Job Summary
Job Description
- 3+ years experience in gaming industry
- Strong understanding of client/server systems
- Experience with PySpark and billions of rows of data
- Python analytics ecosystem experience
- Data modeling and architecture practices
- Experience instrumenting data and ensuring quality
- Streaming development experience
- Familiarity with Github, Airflow
- 100% premium coverage for medical, dental, vision
- Long-term disability, life insurance, 401k match
- Mental well-being program
- Unlimited PTO and sick time
- Paid sabbatical after 7 years
6 skills required
Job Details
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.
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.
ANALYTICS
What We Do
Our Data & Analytics teams build powerful stories and visuals that inform the games we make, the technology we develop, and business decisions that drive Epic.
What You'll Do
You will primarily drive core analytics, data modeling practices, foundational business reporting, and insights layers for all teams responsible for Fortnite's technical performance. You’ll work closely with technical teams to ensure we provide thoughtful reporting layers that are comprehensive and consistent across other reporting layers. You will create thoughtful data models to measure performance changes across different dimensions of hardware specs and patch updates. These models will enable you to investigate issues as they arise, proactively detect when performance is degrading, and report on how optimizations have impacted our players’ engagement with our products.
In this role, you will
- Build foundational data models to represent our client and server performance in ways that pinpoint points of failure in our systems and correlate performance changes and the impact on our players’ experiences
- Report on how game performance has changed over time and work closely with our observability team to unify real-time and historic data
- Collaborate closely with Epic’s performance teams to enable them to centralize and scale their analytics stack
What we're looking for
- 3+ years of industry or relevant experience, with proven interest in and knowledge of live service video games
- Strong understanding of technical aspects of client and server systems and how to utilize high frequency (frame-by-frame) data to report on these systems
- Experience writing efficient and scalable queries over billions of rows in a distributed computing environment with PySpark; it is a plus if you’re comfortable in streaming
- Development experience in Python analytics ecosystem
- Thoughtful conceptual data modeling and data architecture practices
- Experience working with development teams to instrument data and ensure continued data quality
- Familiarity with supporting operational processes including code version control (Github or similar) and orchestration (Airflow)
- Passion for the gaming industry and turning data into insights into actions
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.
ABOUT US
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!
Epic Games deeply values diverse teams and an inclusive work culture, and we are proud to be an Equal Opportunity employer. Learn more about our Equal Employment Opportunity (EEO) Policy .
Note to Recruitment Agencies: Epic does not accept any unsolicited resumes or approaches from any unauthorized third party (including recruitment or placement agencies) (i.e., a third party with whom we do not have a negotiated and validly executed agreement). We will not pay any fees to any unauthorized third party. Further details on these matters can be found .
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