Senior Backend Programmer (SCM & CI/CD)

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.

ONLINE INFRASTRUCTURE

What We Do

We enable Epic’s online services teams to build, deploy, and manage services that are used by more than half a billion players around the world. Our mission is to provide world class tools and platforms to improve the experience of our developers and make it easier, faster, and safer to build, operate, and scale their applications. We operate at massive scale as one of the largest cloud computing users in the world.

What You'll Do

You'll own the backend systems behind Epic's CI/CD and build tooling and the cloud infrastructure they run on. These systems carry code from commit to production for teams across Epic, so they need to be fast, reliable and secure. Your primary focus is software supply chain security: securing the pipelines, runners and artifact stores that build and ship our software, working closely with our security and governance teams. This is a hands-on technical lead role. You'll spend most of your time building and running systems yourself, while helping set the team's technical direction, architecture and goals. Epic is an agentic-programming-first company. You'll be expected to use Al coding tools and agents as a normal part of how you work, and help shape how we apply them to our own infrastructure.

In this role, you will

• Design, build and operate the backend infrastructure for our CI/CD and artifact platforms on AWS and GCP
• Lead software supply chain security work, including vulnerability scanning, artifact signing and provenance, and hardening of build runners and agents
• Partner with security and governance teams on controls, audits and compliance requirements, and turn them into practical changes to tools and pipelines
• Help set technical direction for the platform: weigh in on design, priorities and longer-term goals, and document the decisions
• Guide and review the work of a team of contractors, setting clear tasks and standards and keeping the work moving
• Automate wherever possible, with infrastructure as code, self-service tooling and workflows that reduce manual work
• Improve the reliability, scale and observability of the build platform, troubleshoot hard production issues, and take part in incident response
• Use AI coding tools and agentic workflows in your own work, and help apply them to how the team builds and runs its systems

What we're looking for

• Strong experience running cloud infrastructure on AWS (experience with GCP or Azure is also welcome)
• Experience deploying and maintaining environments with infrastructure as code (Terraform or similar) and configuration management tools
• Hands-on experience running Kubernetes in production
• Experience operating CI/CD and version control systems at scale, such as Lore, GitHub Actions, TeamCity, Codefresh, Jenkins, GitHub, GitLab or Perforce
• Working knowledge of software supply chain security: vulnerability scanning, artifact and container registries, secrets management, and hardening build infrastructure
• Strong scripting and programming skills in Python, Go, Bash or similar
• Comfortable with Al coding tools and agentic programming, and interested in how far they can be pushed in infrastructure work
• Experience leading technical work, such as making design decisions, mentoring programmers, or directing contractors or vendors
• Excellent communicator, able to work across security, governance and programming teams
• Experience with security or compliance frameworks in a large organization would be a plus

This role is open to multiple locations in North America (including CA & 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).

California Base Pay Range

$190,010—$278,682 USD

Washington Base Pay Range

$172,736—$253,347 USD

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.

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