Technical System Architect

5 Hours ago • 7 Years + • Technical Art

Job Summary

Job Description

As a System Architect at Aura from Unity, you will design and define the technical architecture of highly scalable and distributed systems, ensuring they are resilient, cost-efficient, maintainable, and aligned with the company's vision. You will work across multiple teams to design comprehensive solutions for complex technical challenges, balancing immediate needs with long-term strategic goals. This role offers the opportunity to shape the technological backbone of a fast-growing product with massive scale and global reach, impacting millions of users. Responsibilities include collaborating with product management to translate business requirements, partnering with engineering leaders to design scalable architecture, creating documentation, evaluating technology choices, providing technical leadership, identifying and addressing technical debt, and researching emerging technologies.
Must have:
  • 7+ years of experience in software development
  • 3+ years as Engineering Manager/Tech Lead/Staff/Principal Engineer
  • Proven experience with backend technologies (Python or Node.js preferred)
  • Experience in high-scale environments and building data pipelines
  • Ability to influence without direct authority
  • Accountability, problem-solving, and innovation
  • Self-motivated, ability to work independently and in teams
Good to have:
  • Experience with ML and Data engineering
  • Experience in Ad Tech

Job Details

The opportunity

As a System Architect at Aura from Unity, you will design and define the technical architecture of our highly scalable and distributed systems, ensuring they are resilient, cost-efficient, maintainable, and aligned with the company's vision and business needs. You will be part of the Chief Architect's team, working across multiple teams to design comprehensive solutions for complex technical challenges — balancing immediate needs with long-term strategic goals.

This is your chance to shape the technological backbone of a fast-growing product with massive scale and global reach. You will make a real impact on how millions of users experience our products, while collaborating with brilliant engineers, product managers, and leadership.

What you'll be doing

  • Collaborate with product management to translate business requirements into technical specifications
  • Partner with engineering leaders to design and develop scalable, efficient and secured architecture
  • Create and maintain high-level system architecture documentation and diagrams
  • Evaluate technology choices and make recommendations that align with our strategic direction
  • Provide technical leadership and mentorship to development teams
  • Identify technical debt and develop strategies to address it
  • Research emerging technologies and evaluate their potential application

What we're looking for

  • 7+ years of experience in software development
  • 3+ years of experience as an Engineering Manager / Tech Lead / Staff or Principal Engineer
  • Proven experience with backend technologies, preferably Python or Node.js
  • Experience working in high-scale environments and building data pipelines
  • Ability to influence without direct authority
  • A role model for accountability, problem-solving, and innovation
  • Self-motivated with the ability to work independently and in team settings

You might also have

  • Experience working with ML and Data engineering
  • Experience in Ad Tech (Targeting, Measurement and Attribution)

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 you have a disability that means 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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