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.
Our Data & Analytics teams build powerful stories and visuals that inform the games we make, the technology we develop, and business decisions that drive Epic.
What You'll DoEpic Games is seeking to expand its Insights team with a focus on Observability. We are looking for a Data Scientist to assist us in delivering and maintaining an Epic-quality live service game. This role wears many hats, juggles dynamic priorities, and works toward constantly moving targets. You'll create Data Tools, Workbooks, and Dashboards to support global Epic Development and Publishing efforts.
In this role, you will- Expand on Epic’s real-time Observability Framework by building, maintaining, and working with stakeholders to produce insightful product health monitoring and alerting.
- Educate key stakeholders on real-time data and provide clear sources of truth to make high-velocity data-driven decisions.
- Advocate for the player – coordinate across multiple disciplines, teams, and time zones to maintain a high-quality live service product.
- Dig into data, utilizing existing tools and rapid ad-hoc querying and visualization to help resolve active live issues.
- Drive Observability evolution – continuously re-evaluate existing dashboards for opportunities to improve our data story. Work with Data Teams to leverage the latest data features and tools.
- Direct experience building or maintaining observability for live service games, including familiarity with instrumentation, event schemas, real-time alerting, and health dashboards
- Proficiency with Grafana, DataDog, Kibana, or Amazon CloudWatch
- Proficiency with JPath, PromQL, SQL, or strong knowledge of scripting languages.
- Prior experience in analytics, project management, release management, production, or analytics qa.
- Strong in-the-moment problem-solving skills and ability to break large problems into manageable and actionable pieces.
- Ability to communicate equally effectively with both technical and non-technical stakeholders at all levels.
- Flexible availability - including on-call - and strong time management skills.
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.
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!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.
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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.
