Senior C++ Engineer, Developer Relations

2 Weeks ago • 4-8 Years • Backend Development

Job Summary

Job Description

As a Senior C++ Engineer in Developer Relations at Epic Games, you'll contribute to the platform powering Epic Games Services, used by over half a billion players. You'll work with online services teams to build, deploy, and manage services including login, parties, voice chat, and more. Responsibilities include contributing to technical product decisions, collaborating with internal and external teams, solving integration challenges, creating technical documentation and samples, identifying new developer experience opportunities, and advocating for new technologies. You'll work on highly distributed systems serving real-time communication to millions of users, designing and maintaining resilient services based on synchronous and asynchronous APIs.
Must have:
  • Highly proficient in C++ and C
  • API and SDK design & maintenance experience
  • Developer advocacy or open-source community experience
  • Experience with different build solutions
  • Contribute to technical product decisions
  • Collaborate with engineering teams
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

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.

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

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 a massive scale as one of the largest cloud computing users in the world. 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 in building highly distributed systems to serve the need 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

  • Contribute, document and communicate technical product decisions
  • Maintain conversations with internal and external teams to drive technologies forward
  • Collaboratively solve integration challenges with the engineering teams
  • Work on technical documentation and samples
  • Identify and research new opportunities in developer experience
  • Advocate new technologies and use cases

What we're looking for

  • Self-motivated, tactful and empathetic
  • Highly proficient in C++ and C
  • Experience in API and SDK design and maintenance
  • Experience in developer advocacy or a similar open-source community role
  • Experience in different build solutions

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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