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Senior Network application Engineer

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 At Epic

What we do
We make RealityCapture, the photogrammetry software that is changing the industry. Unbeaten, game-changing technology used by the world’s biggest game and movie studios.

What you´ll do
We’re looking for an experienced Senior Network Applications Engineer to join our team and work with the product owner and engineering directors to provide architecture overview, insights, and limits.

In this role, you will be responsible for
● The candidate will be responsible for developing highly optimal algorithms and top-class technology features and innovations for our application
● Work with service owners, producers, and other cloud, infrastructure, and embedded DevOps engineers to codify and model existing workflows and processes into standardized tooling used by Epic development teams
● Designing and implementing native c++ Windows/Linux modules providing secure communication between local network computers, and to global services; optimizing connection bandwidth and latency;
● Build applications to provide visibility and control of complex release workflows and deployments at scale
● Delivering full projects with a scope/complexity larger than an individual end-to-end feature
● Contributing to shaping the future platform, product vision, and roadmap
● Mentoring other team members through technical guidance and code reviews, follow industry trends, and maintain a strong interest in emerging technologies and best
practices practiced across the industry

What we’re looking for
● 10+ years deep domain expertise as network application developer: You must have written a peer-to-peer application preferably in C++
● Advanced Microsoft Visual C++ programming skills
● Hands-on working experience with networking layers, protocols, architectures, and projects like TCP, UDP, TURN/STUN, Secure connections like TSL, WebSocket,
WebRTC, REST API, etc.
● Practical hands-on experience with Software product development life cycle and
delivering Software to consumers
● Ability to design optimal algorithms with respect to time complexity and memory requirements
● Hands-on working knowledge of AWS and cloud infrastructure
● Hands-on experience with serverless app development with AWS
● Hands-on experience with S3, EC2 & EKS / Kubernetes, and other AWS services
● Hands-on experience with SQL and Non-SQL Databases: MySQL, DynamoDB, etc.
● Experience with network administration: You have set up VPCs, subnets, peering,
private links; You have practical hands-on knowledge of DNS
● Working knowledge of SVN or Git

Bonus skills
● Full-stack Web development skills
● Complex distributed environment troubleshooting experience
● Interest in Machine Learning
● Experience working on a globally distributed team

Soft skills
● Ability to work independently, without constant oversight
● Reliability and consistency with tasks
● Ability to communicate and drive objectives effectively with multiple stakeholders

About Us
Epic Games spans across 12 countries with 32 studios and 1,800+ employees globally. For over 25 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.

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 for 100% of the premiums for both you and your dependents. We offer coverage for Medical, Dental, Vision HRA, Long Term Disability, AD&D and Life Insurance, 401k, and profit-sharing.

All Epic employees enjoy drinks, snacks, and lunches every day, free of charge - and we offer plenty of annual celebrations for employees and family members to show the love for our people.
Additionally, each year, we celebrate the Epic family with company-wide paid breaks, generous paid time off, and recognise individuals for 7 years of employment with a paid sabbatical - we think our
people are pretty awesome!

This role can be based in:

Any of our Europe offices where we have a presence

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Epic Games deeply values diverse teams and an inclusive work culture, and we are proud to be an Equal Opportunity employer. Learn more about our Equal Employment Opportunity (EEO) Policy here.