Engineering Lead, Data Platform

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 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.

Data Engineering

What We Do

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.

What You’ll Do

Epic Games is seeking a Senior Engineering Lead to guide the Data Services team, which builds and maintains the core services behind our data platform. This team handles telemetry collection, data schematization, stream routing, data lake integration, and real‑time analytics, bridging platform, data, and backend engineering. In this role, you’ll lead team growth and mentorship, drive alignment on technical strategy, and collaborate cross‑functionally to scale our data infrastructure.

In This Role, You Will

• Lead, mentor, and grow a team of senior and principal engineers.
• Foster an inclusive, collaborative, and feedback‑driven engineering culture.
• Drive continuous improvement in the team’s processes, delivery, and impact.
• Collaborate with stakeholders in engineering, data science, and analytics to shape and communicate the team’s vision, strategy, and roadmap.
• Bridge strategic vision and tactical execution by breaking down long‑term goals into achievable, well‑scoped iterations that deliver continuous value.
• Ensure high standards in system architecture, code quality, and operational excellence.

What We’re Looking For

Base Pay Ranges

About Us

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.

Like What You Hear? Come be a part of something Epic!

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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