Epic Games is growing operations inside our development teams to support operations of our large-scale, highly available, secure, infrastructure behind Epic Games social networks. The person in this role will work closely with software engineering, customer service, quality assurance, community, and product teams to provide online services that enhance the user experience for all of Epic’s social systems. This role is geared towards efforts supporting our Social offerings, like Houseparty and Party Hub. This role will help this team with items around operational excellence such as observability and performance at scale.

Responsibilities

• Design and build operational infrastructure to support social networks, automating where possible
• Provide troubleshooting and timely resolution of system, network, security and infrastructure problems
• Provide operational support for developers on the team
• Scaling infrastructure to meet growth

Qualifications

• Proven experience with Linux, and cloud computing technologies such as AWS, or other cloud computing environment
• Demonstrable scripting experience with a variety of scripting languages for automating tasks, generating reports, and creating tools (e.g. Go, Java, Python, Perl, Shell)
• Experience with REST services, and familiarity with NoSQL/SQL database concepts
• Experience with a continuously delivery model of deploying software
• Proven history working directly with development teams

Preference for candidates with

• Proficiency in Go, Java, Python or Scala
• Working at scale
• Tools, including Terraform, Kubernetes, Docker
• Experience with databases, NoSQL and SQL, such as MongoDB and Postgresql
• Passion for gaming

This is going to be Epic!