PROGRAMMING - UNREAL ENGINE

Unreal-powered projects have been on the bleeding edge of real-time entertainment for over 20 years. Our team of programming experts are always innovating to improve the tools and technology that empower content developers worldwide.

What You’ll Do

Epic Games is searching for an experienced senior programmer to join our developer platform team. You’ll work on Horde, our in-house platform that powers CI/CD, remote execution, build health, storage, and other services critical to developer iteration and workflows. This platform is key to delivering our internal game projects and supports numerous organizations outside of Epic.

In this role, you will

- Collaborate with mixed discipline teams across Epic and multiple time zones to help steer Horde’s architecture, ensuring new features are scalable, maintainable, and fit the overall design
- Take ownership of parts of the Horde codebase, implementing new features, fixing bugs, and supporting internal teams and Unreal licensees
- Develop and extend the Horde plugin architecture across Build, Compute, Storage, Secrets, and Tools

What we’re looking for

- 6+ years of qualified programming experience designing distributed systems that handle scheduling, queueing, storage, and failure recovery at high volume
- Experience building software behind CI/CD or developer infrastructure (job schedulers, remote execution, or artifact storage services)




- Expert knowledge of C# and .NET, including multithreading and memory management
- Strong backend and server architecture experience, including data modeling, API design, and scaling strategies
- Experience with cloud solutions such as AWS or Azure
- Strong communication skills across technical and non-technical audiences
- Live service experience is a plus
- Familiarity with ASP.NET, gRPC, MongoDB, or Redis (or equivalent) is a plus
- Experience developing web frontends is a plus
- Experience leveraging agentic programming tools in your workflows is a plus

EPIC JOB + EPIC BENEFITS = EPIC LIFE

We pay 100% for benefits for both employees and dependents and offer coverage for supplemental medical, dental, vision, critical illness, telemedicine, Life and AD&D;, long term disability insurance as well as weekly indemnity (short term disability) and a retirement savings plan with a competitive employer match. In addition to the EAP (employee assistance program), we also offer a robust mental well-being program through Modern Health, which provides free therapy and coaching for employees & dependents.

Equal Opportunity Employer

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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📌 Senior Backend Engineer, Developer Platform (Horde) (Montreal)
🏢 Epic Games
📍 Montreal