Senior Infrastructure Engineer

4 Months ago • All levels • Devops

Job Summary

Job Description

The Data Platform team at Unity is looking for a Senior Data Infrastructure Engineer to manage data infrastructure, systems, and tools. This role involves designing and optimizing data infrastructure, improving tooling, cost optimization, and collaboration with various teams. The engineer will research, prototype, and develop data applications and pipelines for critical adtech use cases. The role requires strong engineering foundations, cloud expertise, programming proficiency, and data and systems experience. The engineer will also participate in on-call rotations. The job description outlines the responsibilities of the position and the skills the company is looking for.
Must have:
  • Degree in Computer Science, Engineering, or equivalent experience.
  • Deep hands-on experience with GCP, AWS, or Azure.
  • Skilled in one or more of Go, Java, or Python.
Good to have:
  • Team-Oriented Mindset: Values collaboration and shared ownership.
  • Hands-on experience with tools like Kafka, Flink, BigQuery, and Druid.
  • Proficient with Terraform, ArgoCD, GitHub Actions, or similar tools.

Job Details

The opportunity
The Data Platform team at Unity manages a comprehensive range of data infrastructure, systems, and tools—covering every stage of the data lifecycle, from ingestion and storage to processing and data product creation through a data mesh inspired architecture. The data assets we produce serve as the foundation for machine learning use cases and enable teams across the company to extract value from data—fueling insights, automation, and business growth.

We're seeking a talented Senior Data Infrastructure Engineer to join our team. In this role, you’ll collaborate with engineers, product specialists, and data experts to research, prototype, and develop robust data applications, services, and pipelines—powering critical adtech use cases such as user segmentation, campaign optimization, and real-time bidding, based on over 500 billion daily data events.

What you'll be doing

  • Platform Design & Optimization: Design and optimize large-scale data infrastructure systems for efficiency, reliability, and cost-effectiveness.
  • Infrastructure Tooling: Drive improvements in infrastructure tooling by researching, prototyping, and implementing solutions that enhance operational excellence and developer agility.
  • Cost Optimization: Lead infrastructure optimization initiatives across the company, delivering significant cost savings while maintaining or improving service performance.
  • Operational Excellence: Participate in on-call rotations, leveraging deep infrastructure knowledge to quickly resolve complex issues, reduce impact, and implement long-term fixes through automation and system improvements.
  • Cross-Functional Collaboration: Partner with teams across the organization to deliver scalable, cost-efficient solutions. Continuously refine infrastructure and service deployment through CI/CD pipelines and infrastructure as code (IaC) in collaboration with development and site reliability engineering teams.

What we're looking for

  • Strong Engineering Foundation: Degree in Computer Science, Engineering, or equivalent experience building robust distributed systems.
  • Cloud & Infrastructure Expertise: Deep hands-on experience with GCP, AWS, or Azure, and building Kubernetes-based infrastructure.
  • Programming Proficiency: Skilled in one or more of Go, Java, or Python for backend systems development.
  • Data & Systems Experience: Background in data platforms, backend services, or large-scale infrastructure projects.
  • Cross-Functional Collaboration: Excellent interpersonal skills with a proven ability to work effectively across global, cross-functional teams.

You might also have

  • Team-Oriented Mindset: Values collaboration and shared ownership and sees engineering as a collective effort.
  • Modern Data Stack Familiarity: Hands-on experience with tools like Kafka, Flink, BigQuery, and Druid.
  • Infrastructure Automation: Proficient with Terraform, ArgoCD, GitHub Actions, or similar tools for CI/CD and infrastructure as code.

Additional information

  • Relocation support is not available for this position.

Life at Unity
Unity [NYSE: U] is the leading platform to create and grow games and interactive experiences. 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 third quarter of 2024, more than 70% of the top 1,000 mobile games were made with Unity, and in 2024, Made with Unity applications had an average of 3.7 billion downloads per month. For more information, please visit Unity.

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.

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.

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