Remote Senior Backend Engineer

Summary

Join Epic Games, a global leader in game development and engine technology, as a Backend Engineer to support existing services and design/deploy new cloud systems for collaborative content creation.

Requirements

• Passionate about building and maintaining secure, scalable, and highly available online applications, with 7+ years of experience in creating online services or web systems
• Proven track record of contributing live services at scale
• Proficient in cloud technologies, preferably AWS cloud services, Unix-flavored operating systems, CI/CD environments, and deploying and running containerized services
• Must be comfortable with Javascript/Typescript. Additional experience in other languages is a plus, especially Rust
• Ability to craft solutions using SQL and nonrelational databases
• Positive communication skills including the ability to provide, solicit, and accept feedback constructively

Responsibilities

• Design, implement, and maintain scalable, secure, highly-available backend services using RESTful API and gRPC protocols
• Own the entire lifecycle of services, from design and implementation to deployment
• Work on an existing AWS cloud infrastructure
• Work together with both upstream and downstream service owners, producers, and infrastructure to ship solutions
• Participate in a light-weight on-call rotation, along with the entire cloud services team

Benefits

• 100% of premiums for both you and your dependents for Medical, Dental, a Vision HRA, Long Term Disability, Life Insurance & a 401k with competitive match
• Robust mental well-being program through Modern Health, which provides free therapy and coaching for employees & dependents
• Unlimited PTO and sick time
• Paid sabbatical for 7 years of employment