Principal 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

As 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 will
• Get things done - Epic empowers engineers to assess a challenge, craft a solution, and implement it
• Oversee technical design and drive implementation of robust online solutions
• Write and maintain distributed systems to handle large scale challenges,
• Own the entire lifecycle of services, including live operations and deployment
• Collaborate with service owners, producers and other cloud, infrastructure and embedded QA/DevOps engineers to ship solutions
• Own the outcome - Be accountable for the solutions you build and flexible around the ambiguity of the problem space
• Deliver 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 services

What we're looking for
• 7+ years software engineering industry experience developing online systems
• Experience 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 standards
• Experience leading a team of engineers in a ambiguous and sometimes chaotic environment
• Excellent communication skills including the ability to provide, solicit and accept feedback constructively

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.

Jobcode: Reference SBJ-r0x996-3-129-13-201-42 in your application.