Backend Engineer

Bellevue, WA, United States

WHAT MAKES US EPIC?

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.

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 and Epic’s own online services to build cross-platform online features. Login, parties, voice chat, matchmaking, purchasing, cloud storage, and analytics are some of the online features our Online Game Services team helps games utilize.

What You'll Do

As a member of the Identity team, you will craft high-performance online services at scale focused on authentication, authorization, and account management. Backend Engineers focus primarily on the platform API services and operating the infrastructure it runs on. Our highly collaborative environment focuses on quality, reliability, and usability. From design, implementation, and deployment, you can shape the services and features that drive the future of Identity in the Epic Games ecosystem.

In this role, you will

Get things done: Epic empowers engineers to assess a challenge, craft a solution, and implement it

Write distributed systems to handle large-scale challenges (we primarily use 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 non-relational databases (we use MongoDB, Dynamo, and Redis)

Collaborate in healthy ways with producers, product owners, and other engineers, cloud, infrastructure, or DevOps teammates to ship solutions

Provide feedback and estimates on feature development and other operational tasks

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

What we're looking for

4+  years of software engineering experience, with experience in developing online systems

Solid background in writing distributed systems (REST / RPC / GraphQL)  in large-scale environments

Proven track record of operating live services

Experience working with a distributed team of engineers to solve large and ambiguous problems

Experience owning and supporting team projects and features, from technical design to development to deployment, with minimal oversight

May mentor others on the team (i.e., interns, associates)

Excellent communication skills, including the ability to provide, solicit, and accept feedback constructively

You are user-focused, friendly, pragmatic, and innovative. These traits equal success at Epic and influence everything we do

EPIC JOB + EPIC BENEFITS = EPIC LIFE

Our intent is to cover all things that are medically necessary and improve the quality of life. We pay 100% of the premiums for both you and your dependents. Our coverage includes Medical, Dental, a Vision HRA, Long Term Disability, Life Insurance & a 401k with competitive match. We also offer a robust mental well-being program through Modern Health, which provides free therapy and coaching for employees & dependents. Throughout the year we celebrate our employees with events and company-wide paid breaks. We offer unlimited PTO and sick time and recognize individuals for 7 years of employment with a paid sabbatical.

Pay Transparency Information

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 $157,355—$230,788 USD ABOUT US

Epic Games spans across 19 countries with 55 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 life like never before. Epic’s award-winning Unreal Engine technology not only provides game developers the ability to build high-fidelity, interactive experiences for PC, console, mobile, and VR, it is also a tool being embraced by content creators across a variety of industries such as media and entertainment, automotive, and architectural design. As we continue to build our Engine technology and develop remarkable games, we strive to build teams of world-class talent.

Like what you hear? Come be a part of something Epic!

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