SOCIAL ECOSYSTEM
What We Do
Social Ecosystem is the Epic organization that owns the answers to three questions: Who are our players? How are they organized? and What can they do together? These areas of concern cover responsibilities including account management, parties, voice chat, child safety, in-game social overlay, stewardship of personal data, and more. Our platform is designed to be used by developers within and beyond the walls of the Epic ecosystem, and supports exciting titles like Fortnite, Rocket League, and Fall Guys.
What You'll Do
As a member of our team, you will craft highly available, high throughput, low latency services at scale, synchronous and asynchronous services, persistent connection services, and a variety of other systems. These will all help to power our internal products and enable external development teams all over the world. The Online Services team is a collaborative environment and a successful candidate will help to foster an open, supportive culture in which everyone can be successful and their authentic self.
In this role, you will
Get things done: Epic empowers engineers to assess a challenge, craft a solution, and implement it
Write distributed systems to handle large-scale challenges (we use Scala, Java)
Work with public cloud infrastructure to facilitate a fast-moving ecosystem (we use AWS)
Own the entire lifecycle of services, including live operations and deployment
Craft solutions using modern SQL and nonrelational databases (we use Dynamodb and Redis)
Work together with both upstream and downstream service owners, producers, and other cloud, infrastructure, and embedded DevOps engineers to ship solutions
Own the outcome - Be accountable for the solutions you build and flexible around the ambiguity of the problem space
What we're looking for
5+ years of software engineering experience, with experience in developing online systems
Proven track record of operating live services at scale
Experience working with a team of engineers to solve large and ambiguous problems
Excellent communication skills including the ability to provide, solicit, and accept feedback constructively
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.
