Software Engineer Student Worker

The opportunity
We are thrilled to invite you to an exciting opportunity to join Platform Support team, where you will be responsible for backporting bugfixes. Backporting involves taking changes from the trunk (the newest Unity version/branch) and adapting them for older branches, including Long Term Support (LTS) releases. Given that LTS versions are the most stable and widely used, your contributions directly impact the quality and user experience for a majority of Unity’s users.

Some backports might involve merge conflicts, where your analytical skills will come into play. With guidance from the team, you will debug, resolve conflicts, modify Unity’s source code, and test your changes to ensure they meet Unity’s high quality standards.

What you'll be doing

• Backporting Platform area changes to other versions of Unity
• Test code changes on different platforms, from nieche smart phones to newest gaming consoles

What we're looking for

• Being student enrolled in IT or similar programme
• Graduation Year: 2026 or later
• Willingness to analyze and modify (with support) C++ and C# code
• Knowledge of the Unity editor
• Attention to detail and a commitment to delivering quality outcomes

You might also have

• Experience working with Github and Git
• Experience of building and running Unity projects on different platforms

Additional information

• Relocation support is not available for this position.
• Work visa/immigration sponsorship 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.

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