Senior Backend Engineer
About The Position
Epic Games is hiring a Senior Backend Engineer for its Online Infrastructure organization, on the AI Engineering team. The team provides tools and platforms that help Epic’s online services teams build, deploy, and manage services used by more than half a billion players worldwide. It operates at massive scale and aims to make it easier, faster, and safer for developers to build, operate, and scale applications. In this role, you will provide technical leadership and strategic direction for AI-powered platforms, tools, and services that improve development velocity and productivity across Epic. You will guide engineers building products such as unified AI code review systems, cloud agent hosting, a centralized AI knowledge base, and developer experience tools used across the company. The role combines hands-on engineering with architectural leadership, including working with AI agents to implement, test, release, and operate critical platforms. The position is open to multiple locations across the United States, including Washington. The Washington annual base pay range is $223,199–$327,358. Compensation depends on factors such as skills, qualifications, knowledge, and experience. Most employees are eligible for Epic’s benefit plans and discretionary incentive programs, subject to applicable plan terms.
Requirements
- Bachelor of Science in Computer Science or equivalent experience.
- At least 10 years of experience building production software systems.
- Track record of providing technical leadership for complex software projects from conception through delivery at scale.
- Experience leading the technical design, architectural strategy, and initial build-out of new platforms before they are fully staffed and scaled.
- Expert-level experience with REST APIs, microservices, and distributed systems.
- Experience operating and orchestrating scalable services on Kubernetes, including container lifecycle management and security configurations.
- Experience with and strong interest in using and building AI-assisted development tools, such as Claude Code, Cursor, or Copilot.
- Ability to turn ambiguous organizational problems into concrete technical strategies and drive them to completion.
Responsibilities
- Provide technical leadership and architectural vision for production-grade AI developer tools used across Epic’s major codebases, including Unreal Engine and Fortnite.
- Drive architectural decisions for scalable, maintainable developer-facing tools across CLI and desktop tools, web applications, build process integrations, services, and APIs.
- Establish patterns and standards for modern AI frameworks and agent architectures.
- Partner with leadership and high-value teams to identify strategic opportunities and design, build, and validate new platforms.
- Design and implement AI platform security, governance, and compliance protocols, including secret management, workload identity, and runtime isolation policies.
- Define measurement strategies and success metrics to track impact and improve tool effectiveness.
- Mentor and develop software engineers, conduct architecture reviews, and promote technical excellence.
- Work hands-on to build complex system components and use AI agents to implement, test, release, and operate critical platforms.
Benefits
- Most employees are eligible to participate in Epic’s benefit plans and discretionary incentive programs, subject to applicable plan terms.
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What This Job Offers
Job Type
Full-time
Career Level
Senior
