Senior Backend Engineer (.Net)

Job Description

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

Epic Games is searching for an experienced senior programmer to join our developer platform team. You'll work on Horde, our in-house platform that powers CI/CD, remote execution, build health, storage, and other services critical to developer iteration and workflows. This platform is key to delivering our internal game projects and supports numerous organizations outside of Epic.

In this role, you will

• Collaborate with mixed discipline teams across Epic and multiple time zones to help steer Horde's architecture, ensuring new features are scalable, maintainable, and fit the overall design
• Take ownership of parts of the Horde codebase, implementing new features, fixing bugs, and supporting internal teams and Unreal licensees
• Develop and extend the Horde plugin architecture across Build, Compute, Storage, Secrets, and Tools

What we're looking for

• Deep experience developing CI/CD systems for large-scale, high-volume environments, preferably in a live service setting
• Expert knowledge of C# and .NET, including multithreading and memory management / reducing memory pressure
• Strong backend and server architecture knowledge, ideally with ASP.NET, gRPC, MongoDB, and Redis
• Experience working with cloud solutions such as AWS or Azure
• Strong communication skills across technical and non-technical audiences
• Experience developing web frontends is a plus
• Experience leveraging agentic engineering tools in your workflows is a plus

Note to Recruitment Agencies: Epic does not accept any unsolicited resumes or approaches from any unauthorized third party (including recruitment or placement agencies) (i.e., a third party with whom we do not have a negotiated and validly executed agreement). We will not pay any fees to any unauthorized third party. Further details on these matters can be found here.

Jobcode: Reference SBJ-mk1j82-216-73-216-67-42 in your application.