Technical Lead / Principal Engineer

• Provide technical leadership and architectural vision for production-grade AI developer tools used by thousands of engineers across Epic’s major codebases (Unreal Engine, Fortnite, and more)
• Drive architectural decisions for scalable, maintainable developer-facing tools across multiple modalities: CLI and desktop tools, web apps, build process integrations, services, and APIs
• Pioneer and establish patterns for modern AI frameworks and agent architectures, setting standards for the broader team
• Partner with leadership and high-value teams to identify strategic opportunities and design/build/validate new platforms
• Design and implement security, governance, and compliance protocols for AI platforms, including secret management, workload identity, and runtime isolation policies
• Define measurement strategies and success metrics to track impact and continuously improve tool effectiveness
• Mentor and grow a team of software engineers, conducting architecture reviews and raising the bar for technical excellence

• B.S. in Computer Science or equivalent experience with 10+ years building production software systems
• Track record of providing technical leadership for complex software projects from conception to delivery at scale
• Proven experience in “zero-to-one” platform ownership: leading the technical design, architectural strategy, and initial build-out of new platforms before they are fully staffed and scaled
• Expert-level experience with REST APIs, microservices, and distributed systems
• Experience operating and orchestrating scalable services on Kubernetes, including managing container lifecycle and security configurations
• Experience with and high level of interest in using and building AI-assisted development tools (e.g., Claude Code, Cursor, Copilot)
• Proven ability to turn ambiguous organizational problems into concrete technical strategies and drive them to completion
• Bonus qualifications
• Game development experience specifically in Unreal
• Experience leading developer tools or internal platform teams
• Passion and interest in cutting-edge AI engineering workflows
• Expert understanding of agent architectures and orchestration frameworks
• Significant contributions to open-source AI tooling projects
• Extensive experience with large monorepo codebases
• Prior experience in engineering leadership roles

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., We enable Epic’s online services teams to build, deploy, and manage services that are used by more than half a billion players around the world. Our mission is to provide world class tools and platforms to improve the experience of our developers and make it easier, faster, and safer to build, operate, and scale their applications. We operate at massive scale as one of the largest cloud computing users in the world., This role sits at the intersection of AI innovation, practical engineering, and technical leadership. You’ll set the technical direction for tools that developers across Epic use every day, establish best practices for AI-powered development tooling, mentor engineers, and shape how thousands of engineers write, review, and ship code. On top of that you’ll be hands-on building complex aspects of the systems and working heavily with AI agents to implement, test, release, and operate these critical platforms., 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., 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.