Senior Data Engineer

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.

Our mission is to provide a world-class platform that empowers the business to leverage data that will enhance, monitor, and support our products. We are responsible for data ingestion systems, processing pipelines, and various data stores all operating in the cloud. We operate at a petabyte scale, and support near real-time use cases as well as more traditional batch approaches.

You will be responsible for designing, building, and maintaining our data infrastructure to ensure the reliability and efficiency of our data and systems used by our Ecosystem Security Core team. Your role will include building and maintaining data pipelines which stream, transform, and load data from various products and managing the AWS infrastructure for our security & analytics platforms. Additionally, you will work with engineers, product managers, and data scientists to design and implement robust and scalable data services that support the Ecosystem Security mission while ensuring our user’s privacy. Your work will directly combat bad actors and keep our platform safe for all users.

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• Design and implement automated end-to-end streaming & ETL process to prepare data for machine learning and ad-hoc analysis, including data anonymization
  
• Manage and scale the tools and technologies that we use to label data, which run on AWS
  
• Devise database structure and technology for storing and efficiently accessing large data sets (millions of records) of different types (text, images, videos, etc.)
  
• Use and implement data extraction APIs
  
• Write and invoke custom SQL procedures
  
• Support data versioning strategies using automated tools, such as DVC
  
• Support devising strategies for labeling of new data by humans
  

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• Strong analytical background: BSc or MSc in Computer Science/Software Engineering or related subject - candidates without a degree are welcome as long as they have proven extensive hands‑on experience
  
• Experience of ETL technical design, automated data quality testing, QA and documentation, data warehousing, and data modeling
  
• Experience with Python for interaction with Web Services (e.g. Rest and Postman)
  
• Experience with using AWS, Databricks, Snowflake, Elastic or other comparable large scale analytics platforms
  
• Experience monitoring and managing databases (we use Elasticsearch/MongoDB/PostgreSQL)
  
• Experience with SQL
  
• Experience with data versioning tools
  
• Experience developing and maintaining data automation infrastructure for streaming & ETL pipelines, such as Apache Airflow
  
• Experience with GraphDB would be a plus
  
• Demonstrated experience collaborating with product teams to understand how safety systems integrate with broader data systems
  

We pay 100% for benefits except for PMI (for dependents). Our current benefits package includes pension, private medical insurance, health care cash plan, dental insurance, disability and life insurance, critical illness, cycle to work scheme, flu shots, health checks, and meals. We also offer a robust mental well-being program through Modern Health, which provides free therapy and coaching for employees & dependents.

Epic Games spans across 25 countries with 46 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.

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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