Senior Software Programmer

13 Minutes ago • 4-8 Years • Backend Development • Undisclosed

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Job Description

As a Senior Software Programmer in Epic Games' Media Services team, you'll design, build, and maintain highly distributed systems using Golang to serve millions of concurrent users. Responsibilities include building APIs for high-scale services, handling long-term connection management in Kubernetes clusters, and working with synchronous and asynchronous APIs. You'll collaborate with other teams to ensure resilient services supporting features like login, parties, voice chat, matchmaking, and more within the Epic Games ecosystem, powering games such as Fortnite.
Must have:
  • Extensive knowledge of Go concurrency patterns
  • Production experience building GRPC endpoints
  • Experience with message queues
  • Kubernetes environment expertise
  • NoSQL and SQL database experience (DynamoDB, PostgreSQL ideal)
Perks:
  • 100% benefits coverage for employees and dependents
  • Supplemental medical, dental, vision, and more
  • Robust mental well-being program
  • Retirement savings plan with employer match

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 - EPIC GAMES SERVICES

What We Do

Driving the plug-in power behind Unreal Engine 5. We bridge connections for licensees and our own internal game teams to online services. This allows games like Fortnite to utilize a combination of platform online services as well as Epic’s own online services to build cross-platform online features. Login, parties, voice chat, matchmaking, purchasing, cloud storage, and analytics are just a few examples of online features that our Online Game Services team helps games utilize.

What You'll Do

As a member of the Media Services team, you'll build the platform that empowers existing and upcoming services within the Epic Games ecosystem. You'll face great challenges to build highly distributed systems to serve the needs to provide real-time communication to millions of users. You will work closely with other teams to design and maintain resilient services based on synchronous and asynchronous APIs.

In this role, you will

  • Design, build and maintain distributed processing systems in Golang
  • Build APIs for high scale services serving millions of concurrent users
  • Build tools to handle long term connection management in kubernetes clusters

What we're looking for

  • Extensive knowledge of Go concurrency patterns (channels, go routines)
  • Production experience in building GRPC endpoints
  • Experience in working with message queues
  • Experience with kubernetes based environments
  • Experience with NoSQL and SQL based databases (ideally AWS DynamoDB, PostgreSQL)

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

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.

 

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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