Senior Software Engineer
Job Summary
Job Description
- Excellent native coding skills (Rust, C++)
- Experience with performance-sensitive systems
- Cloud and distributed systems experience
- Async multithreaded code experience
- File systems, IPC, networking knowledge
- HTTP, GRPC protocol experience
- Native UI programming experience
- Unreal Engine and its tech stack understanding
7 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.
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).
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 .
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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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