Backend Services Programmer Intern

🏢 Epic Games · 📍 Cary,North Carolina,United States

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Position Summary & Responsibilities

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.

ENGINEERING - EPIC GAMES SERVICES

What We Do

Driving the plug-in power behind Unreal Engine 5. We bridge connections for licensees and our own internal game teams to online services. This allows games like Fortnite to utilize a combination of platform online services as well as Epic’s own online services to build cross-platform online features. Login, parties, voice chat, matchmaking, purchasing, cloud storage, and analytics are just a few examples of online features that our Online Game Services team helps games utilize.

BACKEND SERVICES PROGRAMMER INTERN

What You'll Do

We are looking for a Backend Engineer Intern to join us to continue to build the system that powers Fortnite. You'll work on the team responsible for things like running FNCS tournaments, storing player cosmetics and Sprites, and persisting LEGO Fortnite worlds. You will be given a feature to own as part of our development cycle, and be integrated in the day-to-day of the team.

In this role, you will

Contribute to the backend systems that power Fortnite experiences
Learn about security, scalability, and maintainability in the code you write
Collaborate with a team of highly experienced engineers
Work with Fortnite product owners and producers to figure out solutions that empower the upcoming seasons of Fortnite

What we're looking for

Proficiency in Java or similar object-oriented programming language
Experience with AI-assisted coding tools, such as Claude code
Ability to communicate effectively and provide task updates in a remote-first team environment
Willingness to ask questions, seek guidance, and learn from feedback
Foundational analytical and problem-solving skills
Familiarity with cloud

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Key Role Competencies & Evaluation Highlights

Key Role Focus:

Technical mastery in high-performance C++ and absolute passion for Unreal Engine, gaming ecosystems, and player-first experiences.

📋 Preparation Priorities (Key Areas to Clarify):

1. Using slow, unoptimized high-level abstractions without understanding the underlying hardware cost.
2. Displaying indifference to gaming culture or viewing Unreal Engine strictly as a generic enterprise tool.
3. Lacking foundational computer science rigor in concurrency, rendering loops, or data structures.

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I build high-performance, low-latency systems that let creators and players interact with massive digital worlds seamlessly.

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