Epic Games
Gaming
PrincipalEngineer,EnterpriseProductivityEngineering
“Principal Engineer, Enterprise Productivity Engineering at Epic Games. Skills: technical leadership, hands-on engineering, AI-powered systems, DevOps, distributed systems. 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”
What You'll Achieve.
maximize end user productivity; optimize business processes through emerging technologies; ensure seamless IT success and high-performance support; Our impact is measured by whether other teams at Epic can move faster because of what we build; ship complex and visible projects
Industry & Context.
solve high-impact problems all across Epic; Debug problems and unblock teams; Comfort with ambiguity
What They're Looking For.
Must Have
7+ years of professional software engineering experience, meaningful time spent as a senior individual contributor or technical lead, Deep, hands-on expertise in Python and Golang for production systems, experience with AWS cloud infrastructure, infrastructure-as-code (Terraform preferred), Real, practical experience building AI-powered systems, RAG architectures, prompt engineering, context window management, LLM integrations, agentic workflows, familiarity with AI development tools like Claude Code and similar coding assistants, Solid DevOps background, CI/CD (Github Actions preferred), containerization (Docker, Kubernetes), automated testing, release management experience, designing and operating distributed systems, APIs, service deployments in production, Demonstrated ability to context-switch between strategic technical leadership and deep hands-on engineering work, Experience setting and maintaining engineering standards across multiple teams without having direct authority over those teams, communication skills, Comfort with ambiguity
Nice to Have
Terraform preferred, Github Actions preferred
What You'll Do.
Own technical standards
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
Drive EPE's engineering direction
including how we build with tools like Claude Code
Direct AI development tools to build
Debug problems and unblock teams
Drive operational maturity: CI/CD pipelines
and infrastructure-as-code
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
represent EPE's technical direction in cross-org conversations with other engineering leaders and executives at Epic
How You'll Work.
Team & Collaboration
work alongside the team leads as a peer; influence the technical direction with a hands-on approach; Partner with team leads to raise the quality bar on design, code, and delivery; Mentor engineers across multiple teams; represent EPE's technical direction in cross-org conversations with other engineering leaders and executives at Epic
Communication Scope
explain complex technical decisions to executive leadership; explain a technical decision to a director and a junior engineer in the same afternoon and both walk away understanding it
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