Staff Engineer, Data Platform

Unity Technologies SF • Mountain View, CA

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About The Position

Unity is seeking a Staff Engineer, Data Platform to build and scale the data infrastructure that powers its Ads business and Unity Commons, an internal platform supporting teams across the company. The role sits at the intersection of large-scale distributed systems, data engineering, and platform architecture. The engineer will own and evolve critical platform capabilities that support high-throughput, reliable, trusted data flows across Unity's advertising ecosystem and common internal services.

This is a senior individual-contributor position focused on complex platform problems, technical leadership, and systems serving multiple teams at scale. The role partners with engineers, product managers, data scientists, infrastructure teams, and downstream data consumers to deliver resilient, extensible platforms that are easy to adopt.

Requirements

• Extensive experience designing, building, and operating large-scale distributed systems, backend services, or data platforms in production environments.
• Strong backend and systems engineering skills, including service design, API design, system integration, debugging, and production operations.
• Deep understanding of distributed systems fundamentals, including scalability, reliability, fault tolerance, performance, consistency, and operational trade-offs.
• Experience building shared platforms, internal systems, or self-service infrastructure that supports multiple engineering teams.
• Ability to quickly understand complex existing systems, identify leverage points, and lead pragmatic improvements.
• Sufficient knowledge of English for professional verbal and written communication with colleagues and partners worldwide.

Nice To Haves

• Experience supporting data-intensive platforms or systems, including pipelines, streaming systems, storage layers, or analytics infrastructure.
• Hands-on exposure to technologies such as Apache Flink, Apache Paimon, Kafka, Spark, Kubernetes, ArgoCD, or Terraform.
• Experience in advertising technology, gaming, monetization, marketplaces, or high-scale consumer platforms.

Responsibilities

• Own the design, build, and evolution of scalable platform services, backend systems, and self-service tooling used across Unity.
• Work across distributed systems, data pipelines, cloud infrastructure, observability, reliability, automation, and developer experience.
• Partner with engineering teams across Ads, infrastructure, data, and product to identify shared needs and deliver reusable, high-leverage solutions.
• Provide hands-on technical leadership for ambiguous, cross-functional initiatives spanning multiple systems and teams.
• Contribute to platform patterns, technical standards, and engineering best practices that improve organizational consistency and quality.

Benefits

• Comprehensive health, life, and disability insurance
• Commute subsidy
• Employee stock ownership
• Competitive retirement or pension plans
• Generous vacation and personal days
• Leave and family-care programs supporting new parents
• 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
• Potential eligibility for equity awards and company incentive plans, such as annual discretionary bonuses or sales commissions

What This Job Offers

• Job Type: Full-time
• Career Level: Senior
• Education Level: No Education Listed