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 INFRASTRUCTUREWhat We Do
We enable Epic’s online services teams to build, deploy, and manage services used by more than half a billion players around the world. Our mission is to provide world-class tools and platforms to improve the developers' experience 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
The Service Management Platform (SMP) team is part of the Developer Platform organization. We develop platforms and tools that enable Epic developers to focus on innovation and make it easy for them to do the right thing (e.g., compliance, cost efficiency, operational excellence). We enable hundreds of teams at Epic to build, deploy, and manage services that are used by more than half a billion players around the world.
SMP is focused on two important objectives with enormous impact across the company:
- Protect the privacy of Epic’s game players
- Provide a single pane of glass for Epic internal services management
We are looking for a senior Full Stack Engineer to play a key role in:
- Build a developer portal based on Backstage (backstage.io) to provide the key information to engineers and to serve as an entry point to all platform services
- Make sure that the service catalog data is complete and satisfies compliance and legal safeguards to improve Epic data compliance and privacy standards
In this role, you will
- Develop features, plugins, and integrations that ensure a convenient and consistent UI/UX interface for customers and partners
- Improve and maintain an existing codebase
- Use a wide range of technologies - such as React, Node, and Typescript
- Utilize AWS infrastructure to operate Backstage
- Collaborate with owners of Epic services to plan service integrations into the platform
- Mentor our engineers and help them learn and adopt industry best practices
What we're looking for
- Experience with React, TypeScript, and good knowledge of frontend frameworks
- Ideally, some experience building and maintaining developer platforms/portals; Backstage is a plus
- Understanding of authorization and authentication mechanisms: OAuth, OpenID, JWTs
- Knowledge of Javascript-oriented build tooling (webpack, ESLint, etc.), CI tools (such as GitHub Actions)
- Experience working with SQL and NoSQL databases
- Some experience with cloud (we use AWS)
- Testing-oriented mindset: unit, integration, and end-to-end
- Focus on service maintainability, automation, and security
- Can-do attitude and willingness to learn new things every day
- Ability to support others, helping them make the right technological choices for their environment
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.
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.
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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.
