Jobs

Scholarships

Courses

Companies

Placements

Community

Home >

Jobs >

Senior Backend Engineer

North Carolina, United States (On-site)

Senior Backend Engineer

46 Minutes ago • 4-8 Years • Backend Development

About the job

10 skills required for this role

Add these skills to join the top 1% applicants for this job

java

scala

mongodb

redis

aws

sql

unreal

communication

live-operations

talent-acquisition

Job Description

As a Senior Backend Engineer at Epic Games, you'll design, implement, and operate highly available, high-throughput, low-latency online services at scale. This includes crafting synchronous and asynchronous services, persistent connection services, and various other systems to support games like Fortnite. Responsibilities involve managing data and workflows for developers, building internal tools, and integrating with Epic's products. You'll work with Java, Scala, AWS, MongoDB, DynamoDB, and Redis, collaborating with other engineers and service owners to deliver solutions. You'll own the entire service lifecycle, including live operations and deployment, focusing on accountability and adaptability within an ambiguous problem space.

Must have:

Experience in developing online systems
Experience with public API services
Operating live services experience
Large-scale service experience
Java/Scala experience
AWS experience
SQL and NoSQL database experience
Excellent communication skills

Perks:

100% premium coverage for medical, dental, vision
Long-term disability and 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.

ENGINEERING - 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 our team, you will craft highly available, high throughput, low latency services at scale, synchronous and asynchronous services, persistent connection services, and a variety of other systems. You’ll build services to manage data and workflows for developers to self-service distributing their games as well as internal tools and integrations for Epic to interact with these products.

In this role, you will

Get things done: Epic empowers engineers to assess a challenge, craft a solution, and implement it
Write distributed systems to handle large scale challenges (we use Java, Scala)
Work with public cloud infrastructure to facilitate a fast moving ecosystem (we use AWS)
Own the entire lifecycle of services, including live operations and deployment
Craft solutions using modern SQL and nonrelational databases (we use Mongodb, Dynamo and Redis)
Work together with both upstream and downstream service owners, producers and other cloud, infrastructure and embedded DevOps engineers to ship solutions
Own the outcome: Be accountable for the solutions you build and flexible around the ambiguity of the problem space

What we're looking for

Experience in developing online systems
Highly desirable experience with design, implementation and operation public API services
Proven track record of operating live services
Experience with large scale services strongly preferred
Experience working with a team of engineers to solve large and ambiguous problems
Excellent communication skills including the ability to provide, solicit and accept feedback constructively
You’re user-focused, passionate, resourceful, solutions-focused, and innovative. These traits equal success at Epic and influence everything we do

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 .

View Full Job Description

Upload your resume, increase your shortlisting chances by 80%

About The Company

Epic Games

389 Active Jobs

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.