Senior Unreal Engine Cloud & Editor Programmer

Epicgames; Greater London; On-site; GBP 80,000 - 120,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Pension

Private medical insurance

Health care cash plan

Dental insurance

Disability & life insurance

Critical illness

Cycle to work scheme

Flu shots

Health checks

Meals

Mental health program

Job summary

Epic Games is seeking a Senior Unreal Engine Software Engineer in Greater London to drive editor enhancements and cloud collaboration features. You will work at the intersection of editor and cloud services, building robust, user-friendly tools for content creators.

You’ll collaborate with product, UX, and backend teams to deliver cohesive editor experiences as Unreal evolves toward new engine capabilities, including UE6. London-based role with on-site collaboration.

Qualifications

• Proven ability to work with large native codebases.
• Experience building editor tools and complex workflows.
• Experience with clients interacting with asynchronous or networked services.
• Strong understanding of parallelism, latency, and failure handling.

Responsibilities

• Build Unreal Editor features enabling cloud-based collaboration.
• Create responsive editor experiences for distributed workflows.
• Collaborate across editor, networking, storage, and UX systems.
• Partner with Product and UX to translate ideas into editor experiences.
• Work with backend and infrastructure engineers on cross-cutting features.
• Apply AI-assisted programming to improve implementation and debugging.

Skills

C++ expertise

UE/engine experience

User-facing tools

Networking/Distributed systems

UX sensitivity

Rust is a plus

Job description

Epic Games is seeking a Senior Unreal Engine Software Engineer in Greater London to drive editor enhancements and cloud collaboration features. You will work at the intersection of editor and cloud services, building robust, user-friendly tools for content creators.

You’ll collaborate with product, UX, and backend teams to deliver cohesive editor experiences as Unreal evolves toward new engine capabilities, including UE6. London-based role with on-site collaboration.