Development Manager, LiveOps

5 Months ago • All levels • Systems Design

About the job

Job Description

Lead LiveOps team, build systems, and manage engineers to ensure reliable platforms & games. Must have experience in large-scale system design, live operations, and software development.
Must have:
  • Live Operations
  • System Design
  • Software Development
  • Team Management
Good to have:
  • Incident Management
  • Problem Management
  • Change Management
  • Multi-National Compliance
Perks:
  • Full Benefits
  • Mental Well-being Program
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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.

LIVEOPS

What We Do

The Epic LiveOps team provides the best possible experience for our players. We dive deep into the data to understand player needs, minimize disruption, and manage Epic's incident response process.

What You'll Do

Epic Games is hiring a Technical Leader for LiveOps focused on building teams and systems that enable us to improve reliability for our platforms, games and online services. This is a multidisciplinary leadership role where you will lead and/or work directly with other leads, producers, program/product managers, developers, and SREs to achieve meaningful outcomes for the organization. What We Do Epic’s LiveOps team is dedicated to advocating for the experience of players, customers, and employees for Epic Games. We build services, processes, and tools to improve the reliability and resilience of our platforms, products, and internal systems. LiveOps also serves as first responders to incidents that might harm our customer experience. LiveOps' scope is company-wide and concerns every technology element at Epic. What You'll Do As the Tech Lead of Epic's LiveOps team you'll build the structures necessary to ensure we are advancing how we monitor and analyze our production systems, games, and back office systems, evolving how the company responds to critical live issues, and improving the state of our games and services to our internal stakeholders. Working closely with our game, publishing, online teams, and more, this role is in the center of our live services operating Fortnite and other Epic products. We’re looking for an individual who excels in critical service operational maturity, has superb communication abilities, and is comfortable managing the resolution of issues in a complex online ecosystem. The ideal candidate is passionate about working in games and has a long history of working with large-scale systems, live operations teams, and software development in a range of technical environments.

In this role, you will

  • Deliver and maintain dependable tooling, automation, integrations, and processes underpinning LiveOps related functions across the company and subsidiaries, encompassing Incident Management, Problem Management, Change Management, and urgent cross-team facilitation
  • Define and Measure KPIs for your own team's performance and Epic-wide performance against strategic and operational related goals facilitated by LiveOps processes and tooling
  • Proactively identify strategic opportunities to improve operational components of the development ecosystem at Epic
  • Manage a team of engineers and analysts providing guidance, support, and mentorship to foster professional growth and development
  • Advise and guide the company in the adoption of Epic-specific and, where appropriate, industry best practices in the realm of operational maturity and critical system availability
  • Position LiveOps to provide a consistent, predictable, and measurable set of services to technical teams across the company and subsidiaries
  • Serve as a high judgment escalation point for urgent technical issues facing Epic

What we're looking for

  • Senior-level experience across the full software development lifecycle
  • Senior-level experience owning critical software and infrastructure services with rigorous uptime requirements
  • Experience in system design and operation at a global scale
  • Multiple years of experience in managing a multi-discipline engineering team
  • Ability to lead in a geographically dispersed organization
  • Experience with multi-national regulatory compliance
  • A leader in operationally focused culture development

EPIC JOB + EPIC BENEFITS = EPIC LIFE

We pay 100% for benefits for both employees and dependents and offer coverage for supplemental medical, dental, vision, critical illness, telemedicine, Life and AD&D, long term disability insurance as well as weekly indemnity (short term disability) and a retirement savings plan with a competitive employer match. In addition to the EAP (employee assistance program), we also offer a robust mental well-being program through Modern Health, which provides free therapy and coaching for employees & dependents.

British Columbia Base Pay Range
$233,807$342,916 CAD

ABOUT US

Epic Games spans across 19 countries with 55 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 here.

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 here.

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$233.8K - $342.9K/yr (Outscal est.)
$288.4K/yr avg.
Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada

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About The Company

Founded in 1991, Epic Games is a leading interactive entertainment company and provider of 3D engine technology. Epic operates Fortnite, one of the world’s largest games with over 350 million accounts and 2.5 billion friend connections. Epic also develops Unreal Engine, which powers the world’s leading games and is 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. Epic has over 40 offices worldwide with headquarters in Cary, North Carolina.

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