50 offices worldwide. Today Epic is a leading interactive entertainment company and provider of 3D engine technology. Epic operates one of the world’s largest games, Fortnite, and Epic has over 600 million accounts with over 5 billion friend connections across Fortnite, Fall Guys, Rocket League, and the Epic Games Store. Epic also develops Unreal Engine, which powers the world’s leading games and is also adopted across industries such as film and television, architecture, automotive, manufacturing, and simulation. Through Unreal Engine, Epic Games Store, and Epic Online Services, Epic provides an end-to-end digital ecosystem for developers and creators to build, distribute, and operate games and other content.
