Senior Engine Programmer, Unreal Cloud Services

WHAT MAKES US EPIC?

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.

ENGINEERING - UNREAL ENGINE

What We Do

Unreal-powered projects have been on the bleeding edge of real-time entertainment for over 20 years. Our team of engineering experts are always innovating to improve the tools and technology that empower content developers worldwide.

What You ll Do

Join Unreal Cloud Services, the team behind Lore (Epic s next-generation, open-source version control system built for the future of game development). You ll work at the boundary between editor and cloud, making distributed workflows, collaboration, and version control feel like a natural part of the creator experience. As Unreal evolves toward UE6, you ll help bring these capabilities together into a cohesive editor experience.

In this role, you will

Build Unreal Editor features that bring cloud-based collaboration into everyday creator workflows

Implement responsive editor experiences that interact with asynchronous and distributed servi

Work across editor, networking, storage, revision control, and UX systems to make cloud-backed workflows feel natural to Unreal Engi

Partner with Product and UX teams to turn product ideas into clear, practical, and polished editor experiences

Collaborate with backend and infrastructure engineers on features that span the editor and cloud services

Use modern development practices, including AI-assisted programming, to improve implementation, debugging, and iteration

What we re looking for

Strong C++ skills and experience working in a large native codebase

Experience building user-facing tools, editor features, and complex interactive workflows

Experience building clients that interact with asynchronous or networked services

Strong understanding of parallelism, networking, latency, and failure handling

Strong eye for user experience and how technical behavior affects creator workflows

Experience working closely with Product, UX, and engineering teams to ship features

Experience with Unreal Engine, another game engine, or comparable tools development

Experience with Rust is a plus

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.

ABOUT US

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.

Like what you hear? Come be a part of something Epic!

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