Senior Cloud Engineer
Senior Cloud Engineer
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Job Description
WHAT MAKES US EPIC
At the core of Epics success are talented passionate people. Epic prides itself on creating a collaborative welcoming and creative environment. Whether its building awardwinning games or crafting engine technology that enables others to make visually stunning interactive experiences were always innovating.
Being Epic means being a part of a team that continually strives to do right by our community and users. Were constantly innovating to raise the bar of engine and game development.
ENGINEERING UNREAL ENGINE
What We Do
Unrealpowered projects have been on the bleeding edge of realtime entertainment for over 20 years. Our team of engineering experts are always innovating to improve the tools and technology that empower content developers worldwide.
What Youll Do
Epic Games is searching for an experienced Senior Cloud Engineer to join our Foundation Data Pipelines team. In this role youll develop and own georeplicated cloud systems running all over the world that are essential for Unreal Engine users to ship their games. This involves moving large volumes of data around and in highly available systems. The ideal candidate will have a passion for practical problem solving and an affinity for improving the daytoday workflow of other developers. We think you subscribe to You build it you run it and feel comfortable jumping between development operational and support work as needed.
In this role you will
- Build out and operate cloud infrastructure for high efficiency storage and replication of game and editor data
- Optimize iteration times and improve existing systems for performance memory usage and user experience
- Develop custom tools and pipelines for other engineers and content creators
- Work with large complex code base and understand and resolve performance issues
- Establish test workflows to validate performance improvements and prevent regressions
- Support external North American customers by answering their technical requests and questions
What were looking for
- Proficiency with a major cloud provider AWS preferred
- Excellent knowledge in a backend language like C# or Java (C# and C experience preferred)
- Experience with technologies for geodistribution and consistency
- Experience working with high performance low latency systems
- Demonstrated ability to reason about large interacting systems from the macrolevel to the microlevel
- Experience profiling and optimizing a large codebase
- Comfortable writing multithreaded code and reasoning about dependency graphs and content pipeline for large games
- This role will be supporting North American customers hence the ability to work across North American time zones is required
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 wellbeing program through Modern Health which provides free therapy and coaching for employees & dependents. Throughout the year we celebrate our employees with events and companywide paid breaks. We offer unlimited PTO and sick time and recognize individuals for 7 years of employment with a paid sabbatical.
ABOUT US
Epic Games spans across 25 countries with 46 studios and 4500 employees globally. For over 25 years weve been making awardwinning games and engine technology that empowers others to make visually stunning games and 3D content that bring environments to life like never before. Epics awardwinning Unreal Engine technology not only provides game developers the ability to build highfidelity 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 worldclass talent.
Like what you hear Come be a part of something Epic!
Epic Games deeply values diverse teams and an inclusive work culture and we are proud to be an Equal Opportunity employer. Learn more about our Equal Employment Opportunity (EEO) Policy here.
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.
Required Experience:
Senior IC
Employment Type
Full Time
