Senior Engine Programmer
Content + Source + Freshness • 13 Dec 2025 • 95% confidence
Offer value
High value due to strong brand recognition, competitive compensation, and significant opportunities for technical innovation.
- Flexible work arrangements, including unlimited PTO
- Opportunity to influence game development globally
- Strong compensation structure with benefits
Pros
- Flexible work arrangements including unlimited PTO
- Opportunity to work with cutting-edge technology in a well-established company
- Significant impact on game developers' experiences
Cons
- High expectations for experienced candidates (5+ years required)
- Potentially intensive workload due to project demands
- Competitive job market for top talent
Who it's for
Senior / Lead • Hybrid with office presence
Good fit
- Experienced programmers in C++
- Those interested in performance optimization
- Innovators in the gaming technology space
Not recommended for
- Beginners or those without C++ knowledge
- Candidates not comfortable with technical problem-solving
- Individuals seeking purely creative roles
Motivation fit
Key skills
About the job
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.
ENGINEERING - UNREAL ENGINE
What We Do
Unreal-powered projects have been on the bleeding edge of real-time entertainment for over 20 years. Our team of engineering experts are always innovating to improve the tools and technology that empower content developers worldwide.
What You'll Do
Epic Games seeks an experienced Senior Engine Programmer to join our Developer Experience and Efficiency team. In this role, you’ll develop low-level tools and improve the performance of systems that all UE and UEFN users use to build and ship their games, as well as pipelines Epic uses internally to ship the Unreal Engine and games like Fortnite. The ideal candidate will love practical problem-solving and have an affinity for improving the day-to-day workflow of other developers.
In this role, you will
- Optimize iteration times and improve existing systems for performance, memory usage, and user experience
- Develop custom tools and pipelines for other programmers and content creators
- Work with a large, complex code base to understand and resolve performance issues
- Establish test workflows to validate performance improvements and prevent regressions
- Support external customers by answering their technical requests and questions
What we're looking for
- Excellent C++ knowledge
- Comfortable writing multithreaded code and reasoning about dependency graphs and content pipeline for large games
- Experience in profiling and optimizing a large codebase
- Demonstrated ability to reason about large, interacting systems from the macro-level to the micro-level
- Someone passionate, solution-oriented, proactive, and autonomous
- Good knowledge of the reflection system and serialization versioning is a plus
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 100% of the premiums for both you and your dependents. Our coverage includes Medical, Dental, a Vision HRA, Long Term Disability, Life Insurance & a 401k with competitive match. We also offer a robust mental well-being program through Modern Health, which provides free therapy and coaching for employees & dependents. Throughout the year we celebrate our employees with events and company-wide paid breaks. We offer unlimited PTO and sick time and recognize individuals for 7 years of employment with a paid sabbatical.
ABOUT US
Epic Games spans across 25 countries with 46 studios and 4,500+ employees globally. For over 25 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!
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.
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