Senior Backend Developer, Data Services

1 Month ago • 4-8 Years • Backend Development

About the job

Job Description

Develop, maintain & optimize scalable cloud-based systems for Unity's data services. Design and implement high-throughput services spanning all of Unity. Translate product requirements into technical designs and implement solutions. Experience with Go, Javascript, C++, distributed systems, API definition, REST architecture, system optimizations, and high-throughput, low-latency systems is required.
Must have:
  • Go, Javascript, C++
  • Distributed Systems
  • API Definition
  • REST Architecture
Good to have:
  • Mobile Development
  • User Privacy
  • Security Compliance
  • Interpersonal Communication
Perks:
  • International Relocation
  • Inclusive Environment
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The opportunity

Our Unity Data Services team strives to connect data from a multitude of sources into meaningful segments. Success for our team is incorporating more data and entities so that our modelling and reporting teams have critical segments of data. In this role you'll be unifying the data for Unity, bringing together disparate information into a meaningful and accessible platform through highly distributed systems requiring reliable uptimes and high throughput. Join us in creating a robust data ecosystem that fuels innovation across Unity!

What you'll be doing

  • Build, productionalize, and maintain scalable cloud-based systems
  • Design and implement high throughput services spanning all of Unity
  • Optimize systems to provide best in class latency and uptime for a highly demanded internal service
  • Translate product requirements into a technical design and implement solutions using all resources available
  • Test, Deploy and Maintain production ready code

What we're looking for

  • Proficient and strong knowledge of Go, Javascript, C++ or Javascript
  • Experience working with distributed systems with external database storage
  • Experience in API definition and REST architecture
  • Understanding of system optimizations and performance analysis
  • Experience with high throughput low latency systems

You might also have

  • Mobile development experience, ideally in the tech industry
  • Exposure to user privacy and security or compliance
  • Strong interpersonal and communication skills, with successful experience collaborating with distributed teams

Additional information

  • International relocation support is not available for this position.

Life at Unity

Unity [NYSE: U] is the world's leading platform of tools for creators to build and grow real-time games, apps, and experiences across multiple platforms. Creators, ranging from game developers to artists, architects, automotive designers, infrastructure experts, filmmakers, and more, use Unity to bring their imaginations to life across multiple platforms, from mobile, PC, and console, to spatial computing.

As of the fourth quarter of 2023, more than 69% of the top 1,000 mobile games are made with Unity as derived from a blended number of the top 1,000 games in the Google Play Store and iOS App Store. In 2023, Made with Unity applications had an average of 3.7 billion downloads per month. For more information, please visit www.unity.com.

Unity is a proud equal opportunity employer. We are committed to fostering an inclusive, innovative environment and celebrate our employees across age, race, color, ancestry, national origin, religion, disability, sex, gender identity or expression, sexual orientation, or any other protected status in accordance with applicable law. Our differences are strengths that enable us to support the growing and evolving needs of our customers, partners, and collaborators. If there are preparations or accommodations we can make to help ensure you have a comfortable and positive interview experience, please fill out this form to let us know.

Pursuant to the San Francisco Fair Chance Ordinance, we will consider for employment qualified applicants with arrest and conviction records.

This position requires the incumbent to have a sufficient knowledge of English to have professional verbal and written exchanges in this language since the performance of the duties related to this position requires frequent and regular communication with colleagues and partners located worldwide and whose common language is English.

Headhunters and recruitment agencies may not submit resumes/CVs through this Web site or directly to managers. Unity does not accept unsolicited headhunter and agency resumes. Unity will not pay fees to any third-party agency or company that does not have a signed agreement with Unity.

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*Note: Certain locations require a good faith disclosure of the base pay for the role. The actual base pay for the successful candidate may differ based on location and level.

Gross pay salary

$138,700 — $187,600 USD

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$138.7K - $187.6K/yr (Outscal est.)
$163.2K/yr avg.
San Francisco, California, United States

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About The Company

Unity (NYSE: U) is the world’s leading platform for creating and operating real-time 3D (RT3D) content. Creators, ranging from game developers to artists, architects, automotive designers, filmmakers, and others, use Unity to make their imaginations come to life. Unity is the foundation upon which the world’s most powerful digital content is created. Specifically, Unity’s platform provides a comprehensive set of software solutions to create, run and monetize interactive, real-time 2D and 3D content for mobile phones, tablets, PCs, consoles, and augmented and virtual reality devices. 

In the fourth quarter of 2021, Unity had, on average, 3.9 billion monthly active end users who consumed content created or operated with its solutions. The applications developed by these creators were downloaded, on average, five billion times per month in 2021. For more information, please visit www.unity.com. 


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