Principal Engineer, Enterprise Productivity Engineering

What We Do

Our IT organization is dedicated to building a proactive, resilient tech ecosystem that empowers the people of Epic. We are committed to optimizing business processes through emerging technologies, ensuring seamless IT success and high-performance support across the entire company.

What You'll Do

• Own technical standards, best practices, and architectural guidance across multiple teams
• Step into the org's highest-priority projects when they need hands-on help to ship
• Partner with team leads to raise the quality bar on design, code, and delivery
• Drive EPE's engineering direction, including how we build with tools like Claude Code, Cloud Infrastructure, and LLM primitives
• Debug problems and unblock teams
• Drive operational maturity: CI/CD pipelines, testing practices, code quality, observability, and infrastructure-as-code, as well as evaluate new tools and patterns, then help teams adopt them without disrupting delivery
• Mentor engineers across multiple teams in both software development and AI engineering, as well as represent EPE's technical direction in cross-org conversations with other engineering leaders and executives at Epic

What We're Looking For

• 7+ years of professional software engineering experience, with meaningful time spent as a senior individual contributor or technical lead
• Deep, hands-on expertise in Python and Golang for production systems, as well as strong experience with AWS cloud infrastructure, including infrastructure-as-code (Terraform preferred)
• Real, practical experience building AI-powered systems: RAG architectures, prompt engineering, context window management, LLM integrations, and agentic workflows, as well as familiarity with AI development tools like Claude Code and similar coding assistants, not just as a user but understanding how to build effective workflows around them
• Solid DevOps background: CI/CD (Github Actions preferred), containerization (Docker, Kubernetes), automated testing, and release management
• Strong experience designing and operating distributed systems, APIs, and service deployments in production
• Demonstrated ability to context-switch between strategic technical leadership and deep hands-on engineering work
• Strong communication skills. You can explain a technical decision to a director and a junior engineer in the same afternoon and both walk away understanding it
• Comfort with ambiguity. EPE solves problems across the entire company, so the domain changes constantly. You need to be someone who thrives on that, not someone who needs a narrow lane

Benefits

• 100% coverage of premiums for Medical, Dental, Vision HRA, Long Term Disability, Life Insurance, and a 401k with competitive match
• A robust mental well-being program through Modern Health, which provides free therapy and coaching for employees & dependents
• Events and company-wide paid breaks throughout the year
• Unlimited PTO and sick time
• A paid sabbatical after 7 years of employment

Pay

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).

About Us

Epic Games is a leading interactive entertainment company. For over 30 years we've been making award-winning games and engine technology that empowers others to make visually stunning games and 3D content that bring environments to life like never before. Epic's award-winning Unreal Engine technology not only provides game developers the ability to build high-fidelity, interactive experiences for PC, console, mobile, and VR, it is also a tool being embraced by content creators across a variety of industries such as media and entertainment, automotive, and architectural design. As we continue to build our Engine technology and develop remarkable games, we strive to build teams of world-class talent. Like what you hear? Come be a part of something Epic!

Equal Opportunity Employer

Epic Games deeply values diverse teams and an inclusive work culture, and we are proud to be an Equal Opportunity employer. Learn more about our Equal Employment Opportunity (EEO) Policy here.