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Senior Engineer, Data Platform

ENGINEERING

What We Do

Our mission is to provide a world class platform to empower the business to leverage data to enhance, monitor, and support our products. We are responsible for data ingestion systems, processing pipelines, and various data stores all operating in the cloud. We operate at petabyte scale, and support near real time use cases as well as more traditional batch approaches.

What You'll Do

Epic is looking for a Sr. Engineer, Data Platform to join a growing team of data professionals who provide valued insights across all of Epic's games and the Unreal Engine. In this position, you will build systems to stream data from our game clients and servers into the various systems that make up the data ecosystem at Epic.

In this role, you will

• Design, build, and maintain all parts of the data pipeline to support gamer behavior analysis and device telemetry (requirements understanding, data enrichment, data modeling)
• Build and expand upon existing data systems to help the business leverage data to support our products
• Champion better cross-functional data integration efforts, both upstream and downstream
• Evolve existing flink based streaming solutions to meet the growing demands of the business

What we're looking for

• Minimum 5 years of experience in a data-­driven information environment, designing and implementing analytic/data systems,­ ideally in a video gaming context
• Detail­-oriented and comfortable working with requirements that are open-ended
• Experience and familiarity with big data tools and services, such as Kafka, Hive, AWS, Hadoop, Presto, Spark, S3, Flink or similar
• Ideal candidate has experience working with Kubernetes or similar containerized deployment model
• Experience working in a cloud based environment, ideally familiar with the AWS toolset
• Expertise in one or more programming languages (Kotlin preferred, Scala and Java beneficial)
• Comfort with software development methodology around unit testing, performance tuning, integration testing, etc.
• Experience in real-time data processing
• Passion for video games and/or video game technology

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.

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).