Senior Engine Programmer, Unreal Cloud Services

Epic Games; Montreal (administrative region); On-site; CAD 90,000 - 130,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Full benefits for employees

Retirement plan with employer match

Mental well-being program

Employee Assistance Program

Job summary

Epic Games is seeking a skilled engineer to join Unreal Cloud Services, working at the boundary between editor and cloud to deliver distributed workflows and version control within Unreal Engine as UE6 evolves. You will help bring these capabilities together into a cohesive editor experience and collaborate with cross-functional teams to ship features.

The role emphasizes delivering editor features, cloud-backed workflows, and high-quality user experiences within a large native codebase.

Qualifications

• Strong C++ skills and experience working in a large native codebase.
• Experience building user-facing tools and editor features for complex 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 with Unreal Engine or comparable tools development.
• Rust experience is a plus.

Responsibilities

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

Skills

C++

Editor tools

Unreal Engine

Distributed systems

Rust

UX collaboration

Tools

Unreal Engine

Job description

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.

PROGRAMMING - UNREAL ENGINE

What We Do

Unreal-powered projects have been on the bleeding edge of real-time entertainment for over 20 years. Our team of programming experts are always innovating to improve the tools and technology that empower content developers worldwide.

What You'll Do

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 programmers on features that span the editor and cloud services
• Use modern development practices, including AI-assisted programming, to improve implementation, debugging, and iteration

What we're looking for

• 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 programming teams to ship features
• Experience with Unreal Engine, another game engine, or comparable tools development
• Experience with Rust is a plus

EPIC JOB + EPIC BENEFITS = EPIC LIFE

We pay 100% for benefits for both employees and dependents and offer coverage for supplemental medical, dental, vision, critical illness, telemedicine, Life and AD&D, long term disability insurance as well as weekly indemnity (short term disability) and a retirement savings plan with a competitive employer match. In addition to the EAP (employee assistance program), we also offer a robust mental well-being program through Modern Health, which provides free therapy and coaching for employees & dependents.

ABOUT US

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.

Like what you hear? Come be a part of something Epic!

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