Senior Backend Engineer

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.

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.

As a Backend Engineer, you’ll join our mission in 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 is to help us build just that on a global scale.

As a member of our team, you will help 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 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.

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• 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 large scale challenges
• Own the outcome - Be accountable for the solutions you build and flexible around the ambiguity of the problem space

• 4+ years software engineering industry experience developing online systems
• Experience working with distributed systems to handle large scale challenges (Redis, Kafka, Kubernetes, AWS, Spring)
• Proven track record of collaborating with team members and other partners on complex systems
• Proven track record of operating live and online services at scale, leveraging industry best practices and standards
• Demonstrated ability to independently manage your projects, estimates, and timelines
• Experience working with 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 WA).

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).

Washington Base Pay Range

$172,736 — $253,347 USD

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…