// Open Role at Epic Games
Epic Games is seeking an experienced Engine Programmer to join the Fortnite Tech Desktop team. Enhance the player experience on PC by optimizing stability and performance, working with cutting-edge Unreal Engine technology on a AAA live-service title.
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.
Unreal-powered projects have been on the bleeding edge of real-time entertainment for over 20 years. Our team of engineering experts are always innovating to improve the tools and technology that empower content developers worldwide.
The Fortnite Tech Desktop team is looking for an experienced Engine Programmer to enhance the player experience on the PC platform. You will work with other engineers and directly contribute to building and improving our Desktop platform support to an industry-leading state.
This role covers a wide range of specialties, focusing on stability and performance engineering and ensuring critical features are available and performant for the Fortnite user base.
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.
Epic Games is a leading interactive entertainment company. For over 30 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.
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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- Analyze and resolve stability and performance problems of Fortnite on a wide range of PC hardware configurations, including CPU/GPU issues, platform toolchains, and low-level system interfaces. - Monitor stability and performance data from Fortnite releases, address live issues, and improve Unreal Engine's systems for Fortnite. - Build and maintain Fortnite's support across PC storefronts, operating systems, and architectures (e.g., Epic Games Store, Microsoft Store, Windows on ARM). - Collaborate with Epic teams within Fortnite and Unreal Engine to solve complex technical challenges. - Strong C++ knowledge and multi-threaded programming techniques. - Experience in profiling and optimizing a large codebase. - Ability to diagnose, debug, and action complex problems from a live-service title, and experience handling stability issues. - Demonstrated ability to reason about and debug large, interacting systems. - Preferred: Experience with Linux, such as profiling and optimizing code that also runs on servers. - A plus: Experience with OS-level systems, Windows/Linux APIs, and common frameworks.