// Open Role at Epic Games
Epic Games seeks a Principal Backend Programmer to lead the technical strategy for their developer platform, encompassing source control, CI/CD, and cloud infrastructure. You'll tackle large-scale challenges, rebuild systems for massive agentic CI/CD actions, and mentor senior programmers.
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.
We enable Epic’s online services teams to build, deploy, and manage services that are used by more than half a billion players around the world. Our mission is to provide world class tools and platforms to improve the experience of our developers and make it easier, faster, and safer to build, operate, and scale their applications. We operate at massive scale as one of the largest cloud computing users in the world.
You'll be the senior technical voice across Epic's developer platform: the source control, CI/CD, build, artifact, database and cloud infrastructure that teams across Epic use to build and ship their work. You'll look at problems across systems and teams, and set the technical strategy for where the platform needs to go. The primary focus of this role is rebuilding and scaling our systems to handle millions of agentic CICD actions per day. You'll work across teams to understand their requirements and usage patterns, negotiate trade-offs with cost and feasibility in mind, and build and deploy the changes needed. Beyond that, this is a role for someone we can point at a hard, ambiguous problem in any domain or team and trust to understand it, decide what to do, and get it solved, whether that means designing the system and building it yourself, or bringing the right people together. Epic is an agentic-programming-first company. You'll be expected to use Al coding tools and agents as a normal part of how you work, and help shape how we apply them to our own infrastructure.
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 match. In 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.
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 (https://www.epicgames.com/site/en-US/eeo-policy).
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 (https://www.epicgames.com/note-to-recruitment-agencies).
- Extensive experience designing and operating large-scale infrastructure and developer platforms, with a track record of shaping strategy across multiple systems and teams - Deep experience with cloud infrastructure on AWS and/or GCP, Kubernetes, and infrastructure as code - Broad knowledge of source control, CI/CD and build systems at scale, and of how they fit together end to end - Strong understanding of software supply chain and infrastructure security, and experience working with security and governance teams - A track record of leading cross-team technical initiatives from an ambiguous problem through to delivered results - Still a strong hands-on programmer, comfortable writing production code and tooling in Python, Go or similar - Experienced with Al coding tools and agentic programming, with opinions on how teams should adopt them - Excellent written and verbal communicator, able to explain complex trade-offs to programmers and leadership alike - Good judgment in ambiguous situations, and comfortable making decisions with incomplete information - Experience with databases or data infrastructure at scale (plus) - Experience working with cloud providers and vendors on capacity, roadmap or commercial topics (plus)