21 hours ago
Base Salary
$158k - $301k/yr
Responsibilities
- Own the design, build, and evolution of scalable platform services, backend systems, and self-service tooling used across Unity.
- Develop and operate distributed systems, data pipelines, cloud infrastructure, observability, reliability, automation, and developer-experience capabilities.
- Partner with Ads, infrastructure, data, product, engineering, and downstream consumer teams to deliver reusable platform solutions.
- Provide hands-on technical leadership for ambiguous, cross-functional initiatives spanning multiple systems and teams.
- Contribute to platform patterns, technical standards, and engineering practices that improve consistency and quality.
Requirements
- Extensive experience designing, building, and operating large-scale distributed systems, backend services, or data platforms in production.
- Strong backend and systems-engineering skills, including service design, API design, system integration, debugging, and production operations.
- Deep understanding of scalability, reliability, fault tolerance, performance, consistency, and operational trade-offs in distributed systems.
- Experience building shared platforms, internal systems, or self-service infrastructure supporting multiple engineering teams.
- Ability to understand complex existing systems, identify leverage points, and lead pragmatic improvements.
- Preferred experience with data-intensive platforms, pipelines, streaming systems, storage layers, or analytics infrastructure.
- Preferred exposure to Apache Flink, Apache Paimon, Kafka, Spark, Kubernetes, ArgoCD, or Terraform.
- Experience in advertising technology, gaming, monetization, marketplaces, or high-scale consumer platforms is beneficial.
Benefits
- Comprehensive health, life, and disability insurance.
- Commute subsidy, retirement or pension plans, generous vacation and personal days, and office food snacks.
- Employee stock ownership, mental health and wellbeing programs, Employee Resource Groups, and a global employee assistance program.
- New-parent leave and family-care programs, training and development programs, and volunteering and donation matching.
- Benefits eligibility, offerings, and coverage vary by country and employment status.
Tech Stack
Categories
BackendData Engineering
About Unity
Unity is a public software company that builds the Unity real-time 3D engine and services for creating, operating, and monetizing games and interactive 3D content across mobile, PC, console, and XR. It sells subscription licenses and usage-based services such as cloud build, ads, and analytics to studios and enterprises in gaming, automotive, film, and AR/VR. Founded in 2004 and headquartered in San Francisco, it trades on the NYSE (U).