Epic Games
Infrastructure Engineer Intern
Epic Games, Cary, North Carolina, United States, 27518
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.ONLINE INFRASTRUCTURE
What We Do
Create and maintain a proactive and stable IT environment as well as provide IT support to our Epic people. You will be empowered to shape processes that deliver optimized IT service across our business. Work with emerging technologies while enabling IT success for everyone.INFRASTRUCTURE ENGINEER INTERN
What You'll Do
The Core Tech Production Engineering (ProdEng) team is looking for a Backend/Infrastructure Engineering Intern to join us. You’ll work on tooling that helps backend service teams at Epic build services that are reliable and scalable, and helps them in shipping changes to our players as fast as possible while improving our internal developer experience.In this role, you will
Develop new features for our internal load-testing tool in Go and JavaScript (Vue)Help service teams efficiently scale their services by investigating (and doing engineering work to expose!) what metric is the best indicator of load for a particular serviceImprove the resiliency of many services at once by adding new safety features (for example, loadshedding to Epic’s internal gateway product) and helping teams to onboard with our latest reliability best-practicesWhat we're looking for
Experience with Go and JavaScript preferred, Java is a plus (ProdEng services are written in Go, but Epic has tons of Java services)Someone who wants to know the true ‘why’ behind a service outage, not just how to fix itBasic understanding of Linux and containersInterest in Kubernetes, OpenTelemetry, and other CNCF projects like Helm, Argo, and EnvoyA strong desire to help others (ProdEng works with service teams all over Epic)Someone who wants to get exposed to the inner-workings of delivering backend services that support millions of players simultaneouslyThis internship has a flexible start date in 2025. Recruitment will be ongoing until teams find an ideal match. Applicants must be legally authorized to work in the posting location for the duration of the internship. For more information about Epic’s Early Career Program, visit
epicgames.com/earlycareers . This is going to be Epic!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.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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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.ONLINE INFRASTRUCTURE
What We Do
Create and maintain a proactive and stable IT environment as well as provide IT support to our Epic people. You will be empowered to shape processes that deliver optimized IT service across our business. Work with emerging technologies while enabling IT success for everyone.INFRASTRUCTURE ENGINEER INTERN
What You'll Do
The Core Tech Production Engineering (ProdEng) team is looking for a Backend/Infrastructure Engineering Intern to join us. You’ll work on tooling that helps backend service teams at Epic build services that are reliable and scalable, and helps them in shipping changes to our players as fast as possible while improving our internal developer experience.In this role, you will
Develop new features for our internal load-testing tool in Go and JavaScript (Vue)Help service teams efficiently scale their services by investigating (and doing engineering work to expose!) what metric is the best indicator of load for a particular serviceImprove the resiliency of many services at once by adding new safety features (for example, loadshedding to Epic’s internal gateway product) and helping teams to onboard with our latest reliability best-practicesWhat we're looking for
Experience with Go and JavaScript preferred, Java is a plus (ProdEng services are written in Go, but Epic has tons of Java services)Someone who wants to know the true ‘why’ behind a service outage, not just how to fix itBasic understanding of Linux and containersInterest in Kubernetes, OpenTelemetry, and other CNCF projects like Helm, Argo, and EnvoyA strong desire to help others (ProdEng works with service teams all over Epic)Someone who wants to get exposed to the inner-workings of delivering backend services that support millions of players simultaneouslyThis internship has a flexible start date in 2025. Recruitment will be ongoing until teams find an ideal match. Applicants must be legally authorized to work in the posting location for the duration of the internship. For more information about Epic’s Early Career Program, visit
epicgames.com/earlycareers . This is going to be Epic!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.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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