Unity

Staff Software Engineer

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3 days ago
Mountain View, CA, USAStaff+
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Base Salary

$193k - $318k/yr

Responsibilities

  • Set standards for agentic code review, code repair, generated testing, and AI-assisted engineering workflows.
  • Define system-health and business-outcome metrics and rebuild observability for interpretable telemetry and automated response.
  • Build an agentic troubleshooting layer that correlates signals, proposes root causes, and takes safe automated actions.
  • Own the infrastructure for continuous, fast, repeatable, and cost-effective evaluation of AI-generated code, art, and design outputs.
  • Form and evaluate the technical strategy for AI applications in gaming LiveOps, including player behavior, retention, monetization, and live-game health.
  • Measure and optimize agent inference economics, including token efficiency, model routing, context management, budgets, and state recovery.
  • Set technical direction for Unity AI backend platforms and make architecture decisions across Microsoft Azure and Google Cloud.
  • Mentor engineers and raise engineering quality through design reviews, code reviews, and technical guidance.

Requirements

  • Demonstrated current, hands-on daily use of AI and agent tooling in engineering work.
  • Track record of setting technical direction, making prioritization decisions, and owning outcomes in ambiguous problem spaces.
  • Experience building and shipping complex user-facing software products at scale.
  • Depth in observability, including monitoring, logging, alerting, debugging, and tools such as Grafana.
  • Experience replacing manual production judgment or reducing human effort in detection-to-resolution workflows through automation.
  • Hands-on experience with Microsoft Azure or Google Cloud Platform.
  • Experience developing backend services and APIs in established CI/CD and infrastructure-as-code environments.
  • Evidence of multiplying other engineers through mentoring, design review, or durable standards.
  • Ability to translate business and user needs into technical solutions and align stakeholders across disciplines and organizations.
  • Preferred experience includes AI evaluation infrastructure, benchmark harnesses, LLM-as-judge pipelines, model-output quality measurement, agent-system economics, gaming, live-service operations, or player analytics.

Benefits

  • Comprehensive health, life, and disability insurance, with offerings varying by country and employment status.
  • Commute subsidy, employee stock ownership, and competitive retirement or pension plans.
  • Generous vacation and personal days, parental leave, and family-care programs.
  • Office food and snacks, mental health and wellbeing programs, employee resource groups, and a global employee assistance program.
  • Training and development programs plus volunteering and donation matching.
  • The posting lists Zone A, Zone B, and Zone C location-based base salary ranges; final offers vary by location and experience.

Tech Stack

Categories

Unity

About Unity

5,001-10,000 employees

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).

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