Senior Software Engineer, Data Platform - Epic Games

DATA ENGINEERING

What We Do

Our mission is to provide a world-class platform that empowers the business to leverage data that will enhance, monitor, and support our products. We are responsible for data ingestion systems, processing pipelines, and various data stores all operating in the cloud. We operate at a petabyte scale and support near real-time use cases as well as more traditional batch approaches.

What You'll Do

Epic is looking for a Software Engineer to join a growing team of data professionals who provide valued insights across all of Epic's games and the Unreal Engine. In this position, you will build distributed systems that receive and process stream data from our game clients and servers into the various backend systems that make up the data ecosystem at Epic.

In this role, you will

• Partner with internal customers across Epic to understand and document business needs
• Create technical designs, seeking and sharing feedback with the team
• Develop and maintain large-scale data services with excellent observability and debuggability
• Provide on-call support for services the team owns
• Bring consistency and increase dev velocity on a myriad of services that compose the Platform

What we're looking for

• Experience working with data teams and their customers (data scientists, analysts, engineers implementing telemetry, engineers developing data infrastructure and pipelines)
• Seeks to win and grow as a team
• Proactively solves problems across a wide area of ownership
• Continuously seeks to improve and demonstrates proficiency through output
• Experience with distributed event streaming (Kafka), OLAP databases (Pinot, Clickhouse), data lakes and warehouses (S3, Databricks, Snowflake), and distributed query engines (Flink, Spark)
• Experience developing containerized services (Kubernetes) in a cloud environment (AWS)
• Expertise in the JVM stack

This role is open to multiple locations across the US (including WA).

Pay Transparency Information

The expected annual base pay range(s) for this position are detailed below. Each base pay range is relevant only for individuals who are residents of or will be expected to work within the specified locale. Compensation varies based on a variety of factors, which include (but aren’t limited to) things such as skills and competencies, qualifications, knowledge, and experience. In addition to base pay, most employees are eligible to participate in Epic’s generous benefit plans and discretionary incentive programs (subject to the terms of those plans or programs).