Lead Engine Programmer, Core Systems

Epic Games•Cary, NC

About The Position

WHAT MAKES US EPIC? 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. PROGRAMMING - UNREAL ENGINE What We Do 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. What You'll Do Epic Games seeks an experienced Senior Engine Programmer to join our Developer Experience and Efficiency team. In this role, you’ll develop low-level tools and improve the performance of systems that all UE and UEFN users use to build and ship their games, as well as pipelines Epic uses internally to ship the Unreal Engine and games like Fortnite. The ideal candidate will love practical problem-solving and have a passion for improving the day-to-day workflow of other developers.

Requirements

Excellent C++ knowledge
Comfortable writing multithreaded code and reasoning about dependency graphs and content pipeline for large games
Experience in profiling and optimizing a large codebase
Demonstrated ability to reason about large, interacting systems from the macro-level to the micro-level
Someone passionate, solution-oriented, proactive, and autonomous

Nice To Haves

Good knowledge of the reflection system and serialization versioning is a plus

Responsibilities

Optimize iteration times and improve existing systems for performance, memory usage, and user experience
Develop custom tools and pipelines for other programmers and content creators
Work with a large, complex code base to understand and resolve performance issues
Establish test workflows to validate performance improvements and prevent regressions
Support external customers by answering their technical requests and questions

Benefits

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.

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