Lead Engineer

Job Description

ENGINEERING AT EPIC

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

We are seeking a Lead Engineer to join our team.

As a member of our team, you will craft highly available, high throughput, low latency services at scale. You will work with both synchronous and asynchronous services, persistent connection services, and a variety of other systems. These will all help to power our internal products as well as help Epic scale the amount of products we can launch on our store.

You'll be building tools and services for publishing workflows for game developers, services to support EGStore and crossplay features, scalability and performance initiatives, and core internal services like shared libraries and frameworks.

In this role, you will
• Team Management - work in the trenches with a team of senior level engineers, understanding their strengths and opportunities for growth, and surfacing opportunities for development
• Lead team in creating and operating online systems and solutions spanning backend services, Web app and SDKs
• Own technical design and drive implementation of robust, highly scalable online solutions
• Definition, delivery and ongoing improvement of SLAs for online services environment - system health and monitoring, reporting and response, on call resolution
• Partner with stakeholders to establish clear priorities and defining expectations which translate to scope of work team can effectively deliver on
• Ongoing, transparent communication with a focus on expectations fostering trust with internal stakeholders and external partners

If these challenges sound exciting, we would love to talk.

What we're looking for
• 8+ years experience solving impactful technical challenges; we look for people who can assess a challenge, craft a scalable architecture, and run with implementation
• Demonstrated experience driving initiatives and collaborating with cross-functional teams
• Proven experience building and leading technical teams
• Distributed systems programming experience (we use Java, Kotlin, Scala)
• Experience managing cloud services at scale (we use AWS)
• Service ownership experience; the ability to run, troubleshoot, and deploy your own services (we use Kubernetes, Docker, Terraform)
• Experience with SQL and nonrelational datastores (we use Mongo, Postgres, Dynamo, Redis)
• Operating systems experience (we use Linux/Unix) required
• Experience with Websockets or other server push models, experience with content delivery networks (Akamai, CloudFront) a plus
• You're user-focused, passionate, scrappy, solutions-focused, and innovative. These traits equal success at Epic and influence everything we do

Jobcode: Reference SBJ-gkeoyp-18-217-228-35-42 in your application.