Senior Data Platform Engineer

The opportunity
Unity is looking for a Senior Software Engineer, Data Platform to help build and scale the data infrastructure powering our Ads business and Unity Commons, our internal platform that supports teams across Unity.

In this role, you will work at the intersection of large-scale distributed systems, data engineering, and platform infrastructure. You will design, build, and operate critical data platform capabilities that enable high-throughput, reliable, and trusted data flows across Unity's advertising ecosystem, while also supporting common internal services used across the company.

This is a role for an engineer who enjoys solving complex platform problems, owning meaningful components end to end, and building systems that serve many teams at scale. You will partner closely with engineers, product managers, data scientists, and downstream data consumers to deliver platforms that are resilient, extensible, and easy to adopt.

What you'll be doing

• Design, build, and operate scalable platform services, backend systems, and self-service tooling used by users across Unity.
• Work across distributed systems, data platform, cloud infrastructure, observability, reliability, and automation.
• Collaborate with teammates and partner teams across Unity to deliver reliable, reusable solutions.
• Build systems that are reliable, maintainable, secure, cost-efficient, and easy for internal teams to adopt.

What we're looking for

• Solid experience designing, building, and operating distributed systems, backend services, or data platforms in production.
• Strong backend and systems engineering skills, including service design, API design, debugging, and production operations.
• A good understanding of distributed systems fundamentals, including scalability, reliability, fault tolerance, and operational trade-offs.
• Familiarity with cloud-native infrastructure, container orchestration, CI/CD, infrastructure as code, and observability.

You might also have

• Experience with data-intensive platforms, including pipelines, streaming systems, storage layers, or analytics infrastructure.
• Familiarity with privacy, security, compliance, and cost-efficiency considerations in large-scale platform environments.
• Experience applying AI or agentic tooling to engineering workflows.

Additional information

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

Salary Range

This range reflects the anticipated base salary for this position. Beyond base salary, this role may be eligible for equity awards and participation in our company incentive plans (such as annual discretionary bonuses or sales commissions). The final offer amount will depend on several factors, including geographic location and the candidate’s relevant experience, professional background, and skill set.

Benefits

At Unity, we want our team members to thrive. We offer a wide range of benefits designed to support well-being and work-life balance.

Please note: Benefits eligibility, specific offerings, and coverage vary based on the country and employment status.

While specific benefits vary, here are some of the ways we strive to take care of our eligible team members globally: Comprehensive health, life, and disability insurance | Commute subsidy | Employee stock ownership | Competitive retirement/pension plans | Generous vacation and personal days | Support for new parents through leave and family-care programs | Office food snacks | Mental Health and Wellbeing programs and support | Employee Resource Groups | Global Employee Assistance Program | Training and development programs | Volunteering and donation matching program

Life at Unity

Unity [NYSE: U] is the world’s leading game engine, powering play for more than 3 billion consumers each month. The top mobile games in the world, the most played PC indie titles, the most innovative console games, and virtually all of the top XR and Web Games are developed, deployed, and grown in Unity. Unity also enables teams across industries like automotive, manufacturing, and healthcare to design, simulate, and collaborate in 3D — closing the gap between ideas and reality. For more information, please visit www.unity.com.

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