ENGINEERING - EPIC GAMES SERVICESWhat We DoDriving 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 DoAs a Principal Backend Engineer, you'll join our mission in delivering free, cross-platform game services for all developers. This role will help guide the future of Epic Online Services, specifically matchmaking, that powers our games, such as Fortnite, Rocket League and Fall Guys. Epic believes in an open, integrated gaming community and this opportunity is to help us build just that on a global scale. As a member of our team, you will lead us to craft highly available, high throughput, low latency services at scale, synchronous and asynchronous services, persistent connection services, and a variety of other systems. These will all help to power our internal products and enable external development teams all over the world. The Matchmaking team is a collaborative environment and you will help to foster an open, supportive culture in which everyone can be successful and their authentic self. Learn more at https://dev.epicgames.com/ In this role, you willGet things done - Epic empowers engineers to assess a challenge, craft a solution, and implement itOversee technical design and drive implementation of robust online solutionsWrite and maintain distributed systems to handle large scale challenges,Own the entire lifecycle of services, including live operations and deploymentCollaborate with service owners, producers and other cloud, infrastructure and embedded QA/DevOps engineers to ship solutionsOwn the outcome - Be accountable for the solutions you build and flexible around the ambiguity of the problem spaceDeliver ongoing, transparent communication with a focus on expectations?, fostering trust with internal stakeholders and external partners. While providing technical leadership to guide the team and wider organization to deliver performant, maintainable and well-documented servicesWhat we're looking for7+ years software engineering industry experience developing online systemsExperience work?ing? with distributed systems to handle large 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 standardsExperience leading a team of engineers in a ambiguous and sometimes chaotic environmentExcellent communication skills including the ability to provide, solicit and accept feedback constructivelyEPIC JOB + EPIC BENEFITS = EPIC LIFEOur 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.
