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Principal Webrtc Software Engineer, Media Services

Epic Games

San Francisco, CA 01-23-2023
 
  • Paid
  • Full Time
Job Description
ENGINEERING - ONLINE INFRASTRUCTURE

What We Do

We enable Epic's online services teams to build, deploy, and manage services that are used by more than half a billion players around the world. Our mission is to provide world class tools and platforms to improve the experience of our developers and make it easier, faster, and safer to build, operate, and scale their applications. We operate at a massive scale as one of the largest cloud computing users in the world.

What You'll Do

As a member of the Media Services team, you'll build the platform that empowers existing and upcoming services within the Epic Games ecosystem. You'll face great challenges to build highly distributed systems to serve the needs to provide real-time communication to millions of users. You will work closely with other teams to design and maintain resilient services based on synchronous and asynchronous APIs.

In this role, you will
• Guide the implementation of WebRTC across multiple Epic Games teams
• Develop and improve our WebRTC server and client stack
• Investigate and explore new technologies to continuously innovate our
real-time communication services
• Provide technical guidance on the vision of WebRTC within Epic Games

What we're looking for
• Highly proficient in C++
• Deep understanding of signaling concepts for WebRTC
• Hands-On experience in debugging and optimizing WebRTC stacks
• Experience in designing and maintaining C APIs
• Understanding build systems like GN, Ninja

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-d2p9v5-18-226-96-61-42 in your application.

Company Profile
Epic Games

Founded in 1991, Epic Games is a leading interactive entertainment company and provider of 3D engine technology. Epic operates Fortnite, one of the world’s largest games with over 350 million accounts and 2.5 billion friend connections. Epic also develops Unreal Engine, which powers the world’s leading games and is also adopted across industries such as film and television, architecture, automotive, manufacturing, and simulation.