Principal Cloud Engineer

1 Hour ago • All levels • Backend Development • Full Stack Development • Undisclosed

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Job Description

As a Principal Cloud Engineer at Epic Games, you'll provide technical leadership for the Governance and Platform Infrastructure (GPI) organization. Key responsibilities include owning the technical vision and strategic planning for GPI, building partnerships with internal/external teams, driving execution of strategic initiatives, and mentoring an engineering team. You'll work across Epic to ensure alignment and accountability, collaborate with product and engineering teams on roadmap prioritization, and maintain high operational standards for built tools. The role requires deep understanding of cloud technologies (especially AWS), experience with developer platforms, and a proven track record of leading high-performing teams. You'll need strong interpersonal and cross-team collaboration skills to understand diverse stakeholder needs.
Must have:
  • Technical leadership of high-performing teams
  • Experience optimizing for budgetary efficiency
  • Deep understanding of cloud technologies (AWS)
  • Strong interpersonal and cross-team collaboration skills
  • Experience driving long-term vision for cloud infrastructure improvement
Perks:
  • 100% premium coverage for medical, dental, vision
  • Long-term disability & life insurance
  • 401k with competitive match
  • Robust mental well-being program
  • Unlimited PTO and sick time
  • Paid sabbatical after 7 years

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.

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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

Your primary responsibility will be technical leadership of our Governance and Platform Infrastructure (GPI) organization, which will focus on building technical alignment and partnerships with external and internal engineering and product teams and technical leaders. You will leverage your strong technical leadership skills as you play a key role in improving, scaling, and operating cloud infrastructure services.

In this role, you will

  • Own and drive the technical vision and strategic planning across all of GPI
  • Be accountable for building and maintaining technical alignment and partnerships with teams and technical leaders within GPI
  • Drive the outcomes, delivery, and execution of strategic initiatives within GPI. This includes contributing individually to the project as needed to support teams and outcomes
  • Work across Epic to ensure that you are driving alignment and accountability with partner and customer teams
  • Build, grow, and mentor an engineering team that balances technical expertise with customer focus and a growth mindset to deliver consistently
  • Partner closely with product management, software engineering, and cloud engineering teams to ensure that your roadmap is appropriately prioritized to drive meaningful outcomes
  • Maintain a high bar for the quality and operational health of the tools that our teams build and define the metrics used to measure the effectiveness of our system

What we're looking for

  • A proven track record of driving technical leadership of high-performing engineering teams and cultures
  • Strong desire to level up and grow the leadership talent around you through mentorship and coaching
  • Experience optimizing for budgetary efficiency. Ensuring that the budget is spent in the areas will positively impact players the most
  • Strong interpersonal skills and the ability to work across teams to understand the technical and non-technical needs of diverse stakeholders
  • Experience working across large organizational and business unit boundaries to help drive change and build alignment with customers and partners
  • Knowledge of modern developer platforms and industry standards for developer tooling and practices
  • Deep understanding of cloud technologies, especially Amazon Web Services
  • An ability to drive a long-term vision for improving cloud infrastructure and services through continual iterative improvements
  • A desire and willingness to jump into the weeds and do engineering work as needed to deliver strategic outcomes for the organization

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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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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