Staff Backend Developer

5 Hours ago • All levels • Backend Development • $153,000 PA - $229,600 PA

Job Summary

Job Description

Unity is seeking a Staff Software Developer for its Parsec team, focusing on advancing remote collaboration, hybrid work, and enterprise management. The role involves designing, building, and deploying web applications and services for remote access and cloud administration, with an emphasis on system performance, reliability, and cost optimization at scale. Responsibilities include technical design and architecture for APIs, signaling service, and billing, as well as mentoring other engineers and establishing best practices. The position operates within a distributed team environment, collaborating with product, frontend, native, DevOps, security, and QA teams.
Must have:
  • Experience building large-scale, highly available web apps and APIs (REST, WebSocket).
  • Ability to orchestrate and manage serverless cloud architecture.
  • Solid development experience with Golang, JavaScript (TypeScript), MySQL.
  • Experience with observability platforms (logging, metrics, tracing).
  • Experience managing infrastructure costs.
  • Experience running a high availability production service.
  • Experience mentoring developers.
Good to have:
  • Experience with infrastructure-as-code (Terraform).
  • Experience with networking technologies (STUN servers, NAT traversal).
  • Development experience with C and C++.
  • Working knowledge of the Parsec app and remote access dashboards.

Job Details

The opportunity

Unity is looking for a Staff Software Developer to join the Parsec team, focused on pushing the boundaries of what's possible in remote collaboration, hybrid work, and enterprise management.

Parsec offers ultra-low latency, high-performance remote access technology that enables creative professionals to work from anywhere, businesses to support hybrid work, and individuals to collaborate in real-time. Our platform delivers near-native performance for creatives, game developers, and enterprise users needing responsive, high-fidelity computing.

You will mentor and guide developers as they design, build, and deploy web applications and services for remote access and cloud administration, and play a key role in designing technical solutions that focus on system performance, reliability, and cost optimization at scale.

What you'll be doing

  • Work with senior developers and managers to provide technical design and architecture for Parsec’s APIs, signaling service, and billing to maintain high availability at scale
  • Design, build, test, and maintain underlying web applications, APIs, and micro-services
  • Maintain clear and effective communication within the team and broader organization
  • Mentor other engineers and establish engineering best practices that allow the team to achieve assigned projects and goals
  • Operate within a distributed team and collaborate with colleagues both local and remote
  • Collaborate with colleagues from product, frontend, native, DevOps, security, and QA

What we're looking for

  • Experience building large scale, highly available web apps and APIs (REST, WebSocket) that allow our customers to monitor and control extensive fleets of IT equipment
  • Demonstrated ability to orchestrate and manage serverless cloud architecture
  • Solid development experience with Golang, JavaScript (TypeScript), MySQL
  • Experience using and maintaining observability platforms for: logging, metrics, application monitoring/tracing. (Cloudwatch, Athena and Sentry, etc)
  • Experience managing infrastructure costs through cloud service dashboards and alerting
  • Experience running a high availability production service or product with on call shifts
  • Experience mentoring developers to improve their skills and make them more effective

You might also have

  • Experience working with infrastructure-as-code (Terraform)
  • Experience with networking technologies (STUN servers, NAT traversal)
  • Development experience with native programming language like C and C++
  • Working knowledge of the Parsec app and remote access administration dashboards

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.

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.

Headhunters and recruitment agencies may not submit resumes/CVs through this website 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 salary range for the role. The actual salary for the successful candidate may differ based on location, experience, and other job-related factors.

Gross base salary$153,000—$229,600 CAD

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