Senior Engineer, Data Platform

3 Days ago • 5 Years + • Backend Development

Job Summary

Job Description

Epic Games seeks a Senior Software Engineer for its growing data team. Responsibilities include partnering with internal customers to define data needs, designing and building large-scale data services (using Kafka, Pinot, ClickHouse, S3, Databricks, Snowflake, Flink, Spark, Kubernetes, and AWS), ensuring service observability and debuggability, providing on-call support, and improving platform development velocity. The role involves working with stream data from game clients and servers, building distributed systems, and maintaining a multi-petabyte data ecosystem supporting near real-time and batch processing.
Must have:
  • 5+ years data team experience
  • Distributed event streaming (Kafka)
  • OLAP databases (Pinot, Clickhouse)
  • Data lakes/warehouses (S3, Databricks, Snowflake)
  • Distributed query engines (Flink, Spark)
  • Containerized services (Kubernetes) in AWS
  • JVM stack expertise
Perks:
  • 100% premium coverage (Medical, Dental, Vision)
  • Long Term Disability, Life Insurance
  • 401k with competitive match
  • 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

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.

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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