Engineering Lead, Observability

at  Epic Games

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.

WHAT WE DO

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.

ABOUT US

Epic Games spans across 19 countries with 55 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.

WHAT YOU’LL DO

Our Observability team is looking for a Lead to help us manage and grow our small team of observability focused SREs to build and operate the infrastructure our teams rely on to keep our platforms, games, and online services running. Our Observability team works across all of Epic to implement industry best practices and develop new monitoring capabilities. You’ll be leading a small team of contractors and FTEs to manage the development of Epic’s observability platform. This will be a hands-on leadership role where you’ll be directly engaged in the roll out of observability tools. This team is responsible for company-wide metrics, logging, exception handling, and dashboarding solutions. We will also be exploring tracing solutions in the near future as the main missing gap in our overall platform offering. The team will stay relatively small (4-5 people max) for the foreseeable future so the right candidate is just as comfortable reviewing terraform PRs as they are meeting with vendors to discuss long term strategy.

IN THIS ROLE, YOU WILL

• Own the roadmap for observability, working closely with the team to prioritize the right strategic initiatives for Epic
• Help to modernize key portions of our observability infrastructure, building new data processing pipelines for telemetry data as well as writing software to automate processes and generate new insights
• Work with teams across Epic as an observability subject matter expert to provide guidance on observability best practices
• Foster a healthy and collaborative culture both within the team and in interacting with your peers
• Make educated decisions on build vs. buy, be the main point of contact for observability vendors