Senior Media Software Developer

Unity Technologies; Toronto; On-site; CAD 90,000 - 120,000; Full time

Job summary

A leading technology company in Toronto is looking for a Media Engineer to maintain their complex media tech stack across supported platforms. The ideal candidate will have expertise in C, deep media domain skills, and experience with major platform media SDKs. This role involves collaborating with teams to deliver cross-platform media solutions and producing technical documentation. A commitment to excellence in media systems is essential. Relocation and visa sponsorship are not available for this position.

Benefits

Wide range of benefits for well-being

Support for work-life balance

Qualifications

• Drive delivery of cross-platform media systems; own architecture decisions.
• Experience with major platform media SDKs (mobile, desktop, consoles).
• Produce strategy docs and technical design docs.

Responsibilities

• Own and maintain a complex media tech stack across platforms.
• Refactor and modernize existing code and integrate third-party frameworks.
• Collaborate to turn customer needs into platform capabilities.

Skills

Expert in C

Deep media domain skills

Design extensible testable maintainable systems

C# interoperability

Tools

GStreamer

FFmpeg

Job description

The opportunity

Unity enables creators to ship to any device and media (audio and video) is core to that experience. The Media team is renewing our stack for extensibility and cross-platform parity while sustaining the reliability customers expect.

What you’ll be doing

• Own and maintain a complex media tech stack across Unity-supported platforms.
• Design and build hardware abstraction layers and cross-platform media APIs.
• Refactor and modernize existing code; integrate and evaluate third-party frameworks.
• Collaborate with Unity customers and internal authoring / runtime teams to turn needs into platform capabilities.

What we’re looking for

• Drive delivery of cross-platform media systems; own architecture decisions and customer impact.
• Expert in C (memory threading real-time perf profiling).
• Deep media domain skills (eg. containers / codecs streaming sync) and major platform media SDKs (mobile desktop consoles).
• Design extensible testable maintainable systems; reduce tech debt.
• Produce strategy docs / technical design docs; set / enforce non-functional requirements; align partner teams to ship.

You might also have

• C# interoperability
• Shipped media pipelines in Unity or comparable real-time engines at scale with measurable improvements to latency stability and parity.
• Led adoption or integration of open-source media frameworks (GStreamer FFmpeg).
• Expertise in GPU-accelerated media.
• Advanced audio experience : spatial audio DSP chains low-latency IO resampling and A / V sync across diverse platforms.
• Experience representing your organization with platform vendors or industry groups; negotiating SDK constraints and co-designing solutions.

Additional information

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

Life at Unity

We offer a wide range of benefits designed to support employees well-being and work-life balance. You can read more about them on our career page.

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 1000 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.

Employment Type: Full Time

Vacancy: 1