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 member of our team, you will craft highly available, high throughput, low latency services at scale, synchronous and asynchronous services, persistent connection services, and a variety of other systems. You'll build services to manage data and workflows for developers to self-service distributing their games as well as internal tools and integrations for Epic to interact with these products.In this role, you willGet things done: Epic empowers engineers to assess a challenge, craft a solution, and implementWrite distributed systems to handle large-scale challenges (we use Java, Scala)Work with public cloud infrastructure to facilitate a fast-moving ecosystem (we use AWS)Own the entire lifecycle of services, including live operations and deploymentCraft solutions using modern SQL and nonrelational databases (we use MongoDB, Dynamo and Redis)Work together with both upstream and downstream service owners, producers and other cloud, infrastructure and embedded DevOps engineers to ship solutionsOwn the outcome - Be accountable for the solutions you build and flexible around the ambiguity of the problem spaceWhat we're looking forPassion for crafting secure, scalable, and highly available applicationsExperience architecting and leading innovative, complex software projectsExperience collaborating with a variety of strategic stakeholders to bring a product vision to lifeDeep knowledge of Java or NodeExperience in collaborating with design teams to design, document and build design systems for scalable and consistent user interfacesExperience with cloud technologies (we use AWS)Understanding of relational and NoSQL databasesExperience working in an Agile / Scrum environmentEPIC 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.
