Senior Software Engineer, Tools - Unpublished R&D; Product (Unreal Engine)

Company

Player-focused game development company creating and evolving large-scale multiplayer game experiences.

What you will do

• Maintain and optimize CI/CD and build pipelines for automated builds, testing, packaging, and release delivery.
• Maintain jobs, scripts, and configurations in Horde, BuildGraph, or similar systems.
• Develop Unreal Editor tools, automation scripts, asset validation tools, and data processing utilities using C++, Python, and related technologies.
• Diagnose build, Cook, packaging, and environment dependency issues while improving logging, alerting, and recovery mechanisms.
• Analyze build efficiency and manual operational steps, standardizing build, packaging, and testing workflows.
• Partner with Client, Gameplay, Technical Art, Art, and QA teams on tool adoption, release execution, and issue resolution.

Requirements

• 3+ years of experience in software engineering, game tools, build systems, or CI/CD development.
• Strong proficiency in either C++ or Python; experience reading or maintaining code in the other language is a plus.
• Experience with Unreal Engine project or tool development, including UBT, UAT, BuildGraph, and Editor, Build, Cook, and Package workflows.
• Familiarity with one or more CI/CD pipeline or build orchestration systems, such as Jenkins, Horde, or GitHub Actions.
• Familiarity with Git, Perforce, or other version control systems.
• Understanding of automated builds, automated testing, packaging, artifact management, and version releases.
• Ability to independently drive engineering tasks within a defined scope and collaborate and communicate effectively across functions.
• Strong log analysis, troubleshooting, and cross-environment debugging skills.

Nice to have

• Experience with UAT, UBT, Unreal automated testing, or smoke testing.
• Experience developing tools for asset validation, performance checks, Cook validation, or resource pipelines.
• Experience with multi-platform, multi-configuration, distributed, or cloud builds.
• A track record of improving build stability, reducing build times, or lowering the cost of manual operations.

Culture & Benefits

• Collaborative environment focused on craft expertise and cross-functional partnership.
• Decision-making prioritizes player experience and player empathy.
• Values experimentation, different perspectives, and challenging constraints.