Backend Engineer

Job Description

ENGINEERING - UNREAL ENGINE

What We Do

Unreal-powered projects have been on the bleeding edge of real-time entertainment for over 20 years. Our team of engineering experts are always innovating to improve the tools and technology that empower content developers worldwide.

What You'll Do

As part of a small globally distributed team of backend engineers, you'll support existing UCS-hosted services (such as Unreal Editor for Fortnite, RealityScan, MetaHuman Creator, Twinmotion, and Unreal Revision Control), and design/deploy new cloud systems that will help shape the future of collaborative content creation.

In this role, you will
• Design, implement, and maintain scalable, secure, highly-available backend services using RESTful API and gRPC protocols
• Own the entire lifecycle of services, from design and implementation to deployment
• Work on an existing AWS cloud infrastructure
• Work together with both upstream and downstream service owners, producers, and infrastructure to ship solutions
• Participate in a light-weight on-call rotation, along with the entire cloud services team

What we're looking for
• Proven track record of contributing live services at scale
• Passionate about building and maintaining secure, scalable, and highly available online applications, with 5+ years of experience in creating online services or web systems
• Proficient in cloud technologies, preferably AWS cloud services, Unix-flavored operating systems, CI/CD environments, and deploying and running containerized services
• Must be comfortable with Javascript/Typescript. Additional experience in other languages is a plus, especially Rust
• Ability to craft solutions using SQL and nonrelational databases
• Positive communication skills including the ability to provide, solicit, and accept feedback constructively

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 here.

Jobcode: Reference SBJ-gqwxnz-18-221-147-141-42 in your application.