Staff Software Engineer

The opportunity
We are hard at work integrating revolutionary monetization systems deep into the core of Unity's engine. Combining data from over a billion players with sophisticated deep learning technology and in-house proprietary analytics. The goal: to make our customers more successful and their consumers happier!

Unity is looking for a Staff Software Engineer who will join a team focusing on building the next generation of Unity's monetization suite. As the top-tier development platform for online and mobile games, Unity is helping take developer's creations further and faster than ever before. Unity Monetization enables developers to build a business through advertising, in-app purchases, and analytics. Our fast-growing business requires you to care about system scalability, performance, and processing big volumes of data. In addition, the system's functional requirements also drive us towards the use of rule engines and machine learning.

What you'll be doing

• Design and together with engineering teams implement infrastructure layer to support high scale and high availability needs for data and machine learning. Interface with product managers, stakeholders, and other engineering teams to perform requirements gathering and anticipate Sales-specific edge cases in the existing codebases and new solutions. Perform code development and production deployment to create applications that meet business needs and scale accordingly. Own and operate the services together with the engineering teams, through on-call experience and hands-on debugging of complex infrastructure issues, identifying root cause and solving for continuous improvement. Perform peer code review. Participate in on-call rotations. Guide and oversee the architecture and low-level application development to ensure a unified, well operable, and reliable platform.

What we're looking for

• Bachelor's degree or foreign equivalent degree in Computer Science, Engineering, Information Systems, or a related field and seven (7) year of related work experience in software development. In the alternative, the employer will accept nine (9) years of related work experience in software development.
• Must have seven (7) years of experience with/in the following:
• Performing design and development using at least two (2) of the following programming languages: Go, Java, Python, and/or C++; and
• Computer Networking including protocols.
• Must have five (5) years of experience with/in the following:
• Utilizing cloud native infrastructure and Kubernetes to deploy application code into production environments;
• Managing cloud infrastructure with a major public cloud such as Google Cloud Platform (GCP), Amazon Web Services (AWS), or Microsoft Azure;
• Administering and maintaining data streaming infrastructure with Kafka; and
• Infrastructure as Code (IaC), in at least two (2) of the following tools: ArgoCD, Terraform, Ansible, and/or Chef.
• Must have two (2) years with/in the following:
• Streaming and batch processing using at least two (2) of the following systems: Kafka, RabbitMQ, Apache Flink, and/or Apache Beam;
• Data warehousing using Google BigQuery or Amazon Redshift; and
• Online advertising data and data solutions.
• Employer will accept any suitable combination of education, training, or experience.
• Telecommuting permitted on a hybrid schedule as determined by the employer.
• 40 hrs/week, Mon-Fri, 8:30 a.m. - 5:30 p.m.

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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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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Gross pay salary$286,225—$296,225 USD