Build Programmer

🏢 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 - GAMES

What We Do

Unreal projects have been leading the pack of real-time entertainment with our constantly growing team of engineering experts. We’re always improving on the tools and technology that empower content developers worldwide.

What You'll Do

We're looking for a Build Programmer passionate about CI/CD, automation, and developer productivity to help build and maintain the infrastructure that powers Rocket League. You'll partner with engineering, QA, production, and infrastructure teams to create reliable, scalable build systems that enable developers to ship high-quality software efficiently.

In this role, you'll improve build pipelines, optimize developer workflows, and create tools that reduce friction across the software development lifecycle. Your work will directly impact how quickly teams can iterate, validate changes, and deliver world-class experiences to millions of users.

In this role, you will

Collaborate with developers, QA, Production, and Release to optimize their workflows for Rocket League
Design, maintain, and improve build automation systems and CI/CD pipelines for large-scale game projects
Monitor build health, troubleshoot failures, and drive root-cause analysis to improve pipeline stability
Own and support various tools and processes owned by the Rocket League Build Programming Team
Support software releases by ensuring build systems remain reliable and responsive during critical milestones

What we're looking for

Strong communication and collaboration skills, with the ability to work effectively across multidisciplinary teams
Experience building and maintaining CI/CD pipelines

🎯 Candidate Preparation Guide For Epic Games Applicants

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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