Site Reliability Engineer, Unity
$121-131k
Office located in Framingham, MA
Game development platform
Job no longer available
Game development platform
1001+ employees
Job no longer available
$121-131k
Office located in Framingham, MA
1001+ employees
Company mission
Democratize game development and enable everyone to create rich interactive content.
Role
Who you are
- Bachelor’s degree, or foreign equivalent degree, in Computer Science, Computer Engineering, Telecommunications Engineering or related field
- Must have knowledge of the following:
- Sysadmin
- Project work advancing or developing tools in support of the Site Reliability functions
- On-call response
- Automation work to scale service
- Cross functional teamwork during a software development life cycle
What the job involves
- The world’s leading game engine is looking for brilliant engineers for our Site Reliability Engineering organization. Unity customers don’t like service disruptions, and neither do we. Our mission is to manage production incidents... with technology
- We build automation to measure, detect, and prevent production issues. When needed, we use experience and communication to work with other teams to resolve issues manually, and then make sure it doesn’t happen again!
- Monitor, administer, and provide troubleshooting support for our complex hosting environments that deliver seamless in-game voice communication to millions of players. Collaborate deeply with a cross functional team of Server and Platform Engineers, Software Developers and Engineers, and Customer Operation Engineers
- Evaluate system performance and trends, and adjust capacity as needed, and/or make recommendations for risk mitigation. Sysadmin tasks managing 100s - 1000s of Centos-based servers
- This includes the bottom to top environment from disk/network to configuring and diagnosing application issues. Creating new clusters of servers utilizing automation tools including Puppet, Hiera-data, on 'bare metal' servers, Cloud and in-house Openstack instances
- On-site working in datacenter(s) when required - Network/vlan configuration, server Kickstarting and OS deployment. Project work advancing and/or developing tools in support of the DevOps and Site Reliability functions
- This includes monitoring, metrics gathering, and dashboard displays. On-call rotation for delivering the industry leading Service Level Agreement levels to customers
Our take
Unity Technologies is one of the world's leading game engines. The platform helps artists and developers in gaming to render 3D worlds in real time.
In recent years Unity has expanded its scope by bringing its technology to new industries, including car companies, and film and TV studios who are using Unity to manage production virtually. Having completed an IPO in 2020, Unity’s capabilities are also being used by companies such as Apple and Android to create better AR experiences.
In 2021, 72% of the top 1000 mobile games and 50% of games across mobile, PC and console were made with Unity. The company operates on over 20 different platforms and is active in 190+ countries and territories across the world and continues to develop its technologies and capabilities.
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Insights
Few candidates hear
back within 2 weeks
4% employee growth in 12 months
Company
Funding (last 2 of 7 rounds)
May 2019
$125m
SERIES E
Jun 2018
$145m
SERIES D
Total funding: $893.5m
Company values
- Users first: We put users first… they are rock stars and we are their biggest fans. Our shared dedication to users holds us together, defines and aligns our work and drives us to deliver for them
- Best ideas win: We believe great ideas can come from anywhere. We have vigorous debates, we listen and learn, and we make sure the best ideas win. We care enough to go through the pain of messy conversations.
- In it together: We are Citizens of Unity. We act like owners. We’re activists; we have a voice and use it. We’re direct and candid, with good intent. We respect each other’s uniqueness and we’re in it together.
- Go bold: We do bold things. We go big and when we fail, we learn, get better and go big again. We challenge and elevate each other beyond our limits to do what may seem impossible. We stay curious and hungry
Company HQ
Yerba Buena, San Francisco, CA
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Leadership
John Riccitiello
(President & CEO)Previously served as CEO, COO and president of Electronic Arts, and co-founded private equity firm Elevation Partners in 2004. Has served on several company boards.
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