Epic Games

Senior Engine Programmer, Unreal Cloud Services

Epic Games$110K — $130K *
Enterprise Technology
Less than 5 years of experience
Job Overview by Ladders

Qualifications

  • Strong C++ skills with experience in large native codebases
  • Experience in building user-facing tools and editor features
  • Familiarity with asynchronous or networked service clients
  • Solid understanding of parallelism, networking, and latency issues
  • Strong focus on user experience in relation to technical workflows
  • Collaboration with Product and UX teams on feature delivery
  • Experience with Unreal Engine or similar tools, Rust experience a plus

Responsibilities

  • Build features in Unreal Editor for cloud-based collaboration
  • Implement responsive editor functionalities interfacing with distributed services
  • Work across various systems to enhance cloud-backed workflows
  • Collaborate with Product and UX teams to create polished experiences
  • Partner with backend developers on features linking editor and cloud services
  • Utilize modern development practices, including AI-assisted programming

Benefits

  • 100% benefits coverage for employees and dependents
  • Supplemental medical, dental, and vision coverage
  • Critical illness and telemedicine options
  • Life, AD&D, and long-term disability insurance
  • Short-term disability coverage
  • Retirement savings plan with competitive employer match
  • Robust mental well-being program including free therapy and coaching
Full Job Description
PROGRAMMING - 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 programming 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 programmers 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 programming 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

We pay 100% for benefits for both employees and dependents and offer coverage for supplemental medical, dental, vision, critical illness, telemedicine, Life and AD&D, long term disability insurance as well as weekly indemnity (short term disability) and a retirement savings plan with a competitive employer match. In addition to the EAP (employee assistance program), we also offer a robust mental well-being program through Modern Health, which provides free therapy and coaching for employees & dependents.

About Epic Games

Epic Games is a video game development company that is best known for creating the popular game Fortnite. The company was founded in 1991 by Tim Sweeney and is headquartered in Cary, North Carolina. Epic Games has developed a number of other successful games, including the Unreal series and Gears of War. The company is also known for its Unreal Engine, a game engine that is used by many other game developers. Epic Games is committed to advancing the state of the art in game development and creating innovative and engaging experiences for players.
Learn more about Epic Games
Size
2,700 employees
Industry
Founded
1991

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