Senior Engineer, Data Platform

ENGINEERING - EPIC GAMES SERVICES

What We Do

Our mission is to provide a world-class platform that empowers the business to leverage data to enhance, monitor, and support our products. We are responsible for data ingestion systems, processing pipelines, and various data stores, all operating in the cloud. We operate at multi-petabyte scale and support near real-time use cases as well as more traditional batch approaches.

What You'll Do

Epic is looking for a Senior Software Engineer to join a growing team of data professionals who provide valued insights across all of Epic's games, Unreal Engine, and Epic Online Services. In this position, you will build distributed systems that receive and process stream data from our game clients and servers into the various backend systems that make up the data ecosystem at Epic.

In this role, you will

• Partner with internal customers across Epic to understand and document business needs
• Create technical designs, validate requirements, build and execute delivery plans while seeking and sharing feedback with the team
• Develop and maintain large-scale data services with excellent observability and debuggability
• Provide on-call support for services the team owns
• Bring consistency and increase dev velocity on a myriad of services that compose the platform

What we're looking for

• 5+ years experience working with data teams and their customers (data scientists, analysts, engineers implementing telemetry, engineers developing data infrastructure and pipelines)
• Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Software Engineering, or a related field
• Demonstrates a team-first mindset with a strong drive to achieve collective success and continuous growth
• Proactively solves problems across a wide area of ownership
• Continuously seeks to improve and demonstrates proficiency through output
• Experience with distributed event streaming (Kafka), OLAP databases (Pinot, Clickhouse), data lakes and warehouses (S3, Databricks, Snowflake), and distributed query engines (Flink, Spark)
• Experience developing containerized services (Kubernetes) in a cloud environment (AWS)
• Expertise in the JVM stack

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.