Principal Backend Programmer (Developer Platform)
Epic Games3 days ago
Responsibilities
- Set technical strategy and design across source control, CI/CD, build, artifact management, developer tooling, and cloud infrastructure.
- Rebuild and scale developer-platform systems to support millions of agentic CI/CD actions per day.
- Define software supply-chain and pipeline-security strategy in partnership with security and governance teams.
- Solve complex cross-team problems through system design, prototyping, production coding, and design review.
- Write strategy documents, design proposals, and decision records for engineering and leadership audiences.
- Align priorities and trade-offs across cost, reliability, and delivery speed while influencing without direct authority.
- Mentor Senior Programmers and Technical Leads and raise the organization’s technical bar.
- Lead adoption of AI coding tools and agentic programming, including effective and safe systems, guardrails, and workflows.
- Represent Epic in technical discussions with AWS, Google Cloud, GitHub, and other vendors.
Requirements
- Extensive experience designing and operating large-scale infrastructure and developer platforms across multiple systems and teams.
- Deep experience with AWS and/or GCP, Kubernetes, and infrastructure as code.
- Broad knowledge of source control, CI/CD, and build systems at scale.
- Strong understanding of software supply-chain and infrastructure security, including collaboration with security and governance teams.
- Track record of leading ambiguous, cross-team technical initiatives through delivery.
- Strong hands-on programming ability with production code and tooling in Python, Go, or similar languages.
- Experience with AI coding tools and agentic engineering, including informed adoption strategies.
- Excellent written and verbal communication and the ability to explain complex trade-offs to engineers and leadership.
- Good judgment and comfort making decisions with incomplete information.
- Experience with databases or data infrastructure at scale is preferred.
- Experience working with cloud providers and vendors on capacity, roadmaps, or commercial topics is preferred.
Benefits
- Epic pays 100% of medical, dental, vision HRA, long-term disability, life insurance, and dependent premiums.
- 401k with competitive match.
- Free therapy and coaching through Modern Health for employees and dependents.
- Company events, company-wide paid breaks, unlimited PTO, and sick time.
- Paid sabbatical after seven years of employment.
Tech Stack
About Epic Games
Epic Games builds Fortnite and operates the Epic Games Store, and develops Unreal Engine and Epic Online Services for game studios and creators. Its business model spans game sales and in-game purchases, Unreal Engine licensing and royalties, and revenue share from its storefront and services. Founded in 1991 and headquartered in Cary, North Carolina, this privately held company’s technology is also used in film/TV, architecture, automotive, and simulation.