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Sponsorship possible
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Employer is on a government sponsor recordThe US Department of Labor certified 17 H-1B/E-3 labor condition applications for this employer between Oct 2025 and Jun 2026 (latest Jun 2026) — the step every H-1B hire needs first.
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The posting doesn’t mention sponsorshipSilence isn’t a refusal — ask the recruiter before investing much time.
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No salary bar for this routeH-1B has no fixed salary bar: the employer must pay at least the prevailing wage for the role and area.
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What Epic Games INC paid sponsored hires in similar roles2 certified filings for “Research Engineer” (Computer and Information Research Scientists) in CA: $97k–$289k, median $193k.
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- Employer is on a government sponsor record
- The US Department of Labor certified 17 H-1B/E-3 labor condition applications for this employer between Oct 2025 and Jun 2026 (latest Jun 2026) — the step every H-1B hire needs first. Source: LCA disclosure data (US Department of Labor (OFLC)).
- No salary bar for this route
- H-1B has no fixed salary bar: the employer must pay at least the prevailing wage for the role and area. Cap-subject employers enter a lottery weighted by wage level. Source: https://www.federalregister.gov/documents/2025/12/29/2025-23853/weighted-selection-process-for-registrants-and-petitioners-seeking-to-file-cap-subject-h-1b, rules effective 2026-02-27.
- What Epic Games INC paid sponsored hires in similar roles
- 2 certified filings for “Research Engineer” (Computer and Information Research Scientists) in CA: $97k–$289k, median $193k. Most were filed at wage level I (100%) — 1 lottery entry, ≈15% projected selection odds for cap-subject employers. Source: US Department of Labor LCA disclosure data (Oct 2025 – Jun 2026).
US H-1B: cap-subject employers enter a lottery weighted by wage level — Level I gets 1 entry, Level IV gets 4 (DHS projected selection odds ≈15% at Level I to ≈61% at Level IV). Universities and non-profit research employers are cap-exempt. The $100,000 fee for new petitions from abroad is currently blocked by a court order (appeal pending).
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About the role
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 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.
ENGINEERING - EPIC GAMES SERVICES
What We Do
Driving the plug-in power behind Unreal Engine 5. We bridge connections for licensees and our own internal game teams to online services. This allows games like Fortnite to utilize a combination of platform online services as well as Epic’s own online services to build cross-platform online features. Login, parties, voice chat, matchmaking, purchasing, cloud storage, and analytics are just a few examples of online features that our Online Game Services team helps games utilize.
What You'll Do
Fullstack Engineers on the Identity team impact a diverse set of account initiatives from end to end. These include internal apps like Epic Games Store sign-in and account management to game client account experiences like Fortnite, Rocket League, and Fall Guys.
We are creating a universal platform and account experience that allows players and developers to benefit from not having to implement and manage account services themselves and empowers users to connect accounts across ecosystems and gaming platforms and have more fun with friends and family on any device.
Identity Fullstack Engineers build and support login, sign up, session management, safety and privacy controls, developer integrations, and family management features. Identity team members are a core team that play a critical role in current projects and future objectives as Epic strives to create user first open experience for the metaverse.
As an engineer at Epic, you'll leverage deep full-stack understanding to solve complex technical challenges with novel solutions. You will collaborate with an experienced team at the forefront of the games industry, in order to provide exceptional user experiences.
In this role, you will
• Get things done: Epic empowers engineers to assess a challenge, craft a solution, and implement it
• Work with distributed systems to handle large scale challenges (we use Java, Scala), as well as work with public cloud infrastructure to facilitate a fast moving ecosystem (we use AWS)
• Own the entire lifecycle of services and web applications, including live operations and deployment
• Design, create, deploy, and operate user flows for sign-in, sign-up, and account management
• Work together with both upstream and downstream service owners, producers and other cloud, infrastructure and embedded DevOps engineers to ship solutions
• Craft solutions using modern SQL and nonrelational databases (we use Mongodb, Dynamo and Redis)
• Connect front end user flows with backend services in efficient and reusable patterns to support multiple clients and customers across the Epic ecosystem including games, apps, and services
What we're looking for
• 4+ years experience crafting secure, scalable, and highly available web applications and services
• Experience programming back-end web services in Java or similar language
• Experience programming front-end applications with modern frameworks such as React, Vue, Angular, etc. (React is common at Epic Games)
• Experience with cloud technologies (we use AWS)
• Demonstrated understanding of relational and NoSQL databases
This role is open to multiple locations across the US (including WA).
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