Epic Games is the creator of Fortnite, Unreal Engine, and the Epic Games Store — a company that has shaped the way billions of people play, create, and connect. We build the foundational technology that powers some of the largest interactive experiences on the planet, and we give those tools to creators and developers around the world through open ecosystems. Behind the products is an engineering organization that operates at rare scale: real-time infrastructure for hundreds of millions of players, a game engine used across film, architecture, and automotive industries, and a platform ecosystem that lets indie developers ship games to every major device on Earth. Our AI Platform team is building the next layer of that infrastructure — an enterprise-grade stack of agentic AI systems that automates engineering workflows, accelerates developer productivity, and enables new kinds of collaboration across Epic's teams. We're not a research group and we're not deploying off-the-shelf tools. We're architecting and building production systems from the ground up, across six interconnected platforms:
AI Agent Orchestration — multi-tenant platform for team AI agents that live and collaborate in Slack channels, Source Control, etc. - EMA (Epic Managed Agents) — compute and workspace infrastructure for headless agent harness runs at scale
AI MCP Gateway — MCP OAuth gateway, plugin runtime, and governance layer for AI tool orchestration
Non Human Identity Management — agent identity, credential vault, and authorization for non-human workloads
Centralized AI Knowledge Base — org-wide memory plane with knowledge graph, deductive reasoning, and hierarchical summarization
Roost — cryptographically signed software distribution and the Claude Code plugin marketplace
This is foundational work that will define how AI is used inside Epic for the next decade. The scale is real, the problems are hard, and the team is small enough that every engineer makes a decisive architectural impact. As a Principal Engineer on the AI Platform team, you'll own the technical direction of our agent infrastructure stack end to end. You'll set the architecture across the six platforms above, drive alignment between them, and personally solve the hardest distributed systems and security problems that emerge as the stack scales. You'll work across teams to ensure agent identity, tool governance, memory, and execution infrastructure are coherent, secure, and operable — and you'll mentor the engineers who build alongside you. This isn't a coordinator role. You'll write production code, design protocols, make the calls that determine how agents authenticate and what they're allowed to do, and be accountable for the reliability of systems that are actively used by Epic's engineering organization. ### What we're looking for
12+ years of software engineering experience, with at least 4 years at staff or principal scope
Deep expertise in distributed systems: event-driven architectures, durable execution, service mesh, and multi-tenant platform design
Production experience with authentication and authorization infrastructure — OAuth 2.0, OIDC, SPIFFE/SPIRE or equivalent workload identity, token exchange (RFC 8693), and policy engines (OPA, OpenFGA, or comparable)
Strong security engineering fundamentals: credential vaulting, secrets management (OpenBao/Vault), audit trail design, and least-privilege access at scale
Fluency in at least one compiled, systems-capable language (Go preferred, Rust or C++ acceptable); comfort reading and writing Go microservices is essential given the stack
Track record of owning multi-service platform architecture across a full product lifecycle — from design through sustained production operation
Exceptional written communication: design documents and architecture reviews that are clear, precise, and influence without authority
Hands-on experience building LLM-integrated systems: agent orchestration, tool-use frameworks, MCP (Model Context Protocol), or equivalent agent-to-tool middleware
Experience with plugin or extension runtime design — WASM sandboxing, gRPC sidecar patterns, subprocess isolation, or comparable capability security models
Familiarity with knowledge graph systems (Neo4j or comparable), vector databases, and hybrid retrieval (semantic + keyword + graph), as well as experience operating Kubernetes-based platforms: scheduling, workload identity, sidecar injection, and multi-tenancy isolation
EPIC JOB + EPIC BENEFITS = EPIC LIFE
Our intent is to cover all things that are medically necessary and improve the quality of life. We pay 100% of the premiums for both you and your dependents. Our coverage includes Medical, Dental, a Vision HRA, Long Term Disability, Life Insurance & a 401k with competitive match. We also offer a robust mental well-being program through Modern Health, which provides free therapy and coaching for employees & dependents. Throughout the year we celebrate our employees with events and company-wide paid breaks. We offer unlimited PTO and sick time and recognize individuals for 7 years of employment with a paid sabbatical. ### **Like what you hear? Learn more about our Equal Employment Opportunity (EEO) Policy here. Note to Recruitment Agencies: Epic does not accept any unsolicited resumes or approaches from any unauthorized third party (including recruitment or placement agencies) (i.e., a third party with whom we do not have a negotiated and validly executed agreement). We will not pay any fees to any unauthorized third party. Further details on these matters can be found here.
