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# Senior Engine Programmer, Unreal Cloud Services

- **Company:** Epic Games, Inc.
- **Location:** London, UK
- **Experience:** Expert
- **Salary:** £47,665.0
- **Contract:** Permanent contract
- **Skills:** Artificial Intelligence, C++ (Programming Language), Software Debugging, Video Game Development, Game Engine, Open Source Technology, Cloud Services, Backend, Low Latency, Codebase, Unreal Engine, Software Version Control
- **Published:** August 18, 2026
- **Apply:** https://www.adzuna.co.uk/jobs/details/5844340117

## About the Role

* Strong C++ skills and experience working in a large native codebase
 * Experience building user-facing tools, editor features, and complex interactive workflows
 * Experience building clients that interact with asynchronous or networked services
 * Strong understanding of parallelism, networking, latency, and failure handling
 * Strong eye for user experience and how technical behavior affects creator workflows
 * Experience working closely with Product, UX, and engineering teams to ship features
 * Experience with Unreal Engine, another game engine, or comparable tools development
 * Experience with Rust is a plus

## Description

Join Unreal Cloud Services, the team behind Lore (Epic's next-generation, open-source version control system built for the future of game development). You'll work at the boundary between editor and cloud, making distributed workflows, collaboration, and version control feel like a natural part of the creator experience. As Unreal evolves toward UE6, you'll help bring these capabilities together into a cohesive editor experience.
In this role, you will

 * Build Unreal Editor features that bring cloud-based collaboration into everyday creator workflows
 * Implement responsive editor experiences that interact with asynchronous and distributed servi
 * Work across editor, networking, storage, revision control, and UX systems to make cloud-backed workflows feel natural to Unreal Engi
 * Partner with Product and UX teams to turn product ideas into clear, practical, and polished editor experiences
 * Collaborate with backend and infrastructure engineers on features that span the editor and cloud services
 * Use modern development practices, including AI-assisted programming, to improve implementation, debugging, and iteration


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