Staff Software Engineer, Unity

• 8 or more years of software engineering experience with strong proficiency in Java and backend development
• Proven track record of designing and delivering large scale software systems or frameworks used by multiple teams
• Expertise in building and maintaining APIs, ideally with gRPC, REST, and schema technologies such as Protobuf or Avro
• Strong knowledge of distributed systems and event driven architectures
• Ability to drive cross team initiatives, align stakeholders, and make pragmatic tradeoffs that balance scale, performance, and developer experience
• 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

Desirable

• The Data Platform team at Unity builds the software foundations that allow product, machine learning, and analytics teams to make sense of data at scale
• We design and develop the core services, APIs, and frameworks that enable fast, reliable, and consistent access to data across Unity Ads
• Our work supports critical adtech use cases including segmentation, optimization, and real time bidding
• We are looking for a Staff Data Platform Engineer with deep expertise in Java and distributed systems
• In this role you will take ownership of major platform components, take part in architectural decisions, and mentor engineers while delivering software that makes Unity's data ecosystem more powerful and easier to use
• Design, build, and evolve backend services, libraries, and frameworks that form the foundation of Unity's data platform
• Define and own APIs and developer facing tools that improve how teams ingest, process, and use data
• Lead design reviews, architectural discussions, and technical planning, ensuring the platform is reliable, extensible, and future ready
• Mentor engineers across the team, raising the bar for code quality, testing, and software craftsmanship
• Collaborate with product, ML, and data engineering teams to translate requirements into scalable platform features