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What You'll DoWe're looking for a Build Programmer passionate about CI/CD, automation, and developer productivity to help build and maintain the infrastructure that powers Rocket League. You'll partner with engineering, QA, production, and infrastructure teams to create reliable, scalable build systems that enable developers to ship high-quality software efficiently.
In this role, you'll improve build pipelines, optimize developer workflows, and create tools that reduce friction across the software development lifecycle. Your work will directly impact how quickly teams can iterate, validate changes, and deliver world-class experiences to millions of users.
In this role, you will- Collaborate with developers, QA, Production, and Release to optimize their workflows for Rocket League
- Design, maintain, and improve build automation systems and CI/CD pipelines for large-scale game projects
- Monitor build health, troubleshoot failures, and drive root-cause analysis to improve pipeline stability
- Own and support various tools and processes owned by the Rocket League Build Programming Team
- Support software releases by ensuring build systems remain reliable and responsive during critical milestones
- Strong communication and collaboration skills, with the ability to work effectively across multidisciplinary teams
- Experience building and maintaining CI/CD pipelines and modern build automation systems
- Strong understanding of software build systems, dependency management, and release engineering best practices
- Proficiency with languages such as C#, Python, PowerShell, or Bash to automate development workflows
- Experience with version control systems such as Perforce or Git
- Familiarity with cloud infrastructure (AWS, Azure, or GCP) and administering Windows-based build environments; Linux experience is a plus
- Strong troubleshooting and problem-solving skills with a focus on reliability, scalability, and developer productivity
We pay 100% for benefits for both employees (EEs) and dependents (deps). Our current benefits package includes coverage for medical, dental, and life insurance. We also offer supplemental benefits including daily meal vouchers, and commuter benefits for onsite employees.
Epic Games is a leading interactive entertainment company. For over 30 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.
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Skills Required
- Experience building and maintaining CI/CD pipelines and modern build automation systems
- Strong understanding of software build systems, dependency management, and release engineering best practices
- Proficiency with C#, Python, PowerShell, or Bash to automate development workflows
- Experience with version control systems such as Perforce or Git
- Familiarity with cloud infrastructure (AWS, Azure, or GCP)
- Administering Windows-based build environments
- Linux experience
- Strong communication, collaboration, troubleshooting, and problem-solving skills
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Equity Value & Accessibility — Stock options and sizable bonuses are highlighted as meaningful parts of total compensation, with some describing pay as unmatched. Feedback suggests equity and incentives materially enhance perceived compensation.
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Leave & Time Off Breadth — Generous time off, paid holidays, and sabbaticals are referenced alongside improvements in work-life balance. Feedback suggests paid leave breadth helps offset demanding periods.
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What We Do
Founded in 1991, Epic Games is an American company founded by CEO Tim Sweeney. The company is headquartered in Cary, North Carolina, and has more than 50 offices worldwide. Today Epic is a leading interactive entertainment company and provider of 3D engine technology. Epic operates one of the world’s largest games, Fortnite, and Epic has over 600 million accounts with over 5 billion friend connections across Fortnite, Fall Guys, Rocket League, and the Epic Games Store. 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.
