Senior Backend Engineer

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.

ENGINEERING - EPIC GAMES SERVICES

What We Do

Driving the plug-in power behind Unreal Engine 5. We bridge connections for licensees and our own internal game teams to online services. This allows games like Fortnite to utilize a combination of platform online services as well as Epic’s own online services to build cross-platform online features. Login, parties, voice chat, matchmaking, purchasing, cloud storage, and analytics are just a few examples of online features that our Online Game Services team helps games utilize.

What You'll Do

Epic Games is looking for a Senior Backend Engineer, Safety Platform, to develop and improve platforms that protect our users and players on a global scale. Your work will have a direct impact on the health of our community and the success of Epic products and partners who depend on them. We’re especially interested in engineers who have built highly scalable backend systems in safety-adjacent domains (e.g., content moderation, anti-abuse, identity, fraud, risk, enforcement, or policy tooling). Content moderation experience is a plus, but not required. In this role, you’ll build services and infrastructure with a strong awareness of how architectural decisions impact user safety, privacy, and trust. You’re a self-starter who thrives in ambiguity, is outcomes-focused, and builds alignment across teams to deliver measurable improvements.

In this role, you will

• Design, build, and own highly scalable backend services that power safety and enforcement capabilities


• Serve as a code owner for multiple services and codebases, contributing directly and leading by example


• Partner closely with engineers, QA, product managers, and stakeholders to gather requirements and deliver well-architected solutions


• Drive operational excellence: reliability, observability, incident response, and continuous improvement


• Participate in code reviews and raise the bar for engineering quality, maintainability, and security


• Identify and execute opportunities to simplify systems, reduce risk, and improve performance and developer velocity

What we're looking for

• 5+ years of professional software engineering experience building highly available services


• Strong experience designing and operating distributed systems, APIs, and service deployments in production


• Expert knowledge of Go (Golang) for backend services


• Experience with modern DevOps toolchains and practices (Docker, Kubernetes, Terraform, CI/CD such as GitHub Actions)


• Experience with cloud infrastructure and infrastructure-as-code (AWS preferred)


• Strong communication skills and a track record of effective cross-functional collaboration


• User-focused and pragmatic: solutions-oriented, and able to make sound tradeoffs

EPIC JOB + EPIC BENEFITS = EPIC LIFE

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.

ABOUT US

Epic Games spans across 25 countries with 46 studios and 4,500+ employees globally. For over 25 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.

Like what you hear? Come be a part of something Epic!

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