ENGINEERING-GAMES

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What You'll Do

Epic Games, Inc. seeks a Senior Backend Engineer in Bellevue, WA to Write distributed systems to handle large scale challenges (we use Java, Scala), by using shared libraries (Spring Boot, WebFlux, Akka), source control / code review (GitHub), API Gateways (Envoy, ELB), event streams (Kafka, SNS/SQS) and unit/integration tests (JUnit, Mockito);

In this role, you will

• Work with public cloud infrastructure to facilitate a fast moving ecosystem (we use AWS, Kubernetes), with additional tooling (Helm, GitHub Actions, Teamcity) to allow repeatable and automated deployments; 
• Craft solutions using modern SQL and nonrelational databases (we use MySQL/RDS, MongoDB, DynamoDB and Redis); 
• Work together with both upstream and downstream service owners, producers, game designers and other cloud, infrastructure and embedded DevOps engineers to design (Miro, Mermaid), build and ship solutions; 
• Own the entire lifecycle of services, including live operations and deployment; 
• Be accountable for the solutions you build and flexible around the ambiguity of the problem space, including updating documentation (Confluence, Backstage), on-call (Opsgenie) and day to day support.

What we’re looking for

• Employer will accept a Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Engineering, or related technical field, and 5 years of experience in a job offered, or in a related occupation. 
• In lieu of a Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Engineering, or related technical field, employer will accept 2 years of work experience in job offered, or in a related occupation. 
• Any suitable combination of education, training or experience is acceptable. 
• Position requires 5 years of experience in the following: 
• Software engineering, developing online systems; 
• Working with a team of engineers to solve large and ambiguous problems, including the ability to provide, solicit and accept constructive feedback; 
• Modern high performance JVM languages including either Java or scala; 
• Non-relational databases including MongoDB, Cassandra, or DynamoDB; 
• Cloud infrastructure including either AWS or Kubernetes; 
• Source Control systems including either Perforce or Git. 
•  40 hours/week, $343,900.00 to $437,098.00per year

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