Senior Software Engineer

4 Months ago • All levels • Software Development & Engineering

Job Summary

Job Description

The Data Platform team at Unity is looking for a Senior Software Engineer. The role involves designing, building, and maintaining real-time systems, and collaborating with various teams to deliver impactful solutions. Responsibilities include improving system observability, reliability, and performance, as well as participating in roadmap planning. The engineer will work on a data mesh inspired architecture, building applications, services, and pipelines. The job requires proficiency in Python, Go, or Java. The candidate will work closely with internal stakeholders to understand needs and deliver impactful solutions. The job involves working with data for over 500 billion daily data events.
Must have:
  • Proficiency in Python, Go, or Java.
  • Experience building and operating distributed systems.
  • Understanding of observability best practices.
  • Familiarity with cloud infrastructure tools.
  • Ability to design and maintain versioned APIs.
Good to have:
  • Experience with streaming technologies.
  • Comfort working across multiple time zones.
  • Interest in contributing to open-source projects.
  • A strong belief in collaborative engineering.
  • Familiarity with data platform challenges.

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 Software 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

  • Design, build, and maintain real-time systems that power critical functionality across Unity’s data stack.
  • Work closely with internal stakeholders, including product teams, infra engineers, and other stakeholders, to understand needs and deliver impactful solutions.
  • Drive improvements in system observability, reliability, and performance, applying best practices in monitoring, alerting, and on-call readiness.
  • Review code, mentor teammates, and contribute to architectural discussions, helping the team scale engineering excellence.
  • Participate in roadmap planning and cross-functional projects, helping shape the future of Unity’s next-generation data platform.

What we're looking for

  • Proficiency in Python, Go, or Java, with a track record of writing clean, production-ready code.
  • Experience building and operating distributed systems in a cloud-native environment.
  • Solid understanding of observability best practices, including setting up monitoring, alerting, and logging (e.g., Prometheus, Grafana, PagerDuty).
  • Familiarity with cloud infrastructure and orchestration tools such as Kubernetes, Terraform, and GCP.
  • Ability to design and maintain versioned APIs and service interfaces, especially using gRPC and Protobuf.

You might also have

  • Experience with streaming technologies like Apache Flink, Kafka, or similar.
  • Comfort working across multiple time zones and cross-functional teams, aligning on shared interfaces and infrastructure.
  • Interest in contributing to open-source projects or building internal frameworks for broader adoption.
  • A strong belief in collaborative engineering, shared ownership, and building systems as a team sport.
  • Familiarity with data platform challenges at scale, such as ingestion, enrichment, or schema management.

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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