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Senior Backend Engineer

Senior Backend Engineer

CompanyEpic Games
LocationBellevue, WA, USA
Salary$172736 – $253347
TypeFull-Time
Degrees
Experience LevelSenior

Requirements

  • Proficiency with a major cloud provider, AWS preferred
  • Excellent knowledge in a backend language like C# or Java (C# and C++ experience preferred)
  • Experience with technologies for geo-distribution and consistency
  • Experience working with high performance low latency systems
  • Demonstrated ability to reason about large, interacting systems from the macro-level to the micro-level
  • Experience profiling and optimizing a large codebase
  • Comfortable writing multithreaded code and reasoning about dependency graphs and content pipeline for large games
  • Ability to work across North American time zones is required

Responsibilities

  • Build out and operate cloud infrastructure for high efficiency storage and replication of game and editor data
  • Optimize iteration times, and improve existing systems for performance, memory usage, and user experience
  • Develop custom tools and pipelines for other engineers and content creators
  • Work with large complex code base and understand and resolve performance issues
  • Establish test workflows to validate performance improvements and prevent regressions
  • Support external North American customers by answering their technical requests and questions

Preferred Qualifications

    No preferred qualifications provided.