Staff Data Platform Engineer: Scale, Reliability, Impact

Unity; København; On-site; DKK 916,000 - 1,374,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Health insurance

Stock ownership

Retirement plans

Vacation and personal days

Parental leave

Commuting subsidy

Wellbeing programs

Employee resource groups

Privacy & security programs

Job summary

Unity is seeking a Staff Engineer, Data Platform to design, build, and scale the data infrastructure powering our Ads business and Unity Commons, the internal platform supporting teams across Unity.

You will work at the intersection of distributed systems, data engineering, and platform architecture, owning critical data platform capabilities that enable high-throughput, reliable, and trusted data flows across Unity's ecosystem.

Qualifications

• 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.

Responsibilities

• Own the design, build, and evolution of scalable platform services and backend systems.
• Work across distributed systems, data pipelines, cloud infrastructure, observability, reliability, automation, and developer experience.
• Partner with Ads, infrastructure, data, and product teams to deliver reusable solutions.
• Provide hands-on technical leadership for cross-functional initiatives spanning multiple systems.
• Contribute to platform patterns and engineering best practices for consistency and quality.

Skills

Distributed systems

Backend services

Data platforms

System design

Production operations

Apache Flink

Apache Paimon

Kafka

Spark

Kubernetes

ArgoCD

Terraform

Tools

Flink

Paimon

Kafka

Spark

Kubernetes

ArgoCD

Terraform

Job description

Unity is seeking a Staff Engineer, Data Platform to design, build, and scale the data infrastructure powering our Ads business and Unity Commons, the internal platform supporting teams across Unity.

You will work at the intersection of distributed systems, data engineering, and platform architecture, owning critical data platform capabilities that enable high-throughput, reliable, and trusted data flows across Unity's ecosystem.