Senior Backend Programmer, Developer Platform (Horde)

At the core of Epics success are talented passionate people. Epic prides itself on creating a collaborative welcoming and creative environment. Whether its building award-winning 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.

Unreal-powered projects have been on the bleeding edge of real-time entertainment for over 20 years. Our team of programming experts are always innovating to improve the tools and technology that empower content developers worldwide.

Epic Games is searching for an experienced senior programmer to join our developer platform team. Youll work on Horde our in-house platform that powers CI/CD remote execution build health storage and other services critical to developer iteration and workflows. This platform is key to delivering our internal game projects and supports numerous organizations outside of Epic.

• Collaborate with mixed discipline teams across Epic and multiple time zones to help steer Hordes architecture ensuring new features are scalable maintainable and fit the overall design
• Take ownership of parts of the Horde codebase implementing new features fixing bugs and supporting internal teams and Unreal licensees
• Develop and extend the Horde plugin architecture across Build Compute Storage Secrets and Tools

• 6 years of professional programming experience designing distributed systems that handle scheduling queueing storage and failure recovery at high volume
• Experience building software behind CI/CD or developer infrastructure (job schedulers remote execution or artifact storage services)
• Expert knowledge of C# including multithreading and memory management
• Strong backend and server architecture experience including data modeling API design and scaling strategies
• Experience with cloud solutions such as AWS or Azure
• Strong communication skills across technical and non-technical audiences
• Live service experience is a plus
• Familiarity with gRPC MongoDB or Redis (or equivalent) is a plus
• Experience developing web frontends is a plus
• Experience leveraging agentic programming tools in your workflows is a plus

We pay 100% for benefits for both employees and dependents and offer coverage for supplemental medical dental vision critical illness telemedicine Life and AD&D long term disability insurance as well as weekly indemnity (short term disability) and a retirement savings plan with a competitive employer addition to the EAP (employee assistance program) we also offer a robust mental well-being program through Modern Health which provides free therapy and coaching for employees & dependents.

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 arent limited to) things such as skills and competencies qualifications knowledge and addition to base pay most employees are eligible to participate in Epics generous benefit plans and discretionary incentive programs (subject to the terms of those plans or programs).

Epic Games is a leading interactive entertainment company. For over 30 years weve 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. Epics 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.

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.

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