Senior Cloud Engineer

Infrastructure Engineering

Confirmed live in the last 24 hours

Locations

Guildford, UK

Experience Level

Entry

Junior

Mid

Senior

Expert

Desired Skills

AWS

C/C++/C#

Java

Rust

Kubernetes

Requirements

In-depth experience in Golang, or other languages like Java, C/C++, or Rust
Excellent understanding of AWS networking components
Good understanding of network principles
Extensive knowledge of working with AWS and Kubernetes solutions like EKS

Responsibilities

Work as part of our global network control plane team developing automation that will focus on making it easier for our developers to get the connectivity they need in AWS
Develop high quality, stable code for use in web services, libraries and tools
Write and publish RFCs, design specifications and developer documentation
Problem solve at every layer of the technology stack
Participate in bottom up planning around release schedules, workload and priority
Design for privacy, security, compliance, high availability, performance and resilience across all web services and infrastructure capabilities

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.

ONLINE INFRASTRUCTURE

What We Do

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 a massive scale as one of the largest cloud computing users in the world.

What You’ll Do

As a Senior Cloud Software Engineer in the Infrastructure Engineering organization you will work on the Cloud Developer Platform and Interfaces that enable streamlined application and service development on top of our Cloud Infrastructure. As a customer centric engineering organization, you’ll work closely with our customers ensuring fast turn around of feature requests and bug fixes. You will be working on capabilities that will reduce engineering effort to provision, deploy, configure, update and repair activities during the lifecycle of an application, game or service running on our cloud infrastructure. You will work with multiple teams across the globe and help us to continue evolving as a center of excellence both for Cloud Infrastructure as well as Online Game Developer Experience. We are a dev+ops style organization practicing, “you build it, you run it” for all capabilities that we offer.

In this role, you will

Work as part of our global network control plane team developing automation that will focus on making it easier for our developers to get the connectivity they need in AWS
Develop high quality, stable code for use in web services, libraries and tools
Write and publish RFCs, design specifications and developer documentation
Problem solve at every layer of the technology stack
Participate in bottom up planning around release schedules, workload and priority
Design for privacy, security, compliance, high availability, performance and resilience across all web services and infrastructure capabilities

What we’re looking for

In-depth experience in Golang, or other languages like Java, C/C++, or Rust
Excellent understanding of AWS networking components
Good understanding of network principles
Extensive knowledge of working with AWS and Kubernetes solutions like EKS

ABOUT US

Epic Games spans across 19 countries with 55 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!

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.

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.

1,001-5,000 employees

Website

Video game developer (makers of Fortnight)

Company Overview

Epic is a leading interactive entertainment company and provider of 3D engine technology. Epic operates Fortnite, one of the world’s largest games with over 350 million accounts. Epic also develops Unreal Engine, which powers the world’s leading games and is also adopted across industries such as film and television, architecture, automotive, manufacturing, and simulation. Through Unreal Engine, Epic Games Store, and Epic Online Services, Epic provides an end-to-end digital ecosystem for developers and creators to build, distribute, and operate games and other content.

Benefits

Health coverage - 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 and profit share
Robust mental well-being programs & free therapy and coaching for employees & dependents
Unlimited PTO & sick time
Paid sabbatical