Senior Rust Software Engineer

PROGRAMMING - UNREAL ENGINE

What We Do

Unreal-powered projects have been on the bleeding edge of real-time entertainment for over 20 years. Our team of programming experts are always innovating to improve the tools and technology that empower content developers worldwide.

What You'll Do

As an Unreal Cloud Services team member, you will build the ultimate suite of cloud-based, real-time collaborative content creation tools based on Unreal Engine. You set the agenda to empower content developers worldwide to accomplish their ideas in a seamless, cooperative, and distributed environment.

In this role, you will

• Work on our core Rust and C libraries that underpin our desktop and cloud-based collaboration tools
• Integrate our core libraries with Unreal Engine as well as other client and server software
• Analyze and optimize the performance of our foundational technologies. You will work with hashing and compression algorithms, virtual file systems, and cutting-edge network protocols deployed on multiple operating systems
• Identify necessary improvements and create technical specifications for both yourself and your peers to deliver on
• Work closely with the Product team to make sure our technical implementations align with the long-term vision for our collaboration products
• Cooperate tightly with our Engine, Backend, Infrastructure, and Web teams to ensure we deliver robust cross-functional solutions

What we're looking for

• Demonstrated excellent native coding skills e.g. Rust, C++, or C
• Demonstrated contributions to performance-sensitive systems software
• Performance-minded with excellent knowledge of profiling and optimization
• Experience with cloud and distributed systems
• Experience writing async multithreaded code
• Experience in file systems, IPC, networking, and standard web protocols (HTTP, GRPC,...)
• Experience in native UI programming and frameworks is a plus
• Experience working with Unreal Engine and a good understanding of its tech stack is a plus
• Highly collaborative with excellent technical and non-technical communication skills

This role is open to multiple locations in North America and Europe (excluding CA, NY, & WA).

EPIC GAMES + 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.