Backend Engineer

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 - GAMES

What We Do

Unreal projects have been leading the pack of real-time entertainment with our constantly growing team of engineering experts. We’re always improving on the tools and technology that empower content developers worldwide.

What You'll Do

You will work with our team of machine learning research engineers to create state-of-the-art tools to support game developers in our ecosystem (including content generation, development assistants, and learned bots), as well as automation of a number key areas (including localization, moderation, security, and testing). You’ll apply your backend expertise to tackle complex technical challenges with these solutions. Collaborating with Epic teams across the globe, you’ll design, develop, and maintain high performance, secure and reliable services across all areas we support as a team.

In this role, you will

• Design, implement, and iterate on scalable, secure, highly-available, backend services
• Work with Research, MLOps and Data Engineers on scaling up our inference platform
• Handle real-time operation issues on MLS services and platform
• Collect, analyze, and interpret metrics to improve application performance and functionality. Ensure comprehensive monitoring and alert coverage
• Provide input into the product road map, including milestone schedules and deliverables
• Refactor, enhance, and maintain the existing codebase for improved performance and scalability. Maintain code quality
• Work closely with global teams in other time zones

What we're looking for

• Passionate about building and maintaining APIs that are secure, highly scalable, and highly available
• 5+ years of experience in building and running large scale, mission critical services
• Knowledge of Python and RESTful API design and implementation (Sanic, FastAPI)
• Deep knowledge of database systems, both relational and NoSQL
• Experience of utilizing caching, messaging, async processing, etc. in online services
• Solid understanding of AWS services like EC2, RDS, ElasticCache, SNS, SQS
• Familiarity with mechanisms such as OAuth, OpenID, and JWTs
• Understanding of tools and processes including Docker, Terraform, Kubernetes, and CI/CD pipelines (Github actions)
• Desirable: Front-end experience, experience with ML systems, experience with other languages than Python (Go, Rust, C++, Zig, …)

EPIC JOB + EPIC BENEFITS = EPIC LIFE

We pay 100% for benefits except for PMI (for dependents). Our current benefits package includes pension, private medical insurance, health care cash plan, dental insurance, disability and life insurance, critical illness, cycle to work scheme, flu shots, health checks, and meals. We also offer a robust mental well-being program through Modern Health, which provides free therapy and coaching for employees & dependents.

ABOUT US

Epic Games spans across 25 countries with 46 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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