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Senior Backend Engineer

Epic Games

Cary, NC 05-21-2025
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  • Paid
  • Full Time
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
We are looking for a Backend Engineer to join the Fortnite Creative 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. These will all help to power our internal products and enable external development teams all over the world. The Online services team is a collaborative environment, and a successful candidate will help to foster an open, supportive culture in which everyone can be successful and their authentic self.
In this role, you will
• Write distributed systems to handle large scale challenges (we use Typescript and Java)
• Work with public cloud infrastructure to facilitate a fast moving ecosystem (we use AWS)
• Own the entire lifecycle of services, including live operations and deployment
• Craft 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 solutions
• Be responsible for efforts to increase unit and integration testing code coverage for both new and existing backend services (we use Mocha and JUnit)
What we're looking for
• Proficiency with Java and Typescript (bonus points for experience with AWS, Kubernetes or C++)
• Experience developing online systems
• Comfortable writing unit and integration tests (bonus points for experience tying into VCS and C/I workflows)
• Proven track record of operating live services

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-ne6ze5-18-97-14-91-42 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.