Senior Backend Engineer

Job Description

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
Our team builds the backend services powering our online experiences for both internal and third-party game development teams worldwide: Epic Online Services. We currently focus on systems like matchmaking, player inventory, achievements, voice chat, parties, and more. We own and maintain relationships with our external partners and internal game teams. As a Senior Backend Engineer, you'll join our mission of delivering free, cross-platform game services for all developers. This role will help develop and expand the reach of Epic Online Services, which powers our games, such as Fortnite, Rocket League, and Fall Guys, as well as external partners. Epic believes in an open, integrated gaming community, and this opportunity will help us build just that on a global scale. As a team member, you will help us craft highly available, high throughput, low latency services at scale, synchronous and asynchronous services, persistent connection services, and various other systems. These will all help to power our internal products and enable external development teams all over the world. The team is a collaborative environment, and you will help foster an open, supportive culture in which everyone can be successful and authentic. Learn more at https://dev.epicgames.com/

In this role, you will
• Get things done - Epic empowers engineers to assess a challenge, craft a solution, and implement it
• Architect and contribute to features related to the online gaming experience
• Work with client and other backend teams to develop new systems
• Integrate feedback from our various partners to evolve and improve existing features
• Write and maintain distributed systems to handle significant scale challenges
• Own the outcome - Be accountable for the solutions you build and flexible around the ambiguity of the problem space

What we're looking for
• 4+ years of software engineering industry experience developing online systems
• Experience working​ with distributed systems to handle significant scale challenges (Redis, Kafka, Kubernetes, AWS, Spring)
• Proven track record of growing, guiding, and mentoring team members​
• Proven track record of operating live and online services at scale, leveraging industry best practices and standards
• Experience leading a team of engineers in an ambiguous and sometimes chaotic environment
• Excellent communication skills, including the ability to provide, solicit, and accept feedback constructively

This role is open to multiple locations across the US (including CA & WA).

Pay Transparency Information

The expected annual base pay range(s) for this position are detailed below. Each base pay range is relevant only for individuals who are residents of or will be expected to work within the specified locale. Compensation varies based on a variety of factors, which include (but aren't limited to) things such as skills and competencies, qualifications, knowledge, and experience. In addition to base pay, most employees are eligible to participate in Epic's generous benefit plans and discretionary incentive programs (subject to the terms of those plans or programs).

California Base Pay Range

$190,010 — $278,682 USD

Washington Base Pay Range

$172,736 — $253,347 USD

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.

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