About Us
Psyonix is a video game developer best known for Rocket League, the award-winning game that combines soccer, driving, and highly competitive gameplay. As part of the Epic Games family, we are an industry-leading game studio rooted in a crunch-free philosophy that emphasizes an amazing employee experience, located in the heart of San Diego. For nearly 20 years, we have been a driving force behind some of the most successful games in the industry, including Gears of War, Mass Effect 3, XCOM: Enemy Unknown, Bulletstorm, Unreal Tournament III and Unreal Tournament 2004.
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.
What You'll Do
We are looking for a qualified, self-motivated DevOps Engineer to maintain PsyNet, the online backend that powers Rocket League. The ideal candidate should have significant professional experience designing, programming, and maintaining backend software systems using modern technologies and best practices.
In This Role You Will
- Own the delivery, scalability, and reliability of our backend platform serving hundreds of thousands of concurrent worldwide users
- Leverage modern DevOps, SRE, & CI/CD practices to engineer systems and processes that automate/minimize operational toil and drive proactive infrastructure improvements to optimize our operational efficiency
What We're Looking For
- 4+ years of professional software engineering/coding experience relevant to at least one of the areas described above
- Experience designing, developing, testing, & maintaining web services/microservices and APIs
- Proven ability to write and maintain effective technical design documentation
- Proficiency in verbally communicating complex technical concepts
- Experience architecting online systems
- Experience with SQL databases
- SRE experience developing and operating web services at scale
Nice To Have Skills
- Proficiency with C#, PHP or Go
- MySQL experience
- Cloud experience (GCP preferred)
- Docker experience
- Kubernetes experience
IMPORTANT NOTE: Evening, overnight, weekend, holiday and on-call work may be required. You must be available to participate in on-call escalation rotations if needed.
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.
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 we have for our people. Additionally, each year, we celebrate the Epic family with company-wide paid breaks, generous paid time off, and recognize individuals for 7 years of employment with a paid sabbatical - we think our people are pretty awesome!
Like what you hear? Come be part of something Epic!
